South Africa

Durban - The lives of rural women in some parts of KwaZulu-Natal are changing for the better now that their arts and crafts are being properly marketed and sold.

Pretoria-The robust engagement on the Green Paper on Land Reform will be completed before the end of March.

Pretoria - The Free State Department of Education has urged parents, educators and learners to participate in the upcoming provincial School Governing Body (SGB) elections set to take place in March.

Pretoria - A 39-year-old biker, who was arrested clocking 226km/h in a 120km/h zone along the N14 in the North West on Monday, will today appear before the Vryburg Magistrate Court for reckless driving.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has, on behalf of government and the ANC, extended condolences to the family of the late Winkie Direko.

Pretoria - Match tickets for the international friendly match between Bafana Bafana and Senegal are on sale at Computicket outlets, Shoprite and Shoprite Checkers stores around the country.

Pretoria - The Gauteng Provincial Government is to focus its attention on accelerating service delivery in 2012, says Gauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane.

Thohoyandou - A group of Limpopo women who have been volunteering to clean natural springs in their village may soon have a lucrative business.

Pretoria - The Department of Trade and Industry (dti) is in the process of bolstering support to co-operatives by establishing a Co-operative Development Agency and Co-operatives Tribunal.

Cape Town - South Africa wants to learn how Oman has been able to protect its coastline, given the threat of piracy in the Mozambican Channel, the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Lindiwe Sisulu said today after the signing of a defence co-operation memorandum with Oman's Minister of Defence Sayyid bin Saud bin Harib al-Busaidi.

Pretoria - The Public Service and Administration Department (DPSA) today hosted an empowerment workshop to encourage Community Development Workers (CDWs) to continue to serve their communities while also arming themselves with knowledge.

Pretoria - SizweNtsalubaGobodo has been appointed as the first locally grown and black-owned firm to handle the audit account of Transnet, says Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba.

Ludondolo - President Jacob Zuma has honoured the first democratically elected President, Nelson Mandela, by unveiling the construction of the Nelson Mandela Legacy Bridge, which will link Ludondolo village with Mandela's birthplace of Mvezo in the Eastern Cape.

Pretoria - The Gauteng Department of Labour, together with its counterpart in health, is offering hundreds of unemployed residents the opportunity to sign up for nursing courses.

Mamelodi - Gauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane has described education in the province as a major success story.