Pretoria - A North West farmworker, who was buried by the side of the road after his employer refused his family members entry to the farm property, was today - on national Human Rights Day - given a dignified service and reburied at a Potchefstroom graveyard, more than 13 years after his death.
Pretoria - Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) says it has visited more than 2 500 households for its Income and Expenditure Survey (IES) currently underway.
Mbombela - The Mpumalanga Education Department has warned school principals and managers to be on the lookout for a fraudster who masquerades as a provincial government official sent to give computers to schools.
Pretoria - Telkom has appointed Jeffrey Hedberg to head its subsidiary in Nigeria.
Pretoria - Deputy Minister of Public Works, Hendrietta Bogane-Zulu, says government will intervene if the need arises in negotiations to end the strike in the construction industry.
Nelspruit - Mpumalanga's 2010 community has been paid over R8 million for the land on which the provincial R1 billion 2010 stadium is being built.
Pretoria - The country's top judges say they welcome the commitment made by government to support the judiciary in the fulfillment of its constitutional obligations.
Cape Town - Acting President Kgalema Motlanthe has urged South Africans to lend a helping hand to those who are less fortunate in their respective communities on Madiba Day, 18 July.
Parliament - Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan presented the Appropriation Bill to the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) on Wednesday.
Bhisho - Hundreds of people living in rural parts of the Eastern Cape have been given information on housing programmes available by the Department of Human Settlements through a pilot project.
Mbombela - Mpumalanga MEC for Economic Development, Environment and Tourism Norman Mokoena has called for harsher action against rhino poachers.
Cape Town - South Africans have until the end of this month to nominate members to serve on the new South African Broadcasting Corporation's (SABC) board.
Nelspruit - Fifteen more schools in Mpumalanga are to benefit from an initiative enabling children from different schools to be taught maths and science at the same time.
Italy - Leaders from the Group of Eight (G8) major industrialised countries agreed on Wednesday to limit global warming to within two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, but lowered their target of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Johannesburg - Minister of Labour, Membathisi Mdladlana, and the 2010 Local Organising Committee are to meet with unions representing striking construction workers this morning.
