South Africa

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has pinned his hopes on the upcoming African Union meeting in Ethiopia next week to defuse the unfolding political crisis in Cote d'Ivoire.

Pretoria - Ekurhuleni municipality residents will now be able to buy pre-paid electricity using their cell phones, ATMS or the internet, the municipality said on Tuesday.

Pretoria - Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, has launched a partnership framework to regulate funds from donors, development partners and ambassadors to ensure they are channeled to government's priority areas.

Ermelo - The Mpumalanga Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) has condemned the violent protests in the Msukaligwa local municipality.

Durban - KwaZulu-Natal commemorated the Battle of Isandlwana on Saturday with a state visit from Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni.

Durban - All eyes will be on Centurion on Sunday when India and South Africa battle for glory in the final one-day international after the Proteas levelled the series in Port Elizabeth.

Mbombela - Twelve investigators from across the country have been tasked with investigating a string of what may be politically-motivated murders in Mpumalanga.

Pretoria - Close to R1 million has been stolen from the public through fraudsters using bogus paperwork in the past year, said the Department of Public Works.

Pretoria - Ekurhuleni Metro has rejected accusations of unfair dismissal of seven municipal employees.

Pretoria - The National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) has urged young people to come in their numbers to register to vote in the upcoming local government elections.

Cape Town - The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) has committed R25 billion to new investments in the green economy over the next five years.

Pretoria - Border control and migratory flows will be top of the agenda when Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma hosts United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants, Jorge Bustamante.

Pretoria - Home Affairs has shown its commitment to heed President Jacob Zuma's call to make 2011 the Year of Jobs.

Khartoum - The South Sudan Referendum Commission (SSRC) on Sunday said around 99 percent of southern Sudanese had voted for the region's separation from the north, according to primary results of the South Sudan referendum.

Cape Town - Fierce arguments on government's employment targets, poverty alleviation and service delivery took centre stage as political parties debated President Jacob Zuma's State of the Nation Address in Parliament on Tuesday.