Pretoria - The African Union (AU) has appointed former President Thabo Mbeki to chair a committee to investigate human rights violations in Darfur as well as mediate between the ICC and Sudan.
Harare - Susan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's wife, is to be buried in her rural hometown of Buhera on Wednesday.
Pretoria - To help accelerate household targeting and indigent support initiatives, government has developed and implemented the Credible Indigent Policy Assessment Framework.
Parliament - The Department of Housing has made significant progress towards housing delivery by building more than 2.6 million houses for more than 14 million needy households since 1994.
Nelspruit - Mpumalanga's new road signs, which forms part of the province's R160 million upgrade of roads, is to ease confusion for visitors during the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Pretoria – The Department of Public Works is pulling out all the stops to stamp out corruption and at the same time rebuild its image.
Pretoria - The number of reported cases of cholera was declining, the Minister for Health Barbara Hogan said on Monday.
Pretoria - Metrorail has warned unruly commuters that it will suspend its services at the Pienaarspoort train station between Mamelodi and Pretoria if the violence on the route does not end.
Parliament - Government and its social partners are considering various interventions which can help minimise the impact of the global economic crisis on the country.
Pretoria - Government has increased the age of its child support grant beneficiaries to 15 years, in an attempt to reach more vulnerable children.
Parliament - The 2010 FIFA World Cup to be hosted in South Africa should be used as a catalyst to shift perceptions about the country and the rest of the African continent, says President Kgalema Motlanthe.
Pretoria - The South African government is in the process of trying to establish if a South African was among the seven people killed in a plane crash in Uganda on Monday.
Johannesburg - Metrobus drivers are being offered customer service training sessions as part of Public Transport Month, which is held nationwide each October.
Pretoria - Despite the fact that many countries have developed national legislation to address the scourge of violence against women and children, the levels of gender-based violence are still unacceptable high.
Johannesburg - The South African Revenue Services (SARS) on Wednesday unveiled a string of new administrative penalties in a bid to crack down on non-compliant tax payers.
The penalties come into effect on 23 November 2009.
