IEC confident of high voter turnout
Pretoria - The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) is confident more than 80 percent of those who have registered will make their way to the voting stations to cast their vote on Wednesday.
Pretoria - The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) is confident more than 80 percent of those who have registered will make their way to the voting stations to cast their vote on Wednesday.
Cape Town - New and old Members of Parliament are making a steady flow to the Old Assembly Wing to register ahead of Wednesday's first sitting of the National Assembly.
Pretoria - Members of the South African Police Service are expected to be on duty at tomorrow's polls despite allegations that police members would go on strike due to overtime payments.
Cape Town - Government is working hard to deliver on its promise to create 500 000 work opportunities by the end of the year.
Pretoria - Southern African Heads of Corrections and Prisons are committed to finding creative solutions to address challenges facing corrections and prisons in the region.
Pretoria - Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe is in the US on a four day working visit.
Table Bay - A hostage drama outside the Table Bay harbour on Tuesday morning led to the arrest of 10 crew members who were holding a Taiwanese fishing vessel captain and his officer hostage.
Pretoria – Minister in the Presidency for Performance Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME), Collins Chabane and Public Service and Administration Minister Lindiwe Sisulu have noted the release of the Auditor General’s report.
Cape Town - The number of people living in poverty has declined between 1999 and 2007, putting the country in good stead to meet its 2014 target of halving poverty.
Atamelang - Special voters in Tswaing who are physically unable to get to a polling station have expressed there gratitude for the opportunity to cast a vote in South Africa's General Elections.
Pretoria - South African's unemployment rate increased to 23.5 percent in the first quarter of 2009 from 21.9 percent recorded in the last quarter of 2008.
New York - The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, known as MONUC, has freed nearly two dozen children from the ranks of the country's armed forces this week.
The technology the Independent Electoral Commission has employed for the 2009 General Elections will ensure transparency, writes Chris Bathembu.
Pretoria - There's an air of excitement as the country awaits the election of the new President of the Republic by members of the National Assembly in Parliament tomorrow.
Pretoria - The enthusiasm showed by South Africans ahead of Wednesday's fourth democratic election is a sign of a mature democracy.