South Africa

Cape Town - A fund for women's empowerment is to be established to enable women to start and develop their own businesses.

Cape Town - The success of the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) lies in the collective hands of the nation, says Minister for Performance, Monitoring and Evaluation in the Presidency, Collins Chabane.

Pretoria - Six sites in Sharpeville are to be declared heritage sites on Monday, as the country marks national Human Rights Day.

Pretoria - Mineral Resources Director General Adv Sandile Nogxina is expected to mark the start of construction of a R6.3 million home for people with disability at Kwanzimakwe in Port Edward, KwaZulu-Natal on Friday by conducting a sod turning ceremony.

Pretoria - As schools across the country opened for the third term this morning, the Department of Health said it was on standby to help them deal with any cases of the H1N1 influenza virus, or swine flu.

Cabinet held its ordinary meeting in Cape Town, on 16 March 2011.

Pretoria - The Department of Co-Operative Governance and Traditional Affairs is in the process of initiating further consultations with the communities of Matatiele and Moutse in Limpopo to assist government in the re-determination of their borders.

Pretoria - Nombulelo Moholi is to head up telecommunications company Telkom as its new Group Chief Executive Officer.

Johannesburg - The application process for the 2010 FIFA World Cup volunteer programme is now open.

Rustenburg - Minister of Mineral Resources Susan Shabangu has expressed shock and deep regret at the death of miners at Impala Platinum's Rustenburg mine

Pretoria - South Africa's new radio telescope in the Karoo has reached an important milestone with the installation of the first telescope dish near Carnarvon in the Northern Cape.

Bloemfontein - Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma has affirmed that many changes still need to take place for citizens to receive quality services from the department.

Thokoza - Ekurhuleni Mayor, Ntombi Mekgwe, is expected to engage with the Thokoza community to discuss the violence which broke out there, on Tuesday.

Pretoria - Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Buyelwa Sonjica, has launched an investigation into the financial administration of her department.

Johannesburg - Set Top Boxes (STBs), which are to be used as part of the Broadcasting Digital Migration (BDM) process, are likely to be available at retail stores during the first half of 2010.