South Africa

Pretoria - Ivory Coast head coach Vahid Halilhodzic has been sacked just 101 days before the 2010 FIFA World Cup kick off.

Rustenburg - Excitement is mounting in the North West and countrywide ahead of 100-days count down to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Pretoria - The South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) has suspended the certificates of airworthiness for 14 SA Airlink Jetstream aircraft.

Pretoria - Motorists are advised that toll fees across the country have gone up as of Monday 1 March 2010.

Pretoria - Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele has expressed disappointment at the incident involving an SA Airlink aircraft.

Cape Town - President Jacob Zuma says state-owned enterprises like Eskom are so riddled with problems that a serious review of the parastastals is necessary.

Pretoria - Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele has warned that motorists who break the law "will be caught and face the full might of the law".

Pretoria-President Jacob Zuma is to host a party for orphans and children, said the Presidency on Monday

Pretoria - International Relations and Co-operation Minister Maite Nkoana Mashabane has expressed condolences following the death of anti-apartheid activist Professor Dennis Brutus.

Pretoria - Durban has promised delegates attending the 100 days countdown to the 2010 FIFA World Cup, "the best celebration event ever".

Pretoria - About 170 disadvantaged learners from the Eastern Cape were overjoyed as they tried on their new school uniforms on Monday.

Pretoria - Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan will on Wednesday deliver his maiden Budget Speech amid circumstances dictated to by an unfavourable economic climate

Pretoria - South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) investigators are planning on recovering the wreckage of the airplane that crashed in Harrismith in the Free State.

Cape Town - Eskom has recruited about 5000 unskilled workers from the town of Lephalale in the construction of its Medupi power station in Limpopo, says Minister of Public Enterprises Barbara Hogan.

Cape Town - There is no maintenance backlog on South Africa's national road network, says Minister of Transport S'bu Ndebele.