South Africa

Cape Town - The South African Maritime Safety Authority (Samsa) has honoured brave and hard-working seafarers who rode the high seas to keep global trade going.

Pretoria - In an effort to protect victims of abuse, the Gauteng Department of Health and Social Development has provided funding to 23 shelters for abused women in the 2010/2011 financial year.

Durban - Durban is now ready to welcome over 15 000 delegates, more than 10 000 observer, from over 190 countries for the COP17, says Ethekwini Municipality mayor James Nxumalo.

Pretoria - South Africa is a free country and continues to build a united, democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and a prosperous future, says Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe.

Durban - Not even rainy weather could dampen government's ten day countdown celebrations to the COP17 at Wadley Stadium in Pietermaritzburg on Saturday.

Durban - A booklet, among other publications, will be launched during COP17 to highlight the city's mitigation- and adaptation-focused interventions.

Pretoria - Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele has called for the driver of the vehicle that mowed down six joggers, killing five of them, in Johannesburg on Saturday to be charged with murder.

Pretoria - Public Service and Administration Minister Richard Baloyi says government has always been i

Pretoria - Although South Africa can learn from Japan's Fukushima incident, the country's nuclear installations can withstand natural events, the National Nuclear Regulator said on Thursday.

Cape Town - The wait is finally over for the Class of 2011, as matriculants sit for their first written examination this morning.

Pretoria - The Department of Energy has released for public comment regulations that provide for an al

Pretoria - The decision by bank rating agency Moody's Investor service to downgrade the stability rating of South African banks from "stable" to "negative" demonstrated the "superficial" way in which world rating agencies tend to conduct their assessments, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said.

Pretoria - A bit nervous but confident - that was the general feeling of matric pupils at Hoerskool Waterkloof as they prepared to write English Paper 1 on Monday.

Bloemfontein - People living with disabilities say they would much rather be employed and earn money instead of living off hand-outs and government's disability grant.

Mthatha - President Jacob Zuma swapped his suit for a set of overalls during the launch of a rural development initiative in the Eastern Cape this weekend.