Bela Bela - Government is satisfied with the progress made across its five key priority areas, namely health, education, rural development, job creation as well as safety and crime prevention, Collins Chabane, the Minister in the Presidency responsible for Performance Monitoring and Evaluation said on Friday.
Komatipoort - A Mpumalanga orphan who grew up in a child-headed family has proven that hard work pays off after producing six distinctions in the 2011 matric exams.
Mbombela - Residents of Nsikazi outside Mbombela, Mpumalanga, were left without tap water this weekend after the raw water pumps along the Crocodile and Sabie Rivers were flooded during heavy rains.
Garissa - Security forces are on high alert in northern Kenya over an imminent suicide bomb attack by members of the Al-Shabaab group from neighbouring Somalia.
Johannesburg - Defence and Military Veterans Minister, Lindiwe Sisulu, has described allegations that South Africa was to procure a warship as wrong, unfair and unethical.
Johannesburg - The Gauteng Department of Health and Social Development paid almost R300 million to health contractors and suppliers in December.
Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has expressed his condolences to the government and people of Guinea-Bissau following the passing of its President Malam Bacai Sanha.
Pretoria - South Africans have been urged to use electricity sparingly and switch of all non-essential appliances as Eskom warns of possible electricity load-shedding that could last until March.
Pretoria - A parent was killed and at least 10 others injured on Tuesday morning when a stampede occurred outside the University of Johannesburg's Auckland Park campus.
Lagos - Business activities in Nigeria have ground to a halt as the indefinite strike called by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and civil society groups began Monday, with banks, shops, offices, hospitals and markets closed.
Pretoria - Government has appealed to South Africans to refrain from buying land from bogus sellers as they will not only lose their money, but they could be evicted and charged for illegally occupying the land.
Pretoria - Police will arrest anyone found running bogus educational institutions, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa has warned.
Mbombela - The Mpumalanga provincial government has started mop-up operations and repairing damaged infrastructure after heavy rains wreaked havoc in the Lowveld last week.
Pretoria - The silver BMW 5-series reported by the City Press to have run up a heap of traffic fines does not belong to Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele, his office said today.
Johannesburg - The Gauteng Provincial Government says it has put in place measures to ensure the correct spending of public monies.
