South Africa

Johannesburg - SANAC Deputy Chairperson Mark Heywood said more transparency and open dialogue is needed to improve issues of stigmatisation around testing for HIV.

Soweto - Matric pupils in some of the underperforming schools in Soweto are hopeful that they have done well in their English Paper 1.

Pretoria - The launch of taxi body Santaco's airline will open up air travel to many people who have n

Johannesburg - Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini has challenged society to be tolerant and wage a fight against discrimination across all genders.

Pretoria - Unemployment among the educated is increasingly becoming a phenomenon, says a report released recently by the Department of Labour.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has appointed new judges for the Supreme Court of Appeal and various other High Courts in the country.

Cape Town - Matrics in Cape Town have told Western Cape Department of Education MEC Donald Grant that the first written matric exam this morning was fair and covered the sections of the syllabus they had studied.

Pretoria - Marius Fransman, the Deputy Minister of International Relations, is to represent South Africa at the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Extraordinary Council of Ministers meeting this week.

Pretoria - Food security and climate change will take centre stage when President Jacob Zuma leads a delegation to the Commonwealth Heads of State and Government Meeting (CHOGM) this week.

Johannesburg - Experts at the African Energy Ministers Conference say climate change cannot be tackled

Pretoria - A family of four, including a one-year-old girl and three-year-old boy, were killed in a ho

Cape Town - Online gambling remains illegal in South Africa and banks could question those South Africans that netted winnings from internet gambling sites, the Minister of Trade and Industry Rob Davies warned today.

Skukuza - The poisoning of rhino horns in a bid to fight rhino poaching will never work in the Kruger

Special announcements by President Zuma

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has appointed a commission of inquiry to investigate allegations of wr