South Africa

Pretoria - Labour unions and government are expected to return to the negotiations table tomorrow, after wage talks deadlocked on 14 June.

Pretoria - Visa and South African Tourism (SA Tourism) have signed an agreement that will see the two organisations working closely together to promote the country's tourist attractions to an international audience.

Pretoria - The Presidency has urged Western Cape Premier Helen Zille to work with her colleagues, the ministers in the relevant portfolios, to discuss the assistance she needs to resolve the strikes by farmworkers in the province.

Pretoria - The South African Football Association (Safa) has condemned in the strongest terms the attack on the Zambian national team after the Nelson Mandela Challenge match with Bafana Bafana at Soccer City on Wednesday night.

Pretoria - More than 350 persons with disabilities in the North West will get an opportunity to raise issues affecting them when the North West Provincial Legislature hosts the annual Persons with Disability Parliament on Fri

Pretoria - November 5 will always occupy a place of special prominence in the history of South Africa's quest to secure the stability of energy supply in the country, especially as it forges ahead with its massive infrastructure build programme.

Pretoria - The Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) trophy tour will take place in Port Elizabeth on Saturday in a bid to spread the Afcon fever and generate enthusiasm in the area.

Cape Town - Farmworkers in the Western Cape are expected to return to work today after government on Wednesday announced that worker groups and labour unions had suspended their strike.

Pretoria - Advocate Willem Heath has resigned as head of the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), Justice Minister Jeff Radebe said on Thursday.

Durban - Global temperatures in 2011 are currently the tenth highest on record since 1850 when records were first kept, a report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) revealed today.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has urged all South Africans to put their differences aside for the greater good of the country.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has opened a road linking the Voortrekker Monument and Freedom Park in Pretoria to mark Reconciliation Day.

Pretoria - The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory on Monday joined millions of South Africans in expressing their deepest condolences to the family of the late Judge Fikile Bam.

Pretoria - Although 2011 was a challenging year, government has made strides in creating and maintaining a better life for all, President Jacob Zuma said on Sunday.

Pyongyang - Kim Jong-il, the top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), passed away on Saturday at the age of 69 "from a great mental and physical strain", the country's official KCNA news agency reported on Monday.