South Africa

Pretoria - Ahead of the Grade 12 final National Senior Certificate examination this morning, learners looked relaxed as they entered their school premises.

Polokwane - Limpopo police are offering a R200 000 reward for information that can lead to the arrest of those who murdered Member of Parliament Lekoba Jack Tolo.

Johannesburg - South Africa needs to become more energy efficient if it is to meet industrialisation pressures.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has expressed his "deepest sympathy and condolences" to the people and Government of Turkey after a devastating earthquake that struck the eastern part of the country on Sunday.

Pretoria - Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele has called for every bus and taxi on the country's roads to be stopped and checked following two accidents that claimed the lives of 16 people on Tuesday.

Pretoria - The school principal at Adam Masebe in Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, is confident that the matric pass rate at his school will be higher than that of last year.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has wished the Muslim community a happy Eid ul-Fitr.

Pretoria - The National Development Plan (NDP), which charts a 20-year path towards achieving a better life for all South Africans, is now available in all eleven official languages.

Durban - If you want to find out what the South African government, NGOs and private sector are doing about climate change - visit the South Africa Climate Change Response (SACCR) Expo in Durban.

Pretoria - Job creation and the boosting of the local South African manufacturing sector are at the top of the agenda for the Request for Proposals [RFP] to procure renewable power producers.

Pretoria - Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele has ordered the South African National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) to halt all processes linked to the new toll gate system on the country's major roads.

Pretoria - Chief of the South African Navy, Admiral Refiloe Mudimu, today called on women to seize opportunities and not be spectators.

Durban - The concerns of farmers in the southern African region must become a part of the United Nations' climate change agenda.

Pretoria - Teenage pregnancies have seen a slight drop in Gauteng.

Pretoria - International Relations and Cooperation Deputy Minister Ebrahim Ebrahim will host his Belarusian counterpart, Sergei Aleinik, for political consultations in Cape Town on Wednesday.