South Africa

Johannesburg - African countries need to tighten their road traffic enforcement laws or risk losing more lives in avoidable road crashes.

Polokwane - Deputy Minister of Justice Andries Nel has assured Polokwane residents that legal documents, which were damaged in a fire at the Polokwane Magistrate's Court in Limpopo, will be reconstructed and that no suspects will go free without standing trial.

Pretoria - Details on government's planned infrastructure development, South Africa's credit rating and growth forecast are some of the issues business hopes to gain clarity on when Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan tables the 2012 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) tomorrow.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma, who is the Commander-in-Chief of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), will on Saturday bestow medals on military veterans who have distinguished themselves in various capacities prior to 1994 in the quest to see the dawn of democracy in SA.

Pretoria - A total of 182 083 physical science learners are expected to sit for the three-hour Physical Science Paper 1, which will be written nationally on Thursday.

Pretoria - Communications Minister Dina Pule has thanked the outgoing members of the Telkom Board of Directors for their contribution in turning around Telkom and for their service to the country.

Mbombela - Officials from the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) will from Friday be touring Mpumalanga to explain the Madiba banknotes series to the public.

Pretoria - The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose to 5.5% in September, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said on Wednesday.

Pretoria - The ability for mobile technology to solve major social problems in Africa is unprecedented, says Communication Minister Dina Pule.

Pretoria - Higher Education and Training Minister Dr Blade Nzimande has warned that the graduate output targets in the human health scarce skills field will not be met by 2014 with the current rate of medical professionals produced by training institutions.

Cape Town - Kenya's Minister of Gender, Children and Social Development Naomi Shaban has praised South Africa's success in tackling HIV and bringing down its mother-to-child infection rate.

Johannesburg - Power parastatal Eskom has asked the National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) for a total 16% tariff increase over the next five years.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has conveyed his deepest condolences to the family and friends of renowned photographer Alfred Kumalo, who passed away at the weekend.

Siyabuswa - Matrics at one Mpumalanga school in Siyabuswa, near KwaMhlanga, appear confident they will achieve good marks for their first English exam, which they wrote this morning.

Cape Town - Tax revenue grew by R68.5 billion in the last financial year - to total R742.6 billion - R3.9 billion more than forecast by the Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan when he presented his 2012 Budget in February, the South African Revenue Service (Sars) said on Monday.