Special Features

The inauguration of South Africa's fifth democratically elected President will take place at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Saturday, 24 May.

Freedom Day on 27 April is an annual celebration of South Africa's first non-racial democratic elections of 1994.

The Department of Health is embarking in a massive campaign to provide the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine among school-going girls 9 and 10 in grade 4.

Human Rights Month is commemorated in March to remind South Africans about the sacrifices that accompanied the struggle for the attainment of democracy in SA.

President Jacob Zuma will deliver his State of the Nation Address to Parliament on Thursday, 13 February 2014.

CHAN 2014 is being hosted in South Africa from 11 January to 1 February 2014

The world pays tribute to Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, South Africa's first democratically President

SA observes 16 Days of Activism campaign from 25 November - 10 December

South Africa celebrates National Disability Rights Awareness Month

South Africans voted in the general election on 7 May 2014.