Pretoria - As Libya's political uprising continues to gain momentum, with more than 1 000 people reportedly killed, the country's Ambassador to South Africa Abdallah Alzubedi on Monday refused to bow to pressure for him to resign.
Pretoria - South African Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe will lead a delegation to the United Nations high-level meeting on HIV/Aids scheduled to take place on 8 - 10 June 2011 in New York.
Pretoria - Libya's leader, Muammar Gaddafi's rule, seems to be hanging by a thread. The wave of revolts that have engulfed North Africa in recent weeks, has now thrown the region's biggest oil power into turmoil, threatening to end Gaddafi's 41 years in power.
Pretoria - Police cooperation between South Africa and Vietnam has been strengthened after Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa and Public Security Minister of Vietnam, General Le Hong Anh, met in Pretoria on Monday.
Pretoria - Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has arrived in New York to attend the United Nations high-level meeting on HIV/Aids.
Pretoria - A government delegation left for the United Kingdom on Wednesday, as part of strengthening political and bilateral relations between the two countries.
Pretoria - National Planning Minister Trevor Manuel on Friday announced that he wasn't a candidate for the top job at the International Monetary Fund.
Athens - A final agreement on the terms of the release of a second aid package to Greece is close, but the debt-laden country needs to step up structural reforms to overcome the crisis, International Monetary Fund (IMF) official, Poul Thomsen, said on Wednesday.
Pretoria - South Africa will show its support for initiatives to stop desertification on June 17 when it commemorates World Day to Combat Desertification (WDCD).
Pretoria - South Africa says it is impressed with progress being made at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany.
