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President Jacob Zuma is expected to host King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway in Pretoria on Tuesday.
A Water Indaba in the Western Cape is to help develop an action plan to fast track water service delivery in the province, among others.
Members of the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council are due to arrive in Khartoum on Monday for a briefing on the situation in Sudan.
Imizamo Yethu's police station commissioner says that locals who tore down a Malawian man's shack after he was accused of raping a toddler were acting out of anger and were not motivated by xenophobia.
A Durban man who was rescued after spending more than a day lost in the mountains above Simon's Town got the chance to meet his saviour yesterday - and to give the plucky hero, a dog named Luke, a grateful pat.
The Democratic Party (DP) spokesperson, Ms Betty Nambooze, who was recently referred to a South African hospital, is steadily recovering from complicated illness, party President John Ssebaana Kizito has said.
African Bank Investments Limited reports Headline Earnings Per Share down by 11%, and dividends down by 12% to 185c.
African Media Entertainment , owners of Algoa FM, and OFM report an increase in revenue to R75.3 million, and headline earnings per share of 119c.
South Africa's Media24 has increased its presence in Kenya's publishing industry with the takeover of East Africa Magazines, the publisher of True Love, Drum and Move! magazines.
South African Airways (SAA), has introduced a promotional fare of $311 (N46, 650) for its economy class passengers on the Lagos-Johannesburg-Lagos route to mark 11 years of flight operations in Nigeria.
Today marks the start of a 10-day door-to-door campaign to educate Gauteng communities about HIV and AIDS.
Laura Meads is slim, sexy and very feminine. It's almost impossible to believe she was born a boy.
Gauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane is in Europe to promote the province and strengthen ties with its foreign partners.
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe is satisfied with the positive results yielded by government's poverty alleviation project in southern Free State.
South Africa will participate in the second Korea-Africa Forum which will explore ways to strengthen ties on development and cooperation between Korea and the African continent.
Minister of Transport Sibusiso Ndebele has called for a global partnership in the fight against road deaths in Africa and the world.
It is unacceptable that most rural communities still do not have access to clean water, says President Jacob Zuma.
Following mediation between Government and former National Director of Public Prosecutions Vusi Pikoli, the parties have today (21 November 2009) reached an out-of-court settlement regarding the pending litigation brought by Mr Pikoli.
AS WE said in an editorial the other day, Public Enterprises Minister Barbara Hogan is on a hiding to nothing. It is hard to think of a single decision she might make or not make that would satisfy everyone, or even her own Cabinet. The way she gets out of that bind is just to make decisions, as best as she can.
THIS week's gross domestic product (GDP) data should show that the recession is over, with GDP registering very marginally in the black.
LIKE all organisations gripped by bureaucratic malaise, the African National Congress (ANC) is resorting to language that obfuscates, rather than elucidates.
MVELAPHANDA Group said on Friday it had abandoned an idea to form a management company to oversee the unbundling of its assets, which would have seen three of its top executives benefit from the proceeds.
RUGBY World Cup-winning Springbok assistant coach and newly appointed Stormers head coach, Allister Coetzee, yesterday warned the national team that the scrums will be one of the most important aspects of the game when they take on Ireland on Saturday.
Mvela Group announced in September that it was unbundling it's shareholding in Life Healthcare.
AFTER five days, four thick texts and a crash course in Marx, t he Young Communist League (YCL) concluded its latest "political school" on Friday, unmoved by this month's 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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