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Deputy Minister of Correctional Services, Hlengiwe Mkhize, is to take a project which focuses on the well-being and protection of children behind bars to the Limpopo province on Friday.
President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday officially appointed several new judges to South Africa's courts.
President Jacob Zuma has appointed Advocate Menzi Simelane as the National Director for Public Prosecutions.
Progressive Women's Movement of South Africa (PWMSA) Convener, Baleka Mbete, has called on families to stop protecting abusers of women and children.
President Jacob Zuma has named the three-person facilitation support team to work on helping the Zimbabwean political parties iron out problems affecting government operations.
Zanoxolo Wayile has been appointed to serve as the new Mayor for the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape.
In support of the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children Campaign, the South African Navy members will on Thursday march in the City of Tshwane.
Deputy Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Rejoice Mabudafhasi, has launched a R25 million Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) that not only promotes jobs and training but energy efficiency adaptation as well.
Durban's R3.1 billion Moses Mabhida Stadium is complete and ready to host the world's football stars and thousands of fans who are expected to descend on the city for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
The Consumer Price Index for October 2009 fell within the South African Reserve Bank's (SARB) inflation target range at 5.9 percent, reported Statistics South Africa (Stats SA).
The re-established environmental courts, which aim to improve the conviction of environmental crime, are expected to be up and running in the next six months.
The possibility of a disaster during the World Cup is far greater than for any previous international sporting event in South Africa, says Dr Wayne Smith, the head of the Western Cape's 2010 health planning unit.
The Western Cape provincial parliament has asked the provincial government to probe allegations that an ANC councillor instigated the xenophobic attacks in De Doorns last week, which saw 2 500 Zimbabweans displaced.
The former partner of ANC spy and arms-deal whistle-blower Bheki Jacobs, who died of renal cancer last year, is contesting a will that Jacobs made three weeks before his death on the basis that he was not of sound mind when he signed it.
A Mitchells Plain mother said goodbye to her eight-year-old son during an emotional memorial service held at the boy's primary school on Tuesday.
The city has found a unique weapon in its fight against prostitution - a former brothel owner who last hit the headlines when she took her attempts to have prostitution legalised all the way to the Constitutional Court.
FIRSTRAND , one of SA's big five banking and financial services groups, said spin-offs from the unwinding of the economic downturn would drive its earnings into the 2011 financial year, particularly in an improvement in nonperforming loans.
MURRAY & Roberts yesterday masked its dismay at announcing an expected fall in earnings in the six months to December by assuring shareholders of a robust order book and said that its international business was showing signs of life after being knocked down by the effects of the global recession.
QUANTUM Property Group , which listed on the JSE's AltX board last October, exceeded its prelisting forecasts in its maiden annual results.
MASSMART, the owner of Game, Builders Warehouse and Makro retail chains, warned yesterday that profit for the six months to December would come in below last year's level.
JUNIOR miner Central Rand Gold (CRG) said yesterday the Financial Services Board (FSB) had rejected a complaint by its 26% empowerment partner, Puno Gold Investments, that CRG had issued false information to its investors.
TRANSNET announced yesterday it had secured a R2,2bn untied loan from a French development bank to partly fund the expansion of its container terminal in Cape Town and hinted that its multi- billion-rand investment plan might increase 10% over the next five years.
SASOL, Statoil of Norway and US- based Chesapeake Energy have made a joint application for onshore petroleum exploration rights in SA.
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SOCCEREX CEO Duncan Revie yesterday directed a salvo at his fellow citizens and said he could not understand why the British were seemingly hellbent on painting a negative image of SA ahead of next year's Soccer World Cup.
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