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The Transport Department is gearing up for a series of safety campaigns ahead of the busiest period on South Africa's roads during the festive season.
This year's edition of Soccerex, arguably the biggest business convention for the global football community, has wrapped up in Johannesburg.
Government is looking at integrating its existing call centres to reduce the load on the Presidential Hotline. Since its launch, the Presidential Hotline has been inundated with calls, making the load heavy to deal with.
In an effort to raise awareness and prevent crashes between motorists and trains, stakeholders in the railway sector are to launch the 2009 Festive Season Safety Awareness Campaign on Thursday.
South Africa has been re-elected to sit on the International Organisation on Migration's (IOM) Executive Committee.
The Department of Home Affairs has introduced an Advanced Passenger Processing (APP) system to closely monitor the entry of soccer hooligans into the country for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
The Angolan minister of Social Welfare, João Baptista Kussumua, said Monday in Sumbe, central Kwanza Sul province, it is not the government's intention to institutionalise the elderly but instead to raise the society's awareness to keep them within the family.
A cycle of talks, cleaning campaigns, cultural and sports activities marks in Chivaulo, Andulo district, Bié province, the opening of the commemorations of the 53rd anniversary of the ruling MPLA party, December 10, Angop learned.
The US oil company "Chevron" has granted 1,5 million US dollars to the national environment management program to support actions under the strategies for the preservation of planet earth.
The minister without portfolio, António Bento Bembe, said last Tuesday in Luanda that he is against the discrimination of people who are HIV/Aids positive, as this attitude promotes disrespect to human rights.
A mobile brigade for identity card issuing arrived on Tuesday in northern Malanje province, to work in the local districts, under the programme of expansion of the services, Angop learned.
At least 64,380 landmines were cleared from January 1995 to October 2009 by the Non-governmental organisation "The Halo Trust" in the provinces of Bié, Huambo, Benguela and Kuando Kubango, Angop learned Wednesday.
Finance Minister Tendai Biti on Wednesday presented his first full budget in parliament after the mid-term review he made in July this year. Biti said this was the first budget in the country's history that had utilized the internet to get contributions from people. He said over 5000 people and businesses used the Ministry of Finance website to make their submissions.
The German embassy has once again lashed out at the government for violating a bilateral protection agreement between the countries, writing a letter of complaint about the forced takeover of yet another farm belonging to a German family.
External radio service Voice of America, which hosts Studio 7, has lashed out at the government's complaints about 'pirate' radio stations, calling them inaccurate and without truth.
AIDS researchers, scientists and activists have welcomed the changes to South Africa's HIV/AIDS treatment policy, announced by President Jacob Zuma on World AIDS Day.
There was an overwhelming turnout of voters at many polling stations of Ohangwena Region and despite the rains that were received mostly on Friday evening, voters were determined to stay in queues and vote for the parties of their choice. While at the polling stations, New Era spoke to some voters about the characteristics of their party of choice and their feelings about the 2009 elections.
Although results are still trickling in at the Electoral Commission of Namibia's result centre in Windhoek, political parties on the ground have a fair idea of the post-election results. New Era spoke to four parties that have consistently shown better results than others in the Karas Region.
Mozambique's former rebel movement Renamo has banned its leader, Afonso Dhlakama, from speaking to the press.
The Mozambican government's Institute for the Management of State Holdings (IGEPE) on Wednesday unveiled its Guide for Good Corporate Governance Practices in State-owned Companies.
The Mozambican government has banned, as from 31 December, the import of any equipment that uses substances that damage the ozone layer.
Representatives of seven countries, namely Mozambique, Angola, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Botswana, and Namibia, who share the Zambezi basin, have been meeting in Maputo since Tuesday, to discuss a project to coordinate actions to prevent and mitigate the effect of floods.
The HIV prevalence rate in Mozambique has dropped from 16 to 15 per cent of people aged between 15 and 49, according to the Health Ministry.
South Africa's top scientists and researchers have come out in support of health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi after the furore over Home Affairs supplied AIDS death statistics he quoted recently - which may have been incorrect.
Poor adherence to antiretroviral (ARV) treatment came to the fore on World Aids Day commemorations last Saturday at the Monarch Kgotla.
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