The minister for women, children and persons with disabilities has called for tougher charges for people who kill to harvest body parts for muti.
Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele has called on South Africans to do their bit to increase road safety after 57 road deaths were recorded last week.
Google shut its mainland Chinese-language portal and began rerouting searches to an uncensored Hong Kong-based site.
Millions of people have escaped slum conditions in the last decade, but the number of slum dwellers is rising due to urbanisation and population.
Cosas bowed to community pressure and called off its protest action in Soweto.
The management of the besieged Durban University of Technology, which experienced violent protest on its campus this week has decided to suspend all academic activities.
ANC Youth League president Julius Malema believes "white boer" journalists are conspiring against him, a media report said on Monday.
The Xinhua news agency launched a new broadside against Google on Monday, saying that the company had reneged on promises to abide by Chinese law.
Sudanese government "repression" of its opponents and the media is threatening the chances of next month’s elections being free and fair.
With speculation that Google will soon announce the closure of its China-based internet portal, the reaction from some has been hurry up and leave.