Health practitioners from all over Africa are in Johannesburg for a two-week course being run by the World Health Organisation focusing on environmental factors that impact on health.

Government is consolidating an intervention strategy to help recoup money owed to municipalities that is estimated to be around R26 billion, it emerged during a meeting (MINMEC) between Provincial and Local Government Minister Sydney Mufamadi and his provincial counterparts.

Poor people in eThekwini Municipality were given a major financial break when the municipality agreed to write off close to R200 million in arrears.

The recent decline in global travel figures has not had a significant effect on tourist arrivals to South Africa, according to figures released on Friday. The statistics show a 4.2 percent increase in overseas arrivals, not including Africa, and a 1.2 percent increase in total foreign arrivals, including Africa, as compared to 2002.

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has vowed to push ahead with the formalisation of its local government structures to further put the sector at the cutting-edge of development in the region, according to Sydney Mufamadi, chairperson of the SADC local government ministers' forum.

President Thabo Mbeki on Monday took delivery of the first phase of the Freedom Park memorial in Pretoria, just a few weeks before the nation takes full ownership of the commemoration site on Freedom Day. Speaking at the unveiling of the site, President Mbeki said the park would preserve the nation's historic evolution and heritage over the past colonial, apartheid and democratic years.

Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi has praised improvements that have been made in service delivery and urged people to raise concerns if they were unhappy about government services.

Buffalo City's Junior Council plans to become more visible this year as it takes on projects to improve the lot of the city's young residents.

eThekwini Municipality is making good progress in delivering free basic water and electricity to communities in a programme that is targeted at the poorest of the poor in the city, mayor Obed Mlaba said in his state of the city address.

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