Influential women from across Africa converged for a conference in Pretoria last week, as they called for greater land ownership rights. The conference, hosted by the Habitat for Humanity's Solid Ground Campaign in association with the Urban CSO Cluster of the Global Land Tool Network of UN-Habitat, focused on land governance and management in Africa.

You must just love Africa. I would never give up being an African for anything else in the world.

Former Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Jeff Radebe's legal team insists that his reluctance to appoint magistrates as per the Magistrate Commission's recommendations was due to limited candidates. Advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza, SC, was defending Radebe's decision not to appoint Alberton magistrate Martin Kroukamp and 22 others to vacant posts, despite the recommendations.

As poverty continues to bite in most parts of South Africa, more people are migrating to Gauteng and the Western Cape, and that "tempo" could increase, Statistician-General Pali Lehohla warned on Tuesday. "Of course they differ, but you see the highest [levels of poverty] are in Limpopo, Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape, North West and Free State," Lehohla said as he released findings of the Poverty Trends in South Africa at a press briefing in Pretoria.

The U.S. Trade and Development Agency issued a grant to Swayana Ltd, a Pretoria-based energy project developer, for a feasibility study that will use innovative U.S. technologies to convert waste gas also known as off-gas into a valuable commodity at a plant in South Africa's Mpumalanga province. The project will use proprietary technologies from Illinois-based LanzaTech, Inc. to create ethanol from off-gas generated as a byproduct of ferroalloy smelting.

Legendary mbaqanga singer Hilda Tloubatla, whose music career spanned 53 years, has been celebrated for her contribution to the industry. The celebration of a founding member of the legendary Mahotella Queens took place at iSibalo House, the headquarters of Statistics South Africa in Pretoria.

Pretoria: The Congress of South Africa Trade Unions has slammed the government's decision to grant Zimbabwe's First Lady Grace Mugabe diplomatic immunity. International Relations and Cooperation minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane on Sunday said she had "agonised" over her decision to grant Mrs Mugabe diplomatic immunity, following allegations she assaulted a South African model in Johannesburg's Sandton suburb last week.

Incoming Southern African Development Community chairperson, President Jacob Zuma of South Africa has proposed the establishment of a regional body to develop a strategy to facilitate the exploitation of the vast natural gas resources in the region. Zuma told the ongoing 37th Ordinary Summit of SADC Heads of State and Government in Pretoria, South Africa that one of the potential game-changers for the region is the recent "discovery of globally significant natural gas resources both onshore and offshore in a number of our member states."