South Africa

Pretoria - The South African Police Service (SAPS) has shortened their Basic Training Learning Programme (BTLP) from 24 months to an intensive eight months.

Pretoria – The Gauteng Department of Education has apologised for the delay caused by a technical glitch in the Learner Admissions website.

Pretoria - Traffic authorities from all nine provinces and the metros will run high impact road operations for the next three months in an effort to reduce deaths on the country’s roads.

Pretoria - Power utility Eskom has begun to ramp down planned maintenance to ramp up energy availability for the winter season.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has arrived in Gaborone, Botswana, for consultation with that country’s President Seretse Khama Ian Khama, says the Presidency.

Pretoria – Government has on Monday congratulated South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) Executive Director, Mathatha Tsedu, for receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of the Western Cape.

Pretoria - Government has sent its condolences following the death of African National Congress (ANC) members, who were killed in a bus accident between Winburg and Ventersburg on Sunday morning.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has extended his deepest condolences to the families of the African National Congress (ANC) volunteers who died tragically when the bus they were traveling in crashed, says the Presidency.

Cape Town – Statistician General Pali Lehohla says the total share of youth in unemployment has declined from 71.3% to 66.6% between 2009 and 2014.

Pretoria – Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa is expected to attend a high-level segment of the 6th Special Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) in Cairo.

Tiyani - The registration for set-top boxes (STBs) in the digital migration project started in earnest on Sunday in Tiyani village in Limpopo.

Pretoria - Convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius will this morning make a brief appearance in the High Court in Pretoria.

Tiyani - Communications Minister Faith Muthambi has urged the people of Limpopo to use national Freedom Day on April 27 to deepen social cohesion and guard against the erosion of the values of the freedom struggle.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma will travel to Botswana, Namibia and Swaziland to hold consultations with the Heads of State and Government of member states of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU).

Pretoria- The Mopani Water Intervention Project is expected to be completed in June 2017, the Department of Water and Sanitation said on Sunday.