South Africa

The competitiveness of informal traders will receive a boost with the Department of Small Business Development set to hand over tools and equipment to informal business owners in Mpumalanga.

The Department of Environmental Affairs will go on a public awareness drive to raise the importance of protecting and conserving the country’s wetlands.

The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has invited the public to comment on the discussion paper on the proposed methodology to determine systemically important banks in the country.

Rooting out corruption in municipalities will get the kick-start it needs with amendments being made to the Municipal Structures Act.

Government is taking stock of how effective its gender equality and women empowerment efforts are at a meeting with Minister Bathabile Dlamini and stakeholders across the three tiers of government.

South Africa’s Consul General to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), David Magabe, has urged local companies to tap into the Middle East’s agro-processing sector.

Buddying enterprises in KwaZulu-Natal have over five years been provided with financial support worth R1.1 billion.

Water supply in the Eastern Cape is set to improve with the launch of the Mzimvubu Water Project’s advanced infrastructure.

The Department of Social Development has called on all unemployed social workers and auxiliary social workers to register on the department's database by 31 March 2019.

The National Assembly has adopted a resolution to dissolve the Fifth Parliament, whose five-year term ends on 10 May.

As custodians of culture, traditional leaders are ideally placed within communities to expose myths around patriarchy and notions of ownership over the bodies of women that continue to persist.

Take the South African National Defence Force into the future -- that’s the message from SANDF Commander-in-Chief President Cyril Ramaphosa to the men and women in uniform.

KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs (EDTEA), Sihle Zikalala, has welcomed the appointment of Aubrey Shabane as the new Chief Executive Officer of the KwaZulu-Natal Growth Fund (KZNGF).

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) is intensifying its effort to identify and bring to book tax dodgers.

The Department of Women has lauded government’s efforts to support South Africa’s star athlete Caster Semenya through her legal challenge of the International Association of Athletics Federation’s ruling.