South Africa

The Free State Development Corporation (FDC) has announced it will launch an investigation into circumstances surrounding a R100 million investment into the troubled VBS Mutual Bank.

Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Environmental Affairs is satisfied with the country’s preparations for the 24th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP 24) scheduled for December.

The Department of Trade and Industry has through the Workplace Challenge Programme (WPC) sustained over 50 000 jobs while a further 250 has been created over the last two decades.

Government says it will no longer tolerate the destruction of property and infrastructure such as trains - calling this economic sabotage.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has requested departments and entities implicated in Special Investigating Unit (SIU) investigations to provide him with updates on the implementation of recommendations contained in the reports.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has received an interim report of the Commission of Inquiry into Tax Administration and Governance by the South African Revenue Service (SARS).

There are many remarkable men and women upon whose shoulders our nation has been built. Their powerful contributions to our struggle for freedom charted the way for a country that belongs to all South Africans.

President Cyril Ramaphosa will at the weekend lead a government delegation to the two-day Presidential Health Summit to deliberate and propose solutions to address the challenges facing the country’s health system.

Science and Technology Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane says the partner countries in the African Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network (AVN) projects are happy with progress that has been made to prepare for the construction of telescopes in their respective countries.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has postponed his trip to the DRC on doctors’ advice to first recover from an upper respiratory tract infection before undertaking prolonged travel.

South Africa has joined the world in marking World Food Day to highlight the plight of millions of undernourished people in the world.

Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee, tasked with the Section 100 intervention in the North West, will today kick-off its oversight visits to the province.

The Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB) in association with the media research companies, Focal Points and Newsclip, proclaims “land expropriation without compensation” as its 2018 South African Word of the Year.

South African Parliamentarians have thrown their voice behind international efforts to halt the weakening of the multilateral fora governing trade and investments.

Women Minister Bathabile Dlamini has called on South Africans to contribute to rural transformation by including women in all their work and developmental projects.