South Africa

The BRICS forum constitutes one of the cornerstones of South Africa’s foreign policy, the Department of International Relations and Cooperation said on Monday.

South Africa has more than R220 billion rand worth of investments in the project pipeline for the mining industry which include the platinum group metals (PGMs), industrial minerals, energy and non-ferrous metals.

Thousands of university students are getting ready to tackle the 2018 academic year as public universities open their doors for learning.

Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba is urging South Africans to share their tips ahead of his tabling of the 2018 Budget Speech later this month.

Minister in the Presidency for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Jeff Radebe has called on the mining sector to take very strict precautionary measures to ensure that miners are safe underground.

The Reserve Bank has imposed administrative sanctions on the China Construction Bank (CCB) Corporation, Johannesburg branch, for non-compliance with the Financial Intelligence Centre Act.

A total of 28 suspects who were arrested across Gauteng this weekend are due to appear at various magistrate’s courts this morning.

The Department of Trade and Industry (dti) has lent its support to 11 of the country’s emerging miners, who will showcase their products at the Investing in African Mining Indaba that gets underway in Cape Town today.

Motorists can expect to pay 30 cents less for petrol, while diesel will be 17 cents cheaper per litre, at the pumps from Wednesday.

The BRICS Sherpas and Sous Sherpas meeting gets underway in Cape Town this morning.

Higher Education and Training Deputy Minister Buti Manamela says government still needs to forge ahead with its plans to make the public and institutions alike understand the concept of free education.

Police top brass have visited the border-lying community of Manguzi in KwaZulu-Natal amid protests against crime.

The introduction of the long-awaited National Minimum Wage (NMW) is intended to improve the living standards of the workers and reduce inequalities.

South Africa will host the first meeting of BRICS Sherpas and Sous-Sherpas in Cape Town on Monday.

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) will showcase some of the latest technologies to improve safety in the mining sector.