South Africa

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has promised South Africans there will more visible police on the streets.

Cape Town – President Jacob Zuma says government budgets must be used to achieve the objective of economic transformation, which ultimately seeks to benefit the majority of South Africans.

Pretoria - Government is to open three provincial investment offices in KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng and the Western Cape, President Jacob Zuma announced on Thursday evening.

Pretoria – About R2.5 billion was made available to farmers last year as the country experienced a severe drought, says President Jacob Zuma.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has instructed Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi to ensure that the Health Ombudsman's recommendations are wholly and speedily implemented without any reservations.

Pretoria – President Jacob Zuma has welcomed the recovery in commodity prices as it has resulted in an upswing in mining output.

Pretoria – President Jacob Zuma says the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) is the most effective poverty alleviation programme run by government.

Pretoria - Government will take an aggressive approach towards land reform and redistribution this year.

Pretoria - President Zuma says South Africa will this year prioritise mathematics and science subjects more than ever before, in memory of Oliver Reginald Tambo.

State of the Nation Address by Jacob G Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa on the occasion of the Joint Sitting of Parliament Cape Town

Pretoria - With the end of load shedding - Government is now more committed to the Independent Power Producers Programme, President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday.

Pretoria - A draft Property Practitioners Bill will be published by the Department of Human Settlements for public comment with a purpose of establishing a more inclusive, representative sector, towards radical economic transformation.

Radical economic transformation will be at the centre of Government's priorities for 2017, President Jacob Zuma declared on Thursday night, during his televised annual address to the nation.

Pretoria – President Jacob Zuma says tourism is a key job driver with tourist arrival numbers for 2016 increasing to nine million.

Pretoria – President Jacob Zuma has arrived at the National Assembly where he will deliver his fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA) to the joint sitting of the two houses of Parliament since he was re-elected in May 2014.