South Africa

About 22 570 registration venues opened this morning and tomorrow to allow voters to register and update their details ahead of the 2016 Local Government elections.

Pretoria - Communications Minister Faith Muthambi is expected to travel to Davos, Switzerland, on Sunday to attend the 2016 World Communication Forum (WCF).

With the country’s population becoming increasingly young, Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba says today’s generation should determine its own future.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has urged all eligible voters to get registered for the 2016 Local Government Elections tomorrow and on Sunday.

Pretoria - Musa Canga, a 21-year-old South African, has encouraged his peers to participate in the 2016 Local Government Elections, to realise transformation and improve service delivery in their communities.

Pretoria - South Africans must consider using groundwater on a grand scale to augment the fast diminishing surface water, says Director General of the Department of Water and Sanitation, Margaret-Ann Diedricks.

Pretoria - Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Michael Masutha has called on African communities to do more to protect people from high levels of violence, regardless of their sexual orientation.

Pretoria - Government has launched the National Defence Industry Council (NDIC), which will help support and preserve the country’s defence industry as a national asset.

Pretoria - The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) has welcomed Thursday’s decision by the Constitutional Court to dismiss Oscar Pistorius’s leave to appeal his conviction.

Pretoria – The Government Communication and Information System’s (GCIS) Government Segmentation Model will help communicators better understand their target audiences and ensure that the intended messages reach home.

Pretoria - Communications Minister Faith Muthambi’s visit to the Northern Cape on Friday will give her insight into the challenges and solutions needed in the first batch of subsidised set top boxes (STBs), which she saw installed in the area last December.

Pretoria – On the eve of the 2016 Local Government Elections voter registration weekend, the Independent Electoral Commission says it hopes that at least one million new voters will register to make their mark before the voter’s roll closes.

Pretoria – It’s all systems go for the registration weekend and the Electoral Commission says all eligible voters must come out in their numbers to register ahead of the 2016 Local Government Elections.

Pretoria – Cabinet has condemned the violent student protests which have disrupted studies at some universities and led to the destruction of property.

Pretoria - Cabinet has called on South Africans to make constructive inputs to the draft National Action Plan to combat Racism, Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance.