South Africa

Pretoria - Leaders from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are meeting this morning in Zimbabwe for their Extraordinary Summit.

Lagos - Up to 300 unidentified females have been rescued by Nigerian troops in the northeast Sambisa forest, following a daring and precise operation on Tuesday.

Pretoria - Gauteng MEC for Roads and Transport Ismail Vadi has expressed his heartfelt condolences to the family who lost their loved one during a fatal train collision in Denver, Johannesburg, on Tuesday morning.

Pretoria - Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday said all South Africans must be mobilised to work together to achieve total freedom and economic growth.

Pretoria – The establishment of a covert intelligence unit within the South African Revenue Service (SARS) has harmed the public’s confidence in the revenue service, the SARS Advisory Board (SAB) said on Tuesday.

Pretoria – Minister in the Presidency responsible for Performance, Monitoring and Evaluation, Jeff Radebe, says the criminal justice system is ready to deal with the perpetrators of attacks on foreign nationals.

Pretoria - Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe has reassured the country and the world that peace and calm have returned to communities that were affected by attacks on foreign nationals.

Pretoria – The Inter-Ministerial Committee -- appointed by President Jacob Zuma to deal with the attacks on foreign nationals -- has announced the names of the people killed in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.

Cape Town – Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor says if women’s talents were used in the fields of science, technology and innovation, the world would develop much more progressively.

Pretoria – Minister in The Presidency Jeff Radebe says government is successfully restoring peace and calm to the areas that were rocked by incidents of violence against foreign nationals through Operation Fiela – Reclaim.

Cosmo City – The Department of Social Development has made a commitment to ensure that all learners from Cosmo City Junior Primary School stay warm during the winter season.

On the evening of Thursday 9 April, the Department of Trade and Industry, in partnership with Brand South Africa and Proudly South African, co-hosted the 3rd annual South African Premier Business Awards in Johannesburg at the Sandton Convention Centre.

South Africa will tomorrow commemorate 21 years since multitudes of South Africans voted for the first time in free and fair democratic elections. It was a moment in our history for which many had yearned and spared no sacrifice, including their lives.

In April 1994 a new nation emerged from the ashes of apartheid and hundreds of years of systematic oppression of the black majority.

Pretoria – Government is still in the process of verifying information and the names of foreign nationals killed during the recent violence in KwaZulu-Natal.