South Africa

Cape Town – Statistician General Pali Lehohla has announced that the number of indigent households receiving basic services from municipalities increased between 2013 and 2014.

Mvezo – There was excitement in the tiny Village of Mvezo, in the Eastern Cape, when President Jacob Zuma opened the newly built Makgatho Lewanika Mandela Junior Primary School, on Tuesday.

Soweto – Students with disabilities will soon be able to move around with ease and have more access to universities and Technical, Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma will on Friday launch government’s War on Leaks programme designed to train 15 000 young people to fix leaking taps in their communities.

Johannesburg - The Department of Arts and Culture has invested R5 million towards a project which will create opportunities for art legends to continue to have viable careers.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has urged government, the business sector and labour to work tirelessly together to save jobs in the iron and domestic steel industry sector, said the Presidency.

Pretoria – South African Revenue Service (SARS) customs officers at OR Tambo International Airport have made significant busts over the past few months.

Pretoria - Gauteng Economic Development, Environment, Agriculture and Rural Development MEC Lebogang Maile on Monday convened a meeting with Tembisa shopkeepers to discuss municipal rates.

Pretoria - Fifty medical vehicles have been distributed to health service points in four districts of the North West to boost health care service delivery.

Pretoria - Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has sent her deepest condolences to the family of three girls, who died on Monday morning, during a tragic fire at a North West school for the deaf.

Pretoria - The Gauteng Provinical Government has welcomed the news that there will be no water supply interruption after labour action at Rand Water was averted.

Pretoria – Eskom has not implemented load shedding over the past 16 successive days, it said on Tuesday.

Pretoria - National Police Commissioner, General Riah Phiyega, has welcomed the conviction of Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir, saying it sends out a loud message that South Africa cannot be used as a backyard for criminal activities.

Cape Town – Science and Technology Director General, Dr Phil Mjwara, says in order for the country’s economy to be diversified, it needs to go through a transition to a knowledge-based growth that will boost the country’s competiveness.

Pretoria - While the public authorities would implement steps to save jobs in the industry, more needs to be done by business and organized labour to create a conducive environment and avoid job losses in the steel industry.