South Africa

Government has encouraged the Khoisan community to participate in shaping legislation as Parliament considers the Traditional and Khoisan Leadership Bill.

South Africa has sent its condolences to the people of United Arab Emirates (UAE) following a helicopter crash that claimed the lives of four people in the North-Eastern region of the country.

The City of Cape Town has urged residents and motorists to plan their trips accordingly as there will be temporary road closures in place in the city centre and surrounds to accommodate the upcoming minstrel events.

The national senior certificate examinations have been given the thumbs up by quality assurance body, Umalusi.

Motorists will usher in the New Year with more a little more in their pockets with the petrol price set to come down in January.

Siphon suction pumps will be used to further lower the Middle Lake Dam level in Benoni after part of the dam caved in earlier this week.

Initiation deaths were at the core of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Zweli Mkhize’s meeting with Eastern Cape traditional leaders.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared a Special Provincial Official Funeral for former Gauteng Member of the Executive Council Khabisi Mosunkutu.

South Africa has successfully launched into space the continent’s most advanced nanosatellite to date - the ZACube-2.

The City of Cape Town has on Thursday reiterated its stance that public amenities are available to all members of the public.

Public health facilities across Gauteng were abuzz with excitement as 324 healthy babies were delivered on Christmas Day.

Congestion at the Beitbridge into Zimbabwe is being resolved, said the Department of Home Affairs on Monday.

KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Finance, Belinda Scott, has put smiles on the faces of over 200 children from Edendale Hospital and SOS Children’s Village in Pietermaritzburg during her surprise visit to the two institutions ahead of Christmas.

The Department of International Relations and Cooperation has urged South Africans with family members in Indonesia whom they cannot contact or locate, to contact the department’s 24-hour switchboard number at 012 351 1000.

In the spirit of Christmas, Home Affairs Minister Siyabonga Cwele is set to hand out birth certificates to the parents of “Christmas babies” in KwaZulu-Natal.