South Africa

Pretoria - Cabinet has approved the Draft Reviewed Rural Transport Strategy which responds to the priorities of rural district municipalities and provinces.

Pretoria - Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu will on Sunday lead a government delegation to meet with the representatives of the communities of the south of Johannesburg.

Pretoria – Cabinet has joined President Jacob Zuma in congratulating Emmanuel Macron, the President-elect of the Republic of France, following his victory on 7 May in the French presidential elections.

Pretoria – The 2017 Tourism Indaba, which will be held next week, is expected to showcase South Africa’s products and services in the tourism and hospitality sector.

Pretoria - Gauteng Social Development MEC Nandi Mayathula-Khoza announced that more than half of the outstanding payments to Non-Profit Organisations (NPOs) funded by the Gauteng Provincial Government were processed for payment on Tuesday.

Johannesburg – About 20 people have died of Malaria in Gauteng in the past five months, according to Dr Chike Asomugha, a senior advisor for Public Health and Communicable Diseases, at the Hillbrow Clinic, in central Johannesburg.

Cape Town – Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel says government has implemented policies and measures that promote radical economic transformation.

Cape Town – Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba says the work of assessing the viability of a merger between South African Airways and SA Express is done, pending a government review.

Pretoria – Water and Sanitation Minister Nomvula Mokonyane says debt owed to the department by some water boards and municipalities amounted to around R2.7 billion.

Cape Town – Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Minister Senzeni Zokwana says government is working tirelessly to assist poultry farms that have been shut down due to illegal brown meat dumping.

Cape Town – Communications Minister Ayanda Dlodlo says the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has imposed a number of cost-cutting measures in a bid to improve its financial position as the public broadcaster buckles under financial strain.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma will appeal a court decision ordering him to submit the record and reasons of the decision to reshuffle his Cabinet, said the Presidency.

Pretoria - The Presidency says the former chairperson of the Board of the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA), Yershen Pillay, has served his full three-year term at the agency.

Pretoria - Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa will be back in the National Assembly today for an oral reply session.

Pretoria - South Africa and Tanzania’s political and economic relations will be top of the agenda when President Jacob Zuma and his counterpart, John Pemba Magufuli, meet this morning.