South Africa

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has described jazz singer Thandi Klaasen’s passing as a tragic loss to the nation.

Pretoria - Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa is in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, where he is leading a South African delegation to the World Economic Forum annual meeting.

Pretoria – Adopting the habit of working hard from an early age is what secured a bright future for an aspirant mechanical engineer, Olwethu Bitterhout, from the Eastern Cape.

Pretoria – The Ad Hoc Committee on the South African Broadcasting Corporation Board (SABC) has denied claims that people were unfairly denied an opportunity to state their case before the Committee.

Mkhondo – Principal Samson Nkosi of Izimbali Combined School, in Mpumalanga, has thanked government for the well-resourced Information Communication Technology (ICT) centre, the school now boasts.

Pretoria – Public Service and Administration Minister, Advocate Ngoako Ramatlhodi, has condemned the abuse of state resources by some public servants.

Pretoria - As the 2017 tertiary education academic year begins, the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) is working around the clock to finalise applications for funding.

Pretoria - A total of 83 479 people were arrested in South Africa between October and December 2016, the South African Police Service (SAPS) announced on Thursday.

Pretoria – Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande will meet with stakeholders in institutions of higher learning to minimise violent protests on campuses.

Kabokweni - Learners from schools in the rural town of Kabokweni in Mpumalanga will no longer have to wait until they get to varsity to gain skills in digital media technology.

Pretoria - The Department of Basic Education says hearings for all learners implicated in the leaking of Mathematics Paper 2 in two schools in Limpopo during the 2016 National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations will be completed in the next two weeks.

Pretoria – Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande has called on students to make use of opportunities to further their education so they can be successful and develop a skilled workforce for the country.

Pretoria - Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande says tremendous progress has been made in making higher education more accessible to the poor through the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) over the years.

Pretoria - Teaching and learning commenced well in most schools countrywide, while few interruptions were experienced in other schools on the first day of the academic year.

Pretoria - Former Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) prisoner Shadrack Doshani, popularly known as Kenny Motsamai, has been granted parole.