South Africa

Pretoria - The South African Police Service (SAPS) in Gauteng has launched a manhunt for two awaiting trial prisoners who escaped from lawful custody on Monday.

Pretoria - Police have recovered large amounts of cash and Mandrax valued at R82 000, during Operation Fiela in KwaNobuhle, Port Elizabeth.

Pretoria – The upgraded William Nicol Drive, which has been improved to the tune of R422 million, was officially opened by the Gauteng Premier David Makhura and MEC for Roads and Transport Ismail Vadi on Tuesday.

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.