South Africa

Pretoria – Eskom has lifted its power emergency allowing all industrial customers to go back to full production.

Pretoria - The Gauteng Provincial Government (GPG) will commemorate the life and times of the late former Correctional Services Minister and National Assembly chairman, Ben Skosana, who died last Wednesday at the age of 66.

Pretoria – North West Premier Thandi Modise has described the attack and torching of a worker at Amplats’ Swartklip Union Mine, allegedly by striking mineworkers at Sefikile, as a barbaric act.

Pretoria - Higher Education and Training Minister, Dr Blade Nzimande, says he is “deeply disturbed” by the reported racist attack on Dumane Gwebu, a student at the University of Free State.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has described Government’s Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) as a success story which has benefitted more than 3.5 million people, since it was introduced in 2004.

Cape Town – The Limpopo province also has a good story to tell, President Jacob Zuma said in Parliament, on Thursday.

Cape Town – South Africa will for the next five years enter a new “radical phase” where policies will have to focus more on economic transformation to address poverty, unemployment and inequality, says President Jacob Zuma.

Cape Town – President Jacob Zuma says he was touched by IFP Member of Parliament, Mario Oriani-Ambrosini’s impassioned plea, to have marijuana decriminalised.

Pretoria – The Limpopo provincial government has committed to providing a comprehensive health service that promotes good health, prevents illness, provides care and rehabilitative services to the ill and people with disabilities.

Pretoria - Eskom on Thursday declared an electricity emergency and asked its industrial customers to reduce their load by 10% as of this afternoon.

Pretoria - The Limpopo Provincial Government is in the process of reviewing and aligning its growth and development strategy to the National Development Plan to put the province on a higher trajectory of economic development.

Cape Town - President Jacob Zuma says affirmative action is needed to reverse the effects of apartheid that saw millions of South Africans excluded from participating in the economy for years.

Pretoria - The new board of the Roads Agency Limpopo (RAL) will be appointed before the end of this month, Premier Stanley Mathabatha says.

Pretoria – Limpopo Premier Stanley Mathabatha says South Africans have many reasons to celebrate the country's twenty years of freedom and democracy.

Pretoria - Limpopo Premier Stanley Mathabatha says all schools in that province had received textbooks when schools re-opened this academic year.