South Africa

Pretoria – The Social Housing Programme has been adjusted to accommodate low-income earners.

Pretoria- Public Enterprises Deputy Minister Ben Martins is today expected to handover furniture and construction works worth R11.4 million to two schools and a health centre in Limpopo.

Pretoria - Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula will officially open the Defence Force Service Commission (DFSC) satellite office at SAS Wingfield, Cape Town, on Tuesday.

Pretoria - The South African Police Service (SAPS) is currently recruiting former officers back into the service.

Pretoria - The Department of Trade and Industry (dti) will lead an Outward Selling and Investment Mission to Kenya and Tanzania with the aim of increasing trade and investment between South Africa and the two countries.

Pretoria - Major-General Pat Mokushane has been appointed as the Acting Divisional Commissioner of the police Crime Intelligence Division.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma is set to convene the Presidential Black Economic Empowerment Advisory Council (BEEAC) workshop which will focus on radical socio-economic transformation in Pretoria on Tuesday.

Pretoria- Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies has arrived back in the country after attending the third African Union (AU) Ministers of Trade meeting in Niger.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma is scheduled to attend the 5th Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU) Summit to be held in Swaziland, on Friday.

For the first time in the South African theatre history, the country’s six state-funded Performing Arts Institutions (PAI’s) will come together in an inaugural Arts Incubator Trade Fair that will shine the spotlight on their arts development programmes.

The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) has saluted the fathers who are involved in raising of children and particularly those who are on their own, as they celebrate Fathers’ Day on Sunday.

The labour unions representing Home Affairs employees have called off a strike planned for Monday, following an agreement reached between the Department of Home Affairs and the unions.

Tshing- South Africa’s youth on Friday paid tribute to their counterparts of 1976 who fought against a brutal apartheid system and played a major role in the country’s liberation.

Tshing- South Africa’s youth who gathered in the North West province for this year's Youth Month celebrations on Friday have supported the call by President Jacob Zuma to place education at the forefront of their lives.

Anger mounted among survivors and the public as the death toll from Wednesday's deadly tower block fire in London has climbed to 17.