South Africa

Pretoria - Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has welcomed the approval of the Garden Route as a Unesco Biosphere Reserve.

Pretoria - The Gauteng Department of Education on Thursday morning advised parents to keep their children at home as a safety precaution.

Cape Town – Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says the Department of Trade and Industry (dti) is currently engaging General Motors South Africa with a view of finding a new investor for part of its SA operations.

Cape Town – Work is underway to review the Integrated Plan of Action that was conceptualised to fight gender-based violence.

Pretoria - The Gauteng provincial government has roped in the South African Military Health Services to assist with autopsies.

Pretoria - Public Works Minister Nathi Nhleko has called on construction professionals to partner with government to root out corruption in the industry.

Cape Town – Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says it is in the interest of all South Africans for a judicial inquiry to be established to probe allegations of State capture.

Pretoria – Geologist Tshiamo Legoale has made history by being the first South African to be crowned the FameLab International Champion for a project which researched a method of using wheat to harvest gold from mine dumps.

Pretoria - Power utility Eskom has noted Moody’s decision to downgrade it to Ba2 from Ba1.

Cape Town – Minister in the Presidency responsible for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, Jeff Radebe, has called on young South Africans to aspire to be employers instead of job seekers.

Pretoria - The Hawks have arrested three men following the discovery of heroine worth R104 million on Monday.

London - A massive fire engulfed a 27-story apartment building in western London early on Wednesday, three hours after police received the first report of the blaze.

Pretoria – The Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Commission (B-BBEE Commission) has welcomed the Department of Trade and Industry’s lowering of its threshold for major B-BBEE ownership transactions.

Pretoria - Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba has signed and gazetted the coming into operation of various provisions of the Financial Intelligence Centre Amendment (FICA) Act, 2017.

Pretoria - Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa is back in the National Assembly today to answer his last oral questions for this term of Parliament.