South Africa

The South African Police Service (SAPS) has responded to queries on new police trainee recruitment for 2024/2025.

All eyes are on Gqeberha as the city hosts the first G20 Employment Working Group (EWG) meeting, set to take place from 18-21 February 2025 at the renowned Boardwalk International Convention Centre.

Tourism Minister Patricia de Lille on Wednesday welcomed the Department of Home Affairs' significant progress made on the visa regime in recent months.

With the deadline for the registration of spaza shop owners and other food handling facilities drawing closer, government has warned the public against fronting for business owners who do not possess the required documentation for trading.

Spaza shop owners and other food handling facilities are left with exactly 13 days to register their businesses with municipalities to ensure they are compliant with the law.

The Portfolio Committee on Social Development has called on the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) to ensure that all beneficiaries have access to Postbank sites so they can migrate to the new Postbank Black Cards before the deadline to receive their March 2025 social grants.

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has welcomed the dismissal of an official from the Mpumalanga Department of Public Works, Roads, and Transport in connection with a fraud, corruption, theft, and money laundering scandal related to Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

Minister of Electricity and Energy, Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, says the department has designed a private sector investment instrument to mobilise resources for modernising South Africa’s energy infrastructure.

Eastern Cape Premier Lubabalo Oscar Mabuyane has commended the Hawks for their swift and successful action in solving the case of a nine-year-old girl, who was kidnapped outside Dreamland Primary School in Buffalo Flats, East London.

The Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana has amended the regulations of the Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), in an effort to deliver much-needed infrastructure, and ease pressure on stretched government finances.

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President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the Plant Health Bill into law, introducing measures to combat plant pests that threaten domestic agriculture and could affect South Africa’s ability to export agricultural products.

The remains of the 14 South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers who died in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have finally returned home and will be handed over to their families this evening.

The Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA), Velenkosini Hlabisa, is organising a significant national convention for Khoi-San leaders.

Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, has praised President Cyril Ramaphosa for announcing that South Africa will continue its plans to establish the National Health Insurance (NHI) this year.