South Africa

Pretoria - Government is embarking on a three-year mass tuberculosis (TB) screening campaign that will help to reduce the number of new infections and related deaths.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma will this morning open the Black Industrialists Indaba as part of government’s commitment to develop black industrialists in the country.

Paris - An Airbus A320 of the German airline, Germanwings, has crashed in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, southern France.

Pretoria – The 2015 Physical Education Symposium is expected to encourage physical education at all schools.

Midrand – President Jacob Zuma has applauded municipalities that are going the extra mile to serve communities more effectively.

Pretoria - Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training, Mduduzi Manana, says he is satisfied with progress made on infrastructure at Sol Plaatje University in the Northern Cape.

Pretoria - The South African government has extended its condolences to the government and people of Singapore following the death of their founding father Lee Kuan Yew.

Pretoria - The Department of Basic Education (DBE) says the implementation of the 1+4 teacher development plan, aimed at boosting performance in the senior phase, will go ahead.

Pretoria – The Gauteng province has spent R939 million on education infrastructure in the 2014/15 financial year, Gauteng Infrastructure Development MEC Nandi Mayathula-Khoza said.

Pretoria – Traffic officials in the Northern Cape say they will show no mercy to those who break the rules of the road, especially over the Easter holiday.

South Africans are no doubt looking forward to the Local Government Elections next year. They are an important because municipalities form the first line of contact between citizens and government.

Earlier this month, President Jacob Zuma joined thousands of other commuters on the morning rush as part of his Siyahlola monitoring visit to assess the public transport system in the country’s capital.

Pretoria - A ministerial task team to address challenges in the oil and gas industry has been established at Saldanha Bay, said the Department of Trade and Industry (dti) on Monday.

Pretoria - The Department of Communications (DoC) says certain aspects of the Broadcasting Digital Migration process require detailed review.

Pretoria - Progress on the construction of Sol Plaatje University in Kimberley will come under the spotlight this morning when Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training Mduduzi Manana visits the site.