South Africa

Consumers are in for some relief this month as the Department of Minerals and Energy has announced a decrease in all grades of fuel starting from Wednesday.

The Department of Health and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) will no longer issue the daily numbers of COVID-19 cases, hospital admissions and deaths due to a decrease in SARS-CoV-2 levels.

Eskom has met with Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and top leadership from at least 70 businesses n a Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA)-led session.

The Department of Transport has assured tour operators in the tourism industry that it is racing against time to process all operating licences for tour operators.

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) is expected to conduct an investigation into allegations of corruption in the procurement of “strategic, technical and operational support services to the Strategic Programmes and Project Management Office” at the OR Tambo District Municipality in the Eastern Cape.

The public has until 29 August 2022 to comment on a raft of draft Bills published by the National Treasury and the South African Revenue Services (SARS) on Friday.

Higher Education, Science and Innovation Minister, Dr Blade Nzimande, says the COVID-19 pandemic has had a disastrous impact on public health systems and economic progress across the globe, threatening the gains made in the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals.

A joint awareness campaign against vandalism of water and sanitation infrastructure, is set to continue in the Western Cape, said the Department of Water and Sanitation.

Government will on Monday officially launch the 2022 Women’s Month at Olive Conference Centre in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.

Ahead of World Ranger Day, Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Barbara Creecy paid tribute to Timbavati’s Head Ranger, Anton Mzimba, who was gunned down outside his home this week.

The Events Technical Production Transformation Forum (ETPTF) through the support of the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture will conduct phase 2 consultations for the development of a B-BBEE Sector Code for the events, technical and production service industry (ETPSI), an intervention to drive transformation.

Eskom has appointed two contractors to provide battery storage solutions for the power utility’s flagship Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) which is expected to inject at least 1 440MWh of power to the grid.

South Africa has detected 318 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, bringing the total number of known infections to 4 004 201 since the outbreak.

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) says the country’s population is now estimated to be 60.6 million by the end of June 2022.

Public Works and Infrastructure Minister, Patricia de Lille, has appealed to landlords to help drive down electricity demand in their private offices that the department rents from them.