Pretoria - Following water interruptions in some areas of Gauteng, Water and Sanitation Minister Nomvula Mokonyane will be meeting with the entire Board, the Chief Executive Officer and other senior officials of Rand Water this evening.
Pretoria - The Department of Health has made an urgent call to the country’s private sector to donate to the Ebola Response Fund to assist the countries affected by the virus.
Pretoria - The Council for Geoscience (CGS) will close 45 open mine shafts in the 2014/15 financial year to prevent illegal mining and to protect communities who live near the derelict and ownerless mines in Gauteng, Limpopo and Mpumalanga.
Pretoria - About 150 examination centres in KwaZulu-Natal have been granted approval by Umalusi to release the 2014 mid-year Senior Certificate examination results, says the Department of Basic Education (DBE).
Pretoria – South Africa will, as the chair of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Organ on Politics, Defence and Security, lead electoral observer missions to three countries.
Pretoria - The Portfolio Committee on Basic Education is currently meeting education stakeholders in Sterkspruit, in the Eastern Cape, to assess the impact of Sadtu’s rejection of inspectors and district officials to schools.
Pretoria – Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba has announced that his department is ready to process the Zimbabwe Special Permits applications.
Pretoria - The Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation says the continuing vandalism and theft of valves, copper and transformers has a direct bearing on water shortages in many municipalities across South Africa.
Pretoria - South Africa and Brazil have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which seeks to coordinate efforts for sustainable promotion and expansion of tourism relations between the two countries.
Pretoria – The Gauteng Department of Labour has launched an investigation into the death of a worker, who was crushed by a machine last Thursday at the Rheinmetall Denel Munition, in Boksburg,
The passionate debate following the release of the annual South African Police Service (SAPS) crime statistics is indeed welcomed. Crime is our common foe; thus when every South African is concerned about crime and its negative effects we move a step closer to beating it.
In 1994, government inherited a country with high levels of poverty and unemployment. These challenges regrettably persist even today largely due to the destructive effect of apartheid policies which had limited access to quality education and sought to restrict formal labour market participation for the majority of South Africans.
New York – President Jacob Zuma used his speech delivered at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday night to rally the world behind South Africa’s campaign to transform the United Nations Security Council and for Africa to have permanent seats in the council.
New York - Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has explained the reason behind the use of a private jet to fly President Jacob Zuma to the 69th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.
Pretoria - Minister in the Presidency, Jeff Radebe, has assured South Africans that government is committed to ensuring that the mortal remains of South African citizens, who lost their lives in Lagos, are accurately identified and brought home.
