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Renewable energy production must create jobs

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Pretoria - Job creation and the boosting of the local South African manufacturing sector are at the top of the agenda for the Request for Proposals [RFP] to procure renewable power producers.

Minister halts new toll gates

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Pretoria - Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele has ordered the South African National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) to halt all processes linked to the new toll gate system on the country's major roads.

Women called to seize opportunities

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Pretoria - Chief of the South African Navy, Admiral Refiloe Mudimu, today called on women to seize opportunities and not be spectators.

Political consultations for SA, Belarus

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Pretoria - International Relations and Cooperation Deputy Minister Ebrahim Ebrahim will host his Belarusian counterpart, Sergei Aleinik, for political consultations in Cape Town on Wednesday.

Women empowerment must continue - Xingwana

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Pretoria - The struggle for gender equality and women empowerment should continue even after Women's Month draws to a close, says Minister for Women, Children and People with Disabilities, Lulu Xingwana.

Executed political prisoners remembered

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Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma is to unveil a dedicated wall in the gallows at the C-Max prison with individual plaques for each of the 132 political prisoners executed there during the apartheid regime on 15 December.

Wild Banana Leaf Canopy on display at COP17

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Pretoria - The Department of Environmental Affairs will be using 25 000 Strelitzia Nicolai leaves - more commonly known as wild banana leaves - as natural shade during COP 17 in Durban.

More openness needed around HIV

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Johannesburg - SANAC Deputy Chairperson Mark Heywood said more transparency and open dialogue is needed to improve issues of stigmatisation around testing for HIV.

English paper manageable, say matrics

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Soweto - Matric pupils in some of the underperforming schools in Soweto are hopeful that they have done well in their English Paper 1.

Calls for zero discrimination in society

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Johannesburg - Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini has challenged society to be tolerant and wage a fight against discrimination across all genders.

Unemployment among the educated rising

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Pretoria - Unemployment among the educated is increasingly becoming a phenomenon, says a report released recently by the Department of Labour.

New judges appointed

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Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has appointed new judges for the Supreme Court of Appeal and various other High Courts in the country.