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Shorter, intense training for SAPS recruits

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Pretoria - The South African Police Service (SAPS) has shortened their Basic Training Learning Programme (BTLP) from 24 months to an intensive eight months.

Road safety operations move up a gear

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Pretoria - Traffic authorities from all nine provinces and the metros will run high impact road operations for the next three months in an effort to reduce deaths on the country’s roads.

Eskom readies for winter

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Pretoria - Power utility Eskom has begun to ramp down planned maintenance to ramp up energy availability for the winter season.

President Zuma arrives in Botswana

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Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has arrived in Gaborone, Botswana, for consultation with that country’s President Seretse Khama Ian Khama, says the Presidency.

Government congratulates Mathatha Tsedu

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Pretoria – Government has on Monday congratulated South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) Executive Director, Mathatha Tsedu, for receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of the Western Cape.

Government saddened by tragic bus crash

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Pretoria - Government has sent its condolences following the death of African National Congress (ANC) members, who were killed in a bus accident between Winburg and Ventersburg on Sunday morning.

Condolences for families of bus crash

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Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has extended his deepest condolences to the families of the African National Congress (ANC) volunteers who died tragically when the bus they were traveling in crashed, says the Presidency.

Environmental talks underway in Egypt

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Pretoria – Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa is expected to attend a high-level segment of the 6th Special Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) in Cairo.

Oscar Pistorius back in court

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Pretoria - Convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius will this morning make a brief appearance in the High Court in Pretoria.

Limpopo residents urged to celebrate Freedom Day

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Tiyani - Communications Minister Faith Muthambi has urged the people of Limpopo to use national Freedom Day on April 27 to deepen social cohesion and guard against the erosion of the values of the freedom struggle.