South Africa

Pretoria - Eskom has reached an agreement with three Mpumalanga municipalities who had defaulted on their payments to the utility.

Pretoria - Trade and Industry Deputy Minister Mzwandile Masina is today leading a South African delegation to the 2nd Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Ministerial Economic and Business Conference in Dubai.

Thaba Nchu - Deputy Minister of Basic Education, Enver Surty, on Sunday wrapped up the National Imbizo Focus Week with a visit to the computer centre at Phetogane Secondary School in Thaba Nchu, in the Free State.

Pretoria – Minister for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Des Van Rooyen has condemned the violence which occurred at some voter registration stations around the country.

Pretoria - The Electoral Commission of South Africa has made a final urgent appeal to voters to use the last hours of the registration weekend to ensure they are ready to vote on 3 August 2016.

Pretoria - The City of Johannesburg has welcomed the end of the Pikitup strike, which it said has accumulated waste throughout the city, posing health risks and damaging the reputation of the city.

Pretoria - While acknowledging that times are tough economically, government is committed to doing its best to improve the lives of people by creating conditions that are conducive to economic growth and job creation.

Pretoria – The Gauteng Department of Education will on Monday start with the admissions process for Grade 1 and 8 for the 2017 academic year.

Pretoria - Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) Chief Electoral Officer, Mosotho Moepya, says the vast majority of the South Africa’s 22 617 voting stations opened on time at 8am on the first day of the final voter registration weekend.

Pretoria - The High Court in Limpopo has ordered the seizure of assets belonging to three former senior government officials from the Limpopo Provincial Department of Health and Social Development as well as their close family members.

Pretoria - Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has launched the 100 days countdown towards the hosting of the 2016 AIDS Conference to be held in July in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.

Pretoria – The final voter registration weekend is in full swing in Pretoria’s northern suburbs as South Africans use the opportunity to register for the first time, re-register or update their address ahead of the 2016 Local Government Elections.

Pretoria - First time voters have heeded the call by the Electoral Commission of South Africa to register to vote in the 2016 Local Government Elections in August.

Port Elizabeth – President Jacob Zuma says more than R17 billon has been unlocked in the economy since the launch of Operation Phakisa: Ocean Economy less than two years ago.

Pretoria - The Ministry of Finance has decided to approve the implementation of an amendment to the import duty on wheat, in accordance with the current variable import duty formula.