Pretoria - Local government will never be the same again after the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs unanimously passed the Municipal Systems Amendment [Bill 22 of 2010] on Tuesday.
Pretoria - National Police Commissioner Bheki Cele says he has found "pockets of excellence" in some parts of the country during his visits to police management in all nine provinces.
Pretoria - The organisation behind the Earth Hour campaign, which saw more than a million South Africans switching off their lights for an hour to highlight the effects of global warming, has scooped the prestigious Mail & Guardian Greening the Future Award.
Pretoria - Gauteng Health and Social Development MEC Ntombi Mekgwe will be at the forefront of a TB awareness campaign as South Africa commemorates World TB Day in Orange Farm on Thursday, 24 March.
Pretoria-The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has put contingency plans in place to ensure that operations at the regulator will not be disrupted during the strike by staff members.
Pretoria - Public Works Minister Gwen Mahlangu-Nkabinde is still studying the Public Protector's report on the controversial police headquarters lease agreement and is expected to comment on it in the next month.
Lagos - The Nigerian federal government has reassured existing and potential South African investors of the safety of their investments in the Niger Delta region.
Pretoria - The Easter road death toll has been reduced by almost half the number of deaths for the same period last year.
Nairobi - Kenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala and his South African counterpart, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, have signed an agreement on modalities to encourage tourism investment in both countries.
Johannesburg - South Africans will soon know if they will be charged an interconnect fee when making a call from one network to another.
Cape Town - Transnet's decision to assemble 90 of the 100 locomotives on order from General Electric and the securing of R14 billion in planned investments in the automotive sector, are some of the immediate achievements of the Industrial Policy Action Plan (IPAP), the Minister of Trade and Industry Rob Davies said yesterday.
Pretoria - Power parastatal Eskom has partnered with the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to fight corruption.
Pretoria - Government will not intervene in the South African Football Association's (Safa) presidential election.
Pretoria - Police in Macassar, just outside Cape Town, are investigating the cause of a fire that has left nine people dead.
Pretoria - More still needed to be done to educate communities about the dangers of the swinging climate patterns which continue to wreak havoc in many countries, Deputy Minister of Water Affairs Rejoice Mabudafhasi said on Wednesday.
