South Africa

South Africa has joined the world in marking World Food Day to highlight the plight of millions of undernourished people in the world.

Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee, tasked with the Section 100 intervention in the North West, will today kick-off its oversight visits to the province.

The Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB) in association with the media research companies, Focal Points and Newsclip, proclaims “land expropriation without compensation” as its 2018 South African Word of the Year.

South African Parliamentarians have thrown their voice behind international efforts to halt the weakening of the multilateral fora governing trade and investments.

Women Minister Bathabile Dlamini has called on South Africans to contribute to rural transformation by including women in all their work and developmental projects.

Arts and Culture Deputy Minister Maggie Sotyu will today deliver the Nelson Mandela public lecture in Accra, Ghana.

International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) Deputy Minister Luwellyn Landers will this week engage in a wide range of bilateral issues during an inaugural session of political consultations in Tunis, in Tunisia.

Thava Govender has resigned as Eskom’s Group Executive of Generation, the power utility has confirmed.

South African Deputy President David Mabuza has called on stakeholders involved in the South Sudan peace process to be steadfast in their efforts of implementing the peace agreement, which will benefit the people of the east-central African country.

The Presidency has rejected media reports which have alleged that President Cyril Ramaphosa failed to take action on the VBS Bank saga.

Government has wished all Grade 12 learners well as they commence with their 2018 final examinations today.

The City of Cape Town has reminded water consumers to remain in the lower 500 million litre per day usage band until another limit is imposed by the National Department of Water and Sanitation.

The listing of the Marico Biosphere Reserve is set to benefit local communities in the North West, says Rural, Environment and Agricultural Development (READ) MEC Manketsi Tlhape.

President Cyril Ramaphosa will lead the government delegation to the two-day Presidential Health Summit that will be convened on Friday and Saturday in Boksburg, Gauteng.

Hundreds of fieldworkers from Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) descended on farms across the country today as Stats SA began data collection for the 2017 Census of Commercial Agriculture (CoCA).