South Africa

Upington - About 43 new state-of-the-art hospitals are expected to be built across South Africa within the next five years.

Pretoria - There is no space for non-performing public office bearers and government officials and those placed in positions of responsibility have to get their act together, says Eastern Cape Premier, Phumulo Masualle.

Pretoria - Basic services offered to the people of South Africa have had an impact on poverty, says Statistics South Africa (Stats SA).

Pretoria – The Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services says government will use technology more effectively to improve service delivery in the country.

Pretoria - The Gauteng Health Department says it has beefed up security measures at the Helen Joseph Hospital in Johannesburg following an attack on a nurse last Friday night.

Pretoria – The community of Tembisa can now feel safer with the opening of the newly built state-of-the-art Tembisa South police station, in Ekurhuleni.

Pretoria – The South African Revenue Service (Sars) says it will continue to retain the highest levels of institutional integrity to protect the tax system against abuse.

Cape Town – The Deputy Minister of Basic Education, Enver Surty, says the hand-over of a new primary school in the Western Cape will go a long way in increasing access and in improving the quality of education in the area.

Pretoria - The Department of Arts and Culture will educate South Africans about its struggle heroes, who were not widely recognised, as part of its Heritage Month projects.

Franz Fanon taught us that “each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfil it or betray it”. These prophetic words uttered many years ago came to describe the generation espoused by Nathaniel Ndazana Nakasa, better known as Nat Nakasa, for it discovered its mission and pursued it.

Pretoria - The Southern African Development Community (SADC) will send a facilitator to the Kingdom of Lesotho to work with that country’s coalition government, as well as an observer team following reports of a “coup”.

Pretoria – Barely six months after its launch, the Department of Social Development’s Gender-Based Violence Command Centre has been recognised by the contact centre community.

Pretoria - The Presidency has requested the postponement of the matter between King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo of the Abathembu dynasty and President Jacob Zuma.

Pretoria – The Department of Labour is to conduct hearings in the garden and landscaping services sector to explore extending the sectorial determination.

Johannesburg – The Gauteng Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs has committed to establishing a Service Delivery War Room to improve responsiveness to communities.