Pretoria - Higher Education and Training Minister, Dr Blade Nzimande, has placed focus on the country’s need for more artisans by declaring 2013 as the “Year of the Artisan”.
Pretoria - The Department of Local Government and Housing in Limpopo has dispatched a team of officials to Greater Tzaneen area to assess damage caused by storms last night.
Pretoria - The new minimum wage for farmworkers for the next three years has been pegged at R105 per day, the Minister of Labour Mildred Oliphant announced in Pretoria on Monday.
Pretoria - Banyana Banyana will this morning visit Daveyton to garner support ahead of the crucial 2010 CAF African Women Championship opening match against Tanzania on Sunday.
Boksburg – Happy staff is the key to ensuring good patient care. This was the message given to 102 newly appointed hospital CEOs attending the country’s inaugural orientation programme designed for this group.
Pretoria - A review and tightening of the Employment Equity Act may be a solution to the "gloomy" picture of the status of employment equity in the country.
Johannesburg - The South African Revenue Service (SARS) will from October begin using a new and modernised programme when dealing with customs.
Johannesburg – With the 2014 Soccer World Cup around the corner, South Africa’s soccer administrators have been told to prepare a strong Bafana Bafana team to represent the nation in Brazil.
Pretoria - Public Service and Administration Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has called on all South Africans to participate in the drafting of South Africa’s third and final African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) country report.
Pretoria - Free tickets to the 2010 Confederation of African Football (CAF) Women Championship will be available today at Computicket, Shoprite, Checkers and Checkers Hyper outlets countrywide.
Pretoria - Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has announced a further guarantee of R174 billion to allow Eskom to complete the construction of the Medupi Power Station in Limpopo and the Kusile plant in Mpumalanga.
Durban - The HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) campaign is well on track to achieving its target, with more than 710 000 people having been tested for HIV in KwaZulu-Natal.
Pretoria - Family, colleagues and top police brass bid an emotional goodbye on Thursday to the seven policemen tragically killed in a helicopter crash in Mpumalanga.
Pretoria - Home Affairs Minister Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma today welcomed the vote in the National Assembly, during which Members of Parliament adopted proposed amendments to the Municipal Electoral Amendment Bill.
Pretoria - South Africans will soon get a chance to comment on the Report on the Study on the Violent Nature of Crime in South Africa. Cabinet approved the report today, which it commissioned in 2007.
