South Africa

The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education and Health has been allocated the lion’s share of the provincial budget in the 2018/19 financial year.

Nostalgia and euphoria are always likely to go hand in hand when the world remembers the day that one of the world’s most famous statesmen clenched and raised his right fist and took his first steps to freedom after 27 years in jail.

As part of efforts to stamp the authority of the state, the South African Police Services has unveiled the national Public Order Policing (POP) reserve units.

Media24 has admitted to price fixing and the fixing of trading conditions, says the Competition Commission of South Africa.

The Department of Water and Sanitation has called South Africans to join the department in celebrating National Water Week.

Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has called for disciplinary action against learners and teachers at Eldorado Secondary following a video making the rounds on social media depicting pupils in a brawl with a teacher nowhere in sight.

The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) has been given today as a deadline to submit a full report on an attack on one of its female drivers after a train was vandalised on Tuesday evening.

A local company that will partake in the Department of Trade and Industry’s trade and investment mission to Ghana and Nigeria is keen to seek new markets on the continent.

The 11 suspects who were arrested by the Hawks in Rustenburg and Johannesburg for the illegal dealing in and theft of unwrought platinum are expected in court this morning.

National Police Commissioner General Khehla Sitole has called for calm and tolerance in Umlalazi, Eshowe, in KwaZulu-Natal following violent protests.

International Relations and Cooperation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu on Thursday issued a diplomatic démarche to the Australian High Commissioner to South Africa, Adam McCarthy.

Southern African Development Community (SADC) Ministers of Health have agreed on a course of action to mitigate the outbreak of Listeriosis in the region.

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has expressed sadness following the death of five-year-old learner, who fell into a pit latrine on Tuesday.

Gauteng Health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa says snaking queues for chronic medication at health facilities will soon be a thing of the past with the launch of the Pharmacy Dispensing Unit (PDU).

Government will crack down on those who circumvent black economic empowerment legislation, says Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies.