South Africa

Pretoria - A 20-year power purchase agreement that Eskom and Redstone Solar Thermal Power were due to be signed has been postponed.

Cape Town – Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba says the department will assist citizens who lost their Identity Documents during the recent natural disasters to apply for temporary documents to enable them to vote.

Pretoria - Minister Angie Motshekga has appointed a Task Team to evaluate textbooks to ensure they are free of bias in terms of race, sex, gender and other forms of discrimination, says the Department of Basic Education.

Pretoria – Minister of Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa has launched a R30 million project to address waste challenges as well as create youth unemployment in Mohlakeng, Randfontein.

Pretoria – PhalaPhala FM will celebrate its relocation from Polokwane to Thohoyandou later this afternoon, at Univen stadium.

Pretoria - Employment declined in the second quarter of 2016 by 129 000 to 15.5 million, Statistics South Africa said on Thursday.

Pretoria - Operation Hydrate and Awqaf South Africa, supported by the Department of Water and Sanitation and the Mandela Foundation have pledged to drill 67+ boreholes in drought stricken areas over the coming months.

Pretoria - Communications Minister Faith Muthambi says the late former president Nelson Mandela encouraged the creation of a society where the voiceless would have a voice.

Pretoria – Community media serve to empower marginalised communities to define and manage their own development, says Communications Minister Faith Muthambi.

Pretoria – The KwaZulu-Natal Government has handed over multi-million rand infrastructure projects to the Kokstad Municipality to make backyard operations more professional.

Pretoria - The South African Police Service is committed to ensuring peaceful local government elections next week on 3 August.

Pretoria - While South Africa has among some of the strictest laws in the world governing the safety of paraffin stoves, sub-standard paraffin stoves continue to cause harm in poor communities.

Pretoria – Residents of Skampaneng Village in the Hammanskraal area, north of Pretoria, were overjoyed on Wednesday, after they received toiletries, sanitary products, as well as non-perishable items.

Pretoria - Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson has requested a review of the Central Energy Fund (CEF) governance processes.

Pretoria - Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Des van Rooyen says government has been holding extensive dialoguing sessions with role players in Vuwani, in Limpopo, to curb further incidents of violence in the area due to the issue of demarcation.