South Africa

Pretoria – A Portfolio Committee at the North West Provincial Legislature has expressed concern about the lack of a security plan at special schools in the province.

Pretoria – Migratory waterbirds are faced with a wide range of threats, which are mostly human induced such as pollution, deforestation and land use change.

Pretoria - The Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) has sent 160 traffic officers back to training as it seeks to improve road safety and the quality of traffic officers who enforce the law on South Africa’s roads.

Pretoria - The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) has welcomed the court's ruling in the Mido Macia murder trial.

Pretoria - A Home Affairs front office clerk was arrested on Tuesday in King Williamstown, in the Eastern Cape, for facilitating fraudulent marriages involving illegal foreign nationals.

Pretoria – Eskom has not implemented load shedding over the past 17 successive days, it said on Wednesday.

Pretoria - The South African Police Service (SAPS) in Gauteng has launched a manhunt for two awaiting trial prisoners who escaped from lawful custody on Monday.

Pretoria - Police have recovered large amounts of cash and Mandrax valued at R82 000, during Operation Fiela in KwaNobuhle, Port Elizabeth.

Pretoria – The upgraded William Nicol Drive, which has been improved to the tune of R422 million, was officially opened by the Gauteng Premier David Makhura and MEC for Roads and Transport Ismail Vadi on Tuesday.

Cape Town – Statistician General Pali Lehohla has announced that the number of indigent households receiving basic services from municipalities increased between 2013 and 2014.

Mvezo – There was excitement in the tiny Village of Mvezo, in the Eastern Cape, when President Jacob Zuma opened the newly built Makgatho Lewanika Mandela Junior Primary School, on Tuesday.

Soweto – Students with disabilities will soon be able to move around with ease and have more access to universities and Technical, Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma will on Friday launch government’s War on Leaks programme designed to train 15 000 young people to fix leaking taps in their communities.

Johannesburg - The Department of Arts and Culture has invested R5 million towards a project which will create opportunities for art legends to continue to have viable careers.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has urged government, the business sector and labour to work tirelessly together to save jobs in the iron and domestic steel industry sector, said the Presidency.