South Africa

Pretoria – South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday met with representatives of the Boer-Afrikaner Volksraad at the Union Buildings, in Pretoria.

Pretoria – Women with disabilities, from different walks of life, have shared their challenges with Deputy Minister for Social Development, Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu, at a conference in Durban.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma, who is on a week-long working visit to Russia, met counterpart Vladimir Putin, on Thursday, to discuss among others the repatriation of South African fallen heroes who are buried there.

Pretoria - South African Airways (SAA) has introduced new procedures for travel to and from Ebola virus high risk areas with passengers required to seek permission to travel from the national Department of Health.

Pretoria – Government is to launch a campaign to encourage South Africans from all walks of life to share their personal stories on what it was like growing up during apartheid, what changes democracy has brought and their vision for the future.

Pretoria - South Africa is fostering closer trade relations with Mozambique, which is one of the seven fastest growing economies in sub-Saharan Africa, says the Department of Trade and Industry (dti).

Pretoria - Trade and Industry (dti) Minister Rob Davies has called on opposition party Members of Parliament (MPs) to think more carefully before associating themselves with complaints raised by market players.

Johannesburg – The new Natalspruit Hospital, which recently opened its doors, is set to be the future of Gauteng health.

Pretoria - The Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services has called on Small, Micro and Medium Enterprises (SMMEs) to submit information about their businesses.

Soweto – Gauteng MEC for Education, Panyaza Lusufi, has announced that from next month his department will open a new school every week, until the end of the year.

Johannesburg - The former Miss SA Teen, Masechaba Dlengezele, is amongst the first batch of South African students sent-off on a scholarship to study in Japan.

Pretoria - The Portfolio Committee on Rural Development and Land Reform has urged the Land Claims Commission to fast-track the implementation of plans to increase the number of lodgement centres, including the roll out of mobile lodgement centres in deep rural areas.

Pretoria - The commission of inquiry investigating the deaths of seven people who died while building a house in Meyersdal, south of Johannesburg, recently will start on 29 October.

Pretoria - Land tenure reform will take centre stage at a three-day National Land Tenure Summit in Johannesburg next week.

Pretoria – The Minister of Trade and Industry, Rob Davies, has congratulated Webhelp SA on the launch of their Johannesburg Contact Centre, which has created 200 jobs.