South Africa

Pretoria - The new North West Executive Council (Exco) will today hold its Planning Lekgotla to determine critical policy and delivery priorities for the 2014/15 financial year.

Cape Town - President Jacob Zuma will today respond to a two-day debate by Members of Parliament on the State of the Nation Address (SONA) he delivered to South Africans earlier this week.

Pretoria - The department responsible for championing the rights of women has given its support to the Commission for Gender Equality’s probe into reports that an SABC boss received a ‘wife’ as a gift.

Pretoria - Government is committed to find innovative ways to attract more young people into the agricultural sector, says Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister, Senzeni Zokwana.

Pretoria - The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) says it has received the Electoral Court judgement regarding its chairperson Advocate Pansy Tlakula.

Pretoria - Transport Minister Dipuo Peters will today meet her Lesotho counterpart, in Maseru, to resolve existing problems regarding taxi operations between South Africa and Lesotho.

Pretoria – The hard work of three KwaZulu-Natal municipalities hasn’t gone unnoticed, as they were part of a select few to receive recognition from the President during the State of the Nation Address (SONA).

Pretoria - Eskom has asked the public to help it “beat the peak” by switching off geysers and non-essential appliances so as to reduce electricity usage.

Cape Town – Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe says as part of the radical economic transformation envisaged for the next five years, government would, over and above numerous interventions, develop productive sectors of the economy.

Pretoria - University attendance for black South Africans remains low, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said on Wednesday.

Pretoria – Members of the public are invited to explore the SA Agulhas II and find out more about the work of the Department of Environmental Affairs in the oceans and coastal environment.

Pretoria - The Department of Home Affairs and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will commemorate World Refugee Day (WRD) on Friday.

Pretoria - South Africa’s current account deficit narrowed to 4.5% of gross domestic product (GDP) in the first quarter of 2014 from a shortfall of 5.1% in the last quarter of 2013, the Reserve Bank said on Wednesday.

Pretoria – Mamello Thinyane and Takatso Semenya will be saying “Sawubona Denmark” when they jet off to that country for Europe's largest science conference.

Pretoria - The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose to 6.6% in May breaching the Reserve Bank’s inflation target range for a second month in a row, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) announced on Wednesday.