South Africa

The Social Development portfolio will this month engage on various community outreach programmes mainly focusing on social security, active ageing and child headed households.

The South African businesspeople representing the 26 companies that will be participating in the SIAL Paris International Food Products Exhibition in France this week are relishing the prospects of exporting their products to Europe.

The Presidential Employment Stimulus Package (PESP) employment programme has created one million job opportunities since its inception in the late 2020.

Transnet and organised labour are expected to meet at the Transnet Bargaining Council (TBC) today in an effort to resolve the current wage negotiation impasse between the two.

National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula says world parliaments have made inadequate progress towards improving women's representation in recent years and still have a long way to go towards achieving gender equality across the socio-economic spectrum.

The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) has called on law enforcement agencies to work together to stop the brutality and violation of the rights and dignity of minor children.

Parliament’s Select Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA), Water and Sanitation and Human Settlements, has expressed disappointment of the torching of the house belonging to Port St Johns’ Local Municipality Mayor.

Human Settlements Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi will on Wednesday host the Executive Director of UN-Habitat Maimunah Mohd Sharif who will be on an official visit to South Africa.

President Cyril Ramaphosa says Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres play a critical role in laying solid foundations for South Africa’s future leaders.

Home Affairs Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, has announced new fee amendments for South African passports and travel documents in terms of section 4(1)(e) of the South African Passports and Travel Documents Act, 1994 (Act No. 4 of 1994), and in consultation with the Minister of Finance.

The capacitation and funding of Community Policing Forums (CPF) across the country is eminent, says Police Minister Bheki Cele.

Police in Johannesburg have apprehended a 21-year-old man for murder following the discovery of six bodies in a building in the CBD on Sunday.

Eskom has announced that stage 2 load shedding will be implemented from 4pm to midnight every evening until Wednesday.

Newly elected Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi says his new cabinet will continue with and build on the Growing Gauteng Together 2030 blueprint laid out by the administration before his.

South Africans are expected to wake up to no load shedding on Saturday morning for the first time in at least three weeks following the suspension of load shedding.