South Africa

Gauteng MEC for Roads Infrastructure and Public Transport Jacob Mamabolo will engage with all bus companies that have contracts with his department to make advance driving a compulsory skill drivers.

South Africa is to host the 17th Ordinary Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) in Durban.

The European Union (EU) has pledged its support for the African Continent Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), saying the agreement has the potential to spark economic growth and development.

The power system remains constrained and vulnerable with generating plant performing at very low levels of stability.

KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Sipho Hlomuka has dispatched disaster management teams to New Hanover in the Mshwathi local municipality, just outside of Pietermaritzburg, to attend to people who were affected by yesterday’s tornado.

Deputy President David Mabuza -- in his capacity as Special Envoy to South Sudan -- is headed to Entebbe, Uganda, for regional consultations.

Government has conveyed its condolences to the friends and family of the “poet of the people”, Sandile Dikeni.