South Africa

A 143-member South African Police Services (SAPS) task team has been deployed to the troubled Westbury, following community complaints of gangsterism and drug peddling.

As the rainy season approaches, for many crop farmers in the Free State, this is the time to prepare their fields and get ready for planting crops.

Amid the on-going dire effects of drought and climate change in most parts of the country, the vandalism of water infrastructure is one amongst the major contributors affecting water supply and security, with effects hard felt by those in marginalised communities.

A technical team is set to visit the country to assess the country’s energy sector, following the conclusion of the eighth South Africa-Saudi Arabia Joint Economic Commission (JEC).

The Department of Trade and Industry (dti) has welcomed British industrial technology company Rolls-Royce’s partnership that will help deliver improved aircraft availability and skills.

Kgathatso Tlhakudi has been appointed as the new acting Director General of the Department of Public Enterprises.

High-impact interventions to drive job creation, job retention and economic growth will be the focus of the much anticipated Jobs Summit, which kicks off today.

The Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS) board of directors has appointed Thomas Kgokolo as interim chief executive officer (CEO).

The work done by the late Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa on environmental sustainability was a service to all South Africans and will impact generations to come.

Police Minister Bheki Cele and National Commissioner General Khehla Sitole will on Thursday return to Westbury to officially parade the newly permanently deployed Tactical Response Team (TRT) in the violence plagued area.

Energy Minister Jeff Radebe has appealed to the business sector to withhold passing on the increasing costs of fuel prices to the consumer.

The South African Police Services (SAPS) in Dobsonville, west of Soweto, is investigating the discovery of two decomposed bodies of children that were found buried in a shallow grave on Monday.

President Cyril Ramaphosa says one of the targets of the land reform programme is to identify well-located areas for social housing in urban areas.

Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has made an impassioned plea to Cabinet Ministers, Deputy Ministers, Members of Parliament and senior government officials to come forward and testify in the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture.

Government has welcomed the harsh sentence handed down to the so-called Springs monster and his estranged wife, in the North Gauteng High Court, on Wednesday.