South Africa

In marking this year’s May Day rally, President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday paid tribute to South Africa’s workers, thanking them for making the country what it is today.

Eskom says it is currently considering Optimum Coal Mine’s business rescue practitioners’ proposal to reduce the monthly coal supply tonnage to the Hendrina power station from 400 000 to 200 000 tonnage.

South Africa has expressed disappointment at not being granted exemption from the US Section 232 steel and aluminium tariff duties.

As South Africa joined the globe in commemorating International Workers’ Day on Monday, Director General of the Department of Labour Thobile Lamati is expected to embark on an inspection blitz at various work places in the Eastern Cape this week.

As tributes continued to pour in for three South African youngsters Akhumzi Jezile, Thobani Mseleni and Siyasanga Kobese who died in a car crash at the weekend, the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) has described their untimely death as a loss of talent for the country.

Transport Deputy Minister Sindi Chikunga on Tuesday visted Nquthu in KwaZulu-Natal to emphasise the importance of road safety.

The north and south bound at Mooi River has been opened to traffic following protests there that resulted in the torching of 35 trucks on Sunday.

The Department of Arts and Culture is set to lead Africa Month celebrations with Minister Nathi Mthethwa expected to launch the fourth edition of the commemoration in Cape Town on Tuesday.

Government will next week brief media on developments around the centenary of South Africa’s founding President Nelson Mandela.

Minister of Science and Technology Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane will this week launch a mining initiative aimed at reviving South Africa’s flagging mining sector.

Motorists making using of the N3 highway have been advised by police to use alternative routes this morning as there is still debris from protests where trucks were set alight on Sunday night.

The decision by President Cyril Ramaphosa to appoint a team of special envoys to woo investors to South Africa will help turn around the country’s economy, one of the country’s leading economists has said.

Parliament has joined other South Africans in condemning what it has described as the discriminatory regulations passed by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) allegedly targeted at South African athlete Caster Semenya.

KwaZulu-Natal police have been commended for the arrest of 16 people in connection with taxi violence and the recovery of a number of firearms.

Gauteng police have called on the public to come forward with any information which might lead to the arrest of the people who petrol bombed a home belonging to a police couple in Ekangala, Tshwane East.