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Grant beneficiaries should note pay days

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Pretoria – Government has urged social grant beneficiaries to take note of their respective pay days, which appears on the slips received on their previous pay date in March 2017.

Repo rate left unchanged at 7%

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Pretoria - The Reserve Bank has decided to keep the repo rate unchanged at 7% per annum, Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago said on Thursday.

SA fine tunes strategy to close skills gap

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Midrand – The Human Resource Development Council of South Africa (HRDCSA) has adopted a revised strategy to put the country on a path of closing its skills gap.

Mining industry income rises to R419.5bn

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Pretoria - Income generated by the mining industry rose from R393.4 billion in 2012 to R419.5 billion in 2015, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said.

HIV declines as Limpopo ramps up treatment

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Lebowakgomo - A nurse living with HIV received a standing ovation in the Limpopo Provincial Legislature after her moving social media post was read to the house during the tabling of the provincial Health Budget Vote on Thursday.

Koeberg injects R29bn into W Cape GDP

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Cape Town – Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown says the Koeberg Power Station in the Western Cape has contributed R29 billion to the province’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) between 2013 and 2016.

Recurrence of El Nino drought conditions likely

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Pretoria – The South African Weather Service says the next summer season has increased the likelihood for the development of El Nino conditions which are often associated with drought and water scarcity as seen recently in South Africa.

W Cape agriculture under threat

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Cape Town - Agriculture and food security in the Western Cape are under threat due to increased heat, water stress on crops and livestock and droughts resulting from climate change.