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Medupi heritage impact assessment completed

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Pretoria - The Medupi power station graves task team has completed the second phase of the Heritage Impact Assessment for the power station development, says the Department of Environmental Affairs.

Officials break up gang fight at Leeuwkop

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Pretoria – The Department of Correctional Services says the rapid response by officials to a gang fight at the Leeuwkop Medium A Correctional Centre led to the prevention of serious injuries to inmates.

200 000 TVET students tested for HIV

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Cape Town – Over 200 000 students at technical and vocational education and training (TVET) colleges have been tested for HIV and Aids since 2013.

Walter Sisulu's son passes away

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Pretoria - The second son of struggle stalwarts Walter and Albertina Sisulu passed away last night in Johannesburg while being treated for pancreatic cancer.

NEMLA Bill published for public inputs

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Pretoria - Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has published for public comment the National Environmental Management Laws Amendment Bill 2015, also known at the NEMLA Bill.

Township businesses to get govt contracts

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Johannesburg – The Gauteng Provincial Government has committed to giving qualifying township-based businesses all contracts that are under R500 000.

Marikana claims to be expedited

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Pretoria - The Presidency says government will engage the legal representatives of the claimants, who were affected by the incidents of the 2012 Marikana tragedy, to expedite the processing of claims.

Human Settlements aims for clean audit

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Pretoria – Acting Director-General in the Department of Human Settlements, Mbulelo Tshangana, says it’s high time the department moves from an unqualified audit opinion to a clean audit, where there is no emphasis of matters.

Recognition for companies that promote transformation

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Pretoria – Companies that excel in advancing transformation by implementing affirmative action to redress the disadvantages in employment will be rewarded at the inaugural Employment Equity Awards tomorrow.

President Zuma to visit DRC

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Pretoria - South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are expected to take their relations to new heights when President Jacob Zuma visits that country later this week.

Gauteng picks up pace of housing delivery

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Pretoria - The Department of Human Settlements in Gauteng is slowly starting to see an improvement in the number of homes being delivered on the back of years of a downward trend.

New technology to speed up fibroid surgery

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Pretoria – A new technology has been introduced at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Johannesburg to treat women suffering from uterine fibroids.