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Govt welcomes two life terms for Motapane

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Pretoria - Government has welcomed the Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court sentencing of Modise Motapane, who was handed two life sentences and an additional seven years behind bars for the rape and murder of Keabetswe Tshabalala in September last year.

GCIS to launch SADC Media awards

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Pretoria - The Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) will tomorrow launch the 2014 Southern African Development Community (SADC) Media Awards competition.

Sanral to brief Committee on e-toll system

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Pretoria - The South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) will tomorrow explain its operations on the Gauteng e-tolled highways, to the Portfolio Committee on Transport.

SAA investigating body found on aircraft

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Pretoria - An investigation has been launched following the discovery of a body on board a South African Airways (SAA) aircraft in the United States.

SONA is a platform to report on administration - Zuma

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Cape Town – President Jacob Zuma says his State of the Nation Address earlier this week was a platform for him to give a report on what his administration had done in the past five years as well as an account of what had been achieved in the 20 years of democracy.

Time needed to investigate maladministration allegations

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Pretoria – North West Premier Thandi Modise has appealed to the communities of Swartruggens and Koster to give the provincial government time to investigate the allegations of maladministration, nepotism and corruption which have been made against the Kgetleng Rivier Local Municipality.

Gauteng reports fewer incidences of STIs

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Pretoria – The Gauteng Department of Health says its intensive educational campaign to raise awareness around sexual transmitted illnesses (STIs) is beginning to bear fruit.

Gauteng youth encouraged to register to vote

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Pretoria - The Gauteng Executive Council (Exco) has called on young people who have not yet registered to vote in the upcoming national and provincial general elections, to do so before the date is published in the Government Gazette.

Education the winner at Jacob Zuma Trust dinner

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Cape Town – Mcebisi Nxedlana’s parents never had the opportunity to go to school and many times the 20-year-old himself wanted to drop out so he could get a job and help his struggling family.

Call for more books on SA's history to be penned

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Cape Town – Arts and Culture Minister Paul Mashatile has encouraged South Africans, especially those that were close to or were part of the liberation struggle, to write more books about the political history of the country.