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E-Cape budgets R2.5m for Easter campaign

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Pretoria – The Eastern Cape Department of Transport has budgeted R2.5 million for this Easter Arrive Alive Campaign in order to ensure that there is maximum visibility of officers throughout the province.

Road users urged to be cautious

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Pretoria - Gauteng Health MEC Hope Papo has urged drivers to know their health status before embarking on long journeys to be with their families or attend church services this upcoming weekend.

Gauteng govt gets tough on infrastructure delays

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Pretoria – The Department of Infrastructure Development (DID) has a zero tolerance approach to project overruns, inferior workmanship and substandard contractors, says Gauteng MEC Qedani Mahlangu.

Gauteng tourists urged to get day pass for e-tolls

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Pretoria - The South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) is urging tourists, who will be visiting Gauteng during the Easter long weekend, to get a day pass before using the provincial e-tolled roads.

Moving people, changing lives

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Pretoria – Learners with disabilities at Filadelfia Secondary School will be able to move more freely, thanks to assistive devices donated to the school on Wednesday.

Vocational learning with Swiss precision

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Pretoria – A partnership between South Africa and Switzerland will give Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) college students the sought-after experience they need to do well in the workplace.

SARB fines country’s big banks

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Pretoria - The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has fined the country’s big four banks R125 million collectively, it said on Wednesday.

Security cluster visits hotspots ahead of elections

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Pretoria - The Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) responsible for the national general elections will today visit KwaZulu-Natal, which has been identified as one of the “hotspots”, ahead of May 7.

Medical fitness key to aviation safety

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Pretoria – Transport Minister Dipuo Peters says the importance of driver fitness cannot be overstated, especially in the field of aviation where South Africa has a good track record.

Zimbabwe to roll out HPV vaccination

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Harare - Zimbabwe will start rolling out the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine to be administered to girls aged 10 in two districts of Marondera and Beitbridge from next month as a pilot project to reduce deaths from cervical cancer.

Presidency announces National Orders recipients

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Pretoria - From top athletes Caster Semenya, Lucas Sithole and Cameron van der Burg, businessman Ray Ackerman to activists and struggle stalwarts Dawid Kruiper, Frances Baard and Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa -- these are some of the names on the long list of South Africans and eminent persons who are the recipients of prestigious Presidential honours.