Pretoria - The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) is on Thursday meeting with Public Works Minister Thulasi Nxesi and his management in Pretoria to discuss, among other things, actions taken to condone irregular and unauthorised expenditure at the department.
Pretoria - Transport Minister Dipuo Peters has announced the successful broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) bidders for the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa’s Rolling Stock Fleet Renewal Programme.
Cape Town – Charges of corruption have been laid against 47 public servants in Limpopo since the start of the national government’s Section 100 intervention in Limpopo in 2011, the Minister of Public Service and Administration, Lindiwe Sisulu, said today.
Pretoria - Gauteng Police chief Lieutenant-General Mzwandile Petros has not resigned, however, his contract with the South African Police Service is about to end.
Pretoria – President Jacob Zuma has received the resignation of Judge Francis Legodi, a member of the Commission of Inquiry into allegations of Fraud, Corruption, Impropriety or Irregularity in the Strategic Defence Procurement Packages, commonly referred to as the Arms Deal.
Johannesburg - The Auditor General (AG) has given the Gauteng Premier's Office a clean audit for the fourth financial year in a row.
Pretoria – As South Africa marks the start of Women’s Month, government says it is inspired by all patriotic women who took up the fight for gender equality and freedom.
Pretoria – Residents of the City of Johannesburg will now pay seven percent more for electricity.
Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma is considering a request to extend the commission of inquiry into the multibillion rand arms deal.
Pretoria - Members of the Portfolio Committee on Economic Development will this morning visit the Medupi Power Station in Lephalale, Limpopo.
Harare - The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) said on Wednesday that general elections were conducted free and fair and that vote counting had begun.
Pretoria – Johannesburg mayor Parks Tau has been cleared of all allegations that he benefitted financially from a consortium in which his wife is a shareholder.
Krugersdorp - Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu has become the latest South African to add his footprint to the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in Maropeng, outside Krugersdorp.
By Bhekisisa Mncube
Pretoria - Energy Minister Ben Martins says the Wind Resource Map is going to be a useful instrument in government’s planning for the efficient use of the country’s wind resources.
