The Portfolio Committee on Sports, Arts and Culture has warned the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) to get its house in order to avoid jeopardising the country’s preparations for next year’s games in Tokyo, Japan.
Four former senior Gauteng government officials are today expected to appear before court for alleged tender irregularities committed at the Gauteng Department of Health (GDoH) in 2007.
While Eskom expects to have performed adequate reliability maintenance on its aged power plants to significantly improve reliability by September 2021, the risk of loadshedding will still not be eliminated going forward.
Cabinet has sent condolences to the family and friends of Dr Vuyokazi Mahlati, who was the Chairperson of the Presidential Advisory Panel on Land Reform and Agriculture.
Cabinet has approved a number of interventions to support domestic ferrochrome production and its chrome value chain sector.
Cabinet has wished the 1 058 699 million Grade 12 learners good luck as they begin preparing for the final examinations, due to start on 5 November 2020 and end on 15 December 2020.
It is all hands on deck as Cabinet approves the setting up of the National Economic Recovery Council that will ensure the implementation of the Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan.
Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu says government is fast-tracking the implementation of the revised Rural Safety Strategy to respond to the security needs of rural communities and support socio-economic development.
Cabinet has urged South Africans to guard against complacency with regards to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) and continue to wear their masks to prevent the spread of infections.
African Union (AU) Chairperson President Cyril Ramaphosa will today chair the second mid-year coordination meeting between the AU, Regional Economic Communities (RECs), Regional Mechanisms (RMs) and Member States.
KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Transport, Community Safety and Liaison, Bheki Ntuli, has called on motorists to exercise extra caution on the roads.
The cumulative number of detected COVID-19 cases is now 708 359, with 85 more COVID-19 related deaths reported.
President Cyril Ramaphosa says the implementation of South Africa’s Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan has begun in earnest and the focus should now shift to implementation.
Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, has urged the public to take precautions to avoid a possible resurgence of high COVID-19 infections in the country.
The Department of Water and Sanitation in KwaZulu-Natal has maintained that it will oversee the speedy implementation of water infrastructure projects across the province.
