South Africa

Pretoria - Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has pleaded with members of the public to refrain from disrupting schools when protesting.

Land ownership. A thorny subject that still divides South Africa, more than 22 years after the 1994 democratic dispensation. While government’s land reform and redistribution programmes had yielded some successes since 1994, large tracts of land still remain in the hands of very few people.

Cape Town – Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini has assured South Africans that government will continue to pay social grants to beneficiaries beyond March 2017.

Pretoria – Tuberculosis remains the leading underlying natural cause of death in 2015, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said on Tuesday.

Cape Town – Government has allocated a “fee adjustment grant” to assist students from poor, working class and missing middle households to pay for increases of up to 8% on the 2017 higher education fees.

Pretoria – Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom has condemned the recent spate of violence that erupted in Tshwane and in Johannesburg directed at foreign nationals.

Pretoria – The Gauteng Provincial Government says it has adopted a comprehensive Provincial Policing Plan to turn the tide on crime in the province.

Pretoria – The number of poachers and traffickers arrested for rhino-related poaching offences in South Africa has doubled.

Pretoria - Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi says the number of unplaced learners in the province has been eliminated to zero.

Cape Town – The Nine-Point Plan has laid the foundation for government to accelerate radical socio-economic transformation, Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti said on Tuesday.

Pretoria - The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa’s Board of Control has unanimously agreed to terminate the secondment of Acting Group CEO Collins Letsoalo with immediate effect.

Pretoria – Plans are underway to reduce the housing backlog in Ekurhuleni following the announcement that government will start building 100 000 houses in the metro to benefit residents in the 119 informal settlements in the municipality.

Pretoria – The Gauteng Department of Health plans to increase the promotion of contraceptive services and post-abortion care to decrease the demand in unplanned pregnancies.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma will take the fight against crime to Soshanguve Block L, in Pretoria, this morning.

Pretoria – Minister of Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa has invited any interested parties to submit written comments on the draft regulations on the reclamation of land from coastal waters.