South Africa

Pretoria – A newly created Employment Equity Template will make reporting by employers to the Department of Labour easier.

Pretoria – The stage is set for the 2015 Tshivenda Music Awards (TSHIMA), which is aimed at inspiring artists, song writers, producers and composers to continue to preserve and promote Tshivenda culture and language through music.

Pretoria – As Women’s Month draws to a close, Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, will honour 500 women military veterans and struggle veterans from across the Nelson Mandela Metro on Saturday.

Pretoria - Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has been discharged from the Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria, the Department of Health said on Wednesday.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma will this morning meet the executive and the judiciary to discuss working relations between the two arms of the state.

Pretoria - The switching on of transmitters by television signal distributor, SENTECH, is a step closer to the roll-out of the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) project, says Communications Minister Faith Muthambi.

Pretoria – The Department of Home Affairs’ Operation Bvisa Masina - which is Venda for "throw out the rot" - aimed at rooting out corrupt officials at the department is slowly bearing positive results.

Pretoria - The Mathematics and science outcomes at South African schools are improving, the Department of Basic Education said on Wednesday.

Pretoria - The Department of Basic Education has urged the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) to retract its call for pupils to retaliate with violence when confronted with corporal punishment by teachers.

Pretoria - The application by the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries for the development of a fish farm in Port Elizabeth, in the Eastern Cape, has been referred back to the Department of Environmental Affairs for consideration.

Pretoria - Deputy Minister of Communications Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has challenged young women to become agents of change and boldly claim their space in the economy.

Pretoria – The Stellenbosch University management is expected to appear in Parliament to table their transformation plans to the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training.

Pretoria - The South African Local Government Association (SALGA) says it has wrapped up wage negotiations with trade unions.

Pretoria – A Portfolio Committee at the North West Provincial Legislature has expressed concern about the lack of a security plan at special schools in the province.

Pretoria – Migratory waterbirds are faced with a wide range of threats, which are mostly human induced such as pollution, deforestation and land use change.