Cape Town – Black economic empowerment (BEE) is not only a political and social necessity in redressing the wrongs of the past, but will also help broaden economic participation which will contribute significantly to economic growth, the Minister of Trade and Industry Rob Davies said today.
Pretoria - The direct descendants of the Khoi and San communities must benefit from the new cut-off date for lodging a land claim as part of reversing the legacy of the 1913 Native Land Act.
Cullinan – Africa Public Service Day (APSD) should be celebrated every day to encourage public servants to serve people speedily and on time, says Thokozile Memele, a resident from Refilwe location, who attended the APSD event today.
Johannesburg - Government funded skills development centre in Ennerdale is giving young people a second chance to turn their lives around through different skills training and job placements.
Pretoria - South Africa and Benin have agreed to the establishment of a SA-Benin Chamber of Commerce which will promote the economic viability of both countries, the Department of Trade and Industry (dti) said.
Cape Town – Relaxing the country’s labour laws would not have helped the country escape its poor economic growth in the first quarter, President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday.
Pretoria - North West Premier Thandi Modise has extended birthday wishes to Bafana Bafana and Kaizer Chiefs Captain Itumeleng Khune.
Pretoria - Arms manufacture company Denel says arrangements have been made to repatriate the bodies of the two South Africans who lost their lives in a bomb attack on the United Nations compound in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
Pretoria - Eskom has been named the overall winner of the 2013 Nkonki State Owned Companies (SOC) Integrated Reporting Awards for a second year running.
Pretoria - As the 6th South African Aids Conference got into full swing in Durban, the Gauteng Health Department announced that it has already given Isoniazid preventative prophylaxis [TB preventive therapy] to 9 000 HIV positive people in the 2012/13 financial year.
What has distinguished us as a nation, has been that South Africans do not back away from a challenge. Our history tells us that no challenge is too big, no matter how complex and difficult, when we stand united.
More than 100 years ago, indigenous African people lived together and jointly owned the land. Individual land ownership was an unfamiliar concept. The land belonged to the people and local chiefs managed it on their behalf.
Pretoria - South Africa’s current account deficit narrowed from 6.5% in the fourth quarter of 2012 to 5.8% gross domestic product in the first quarter of 2013, said the Reserve Bank on Wednesday.
The 18th to 21st June 2013 mark the hosting of the South African AIDS conference, at the Durban International Convention Centre hosted by the National Department of Health.
Pretoria - South Africa’s real gross domestic expenditure increased by 3.5% in the first quarter of 2013, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) said on Wednesday.
