South Africa

Pretoria - The Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) and Chemical and Allied Industries' Association (CAIA) are to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to help improve rail safety.

Cape Town - Government plans to transform the economy by expanding growth and job creation, while developing a more effective public service, says Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan

Cape Town - Further Education and Training (FET) colleges will work closer with the Sector Education Training Authorities (Setas) to help put students on one-year workplace placement programmes.

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma's visit to Equatorial Guinea provided a good opportunity for both South Africa and that country to proceed to review different issues relating to bilateral cooperation.

Johannesburg - Sophisticated drug detection devices are to be installed at the country's major airports to prevent drug trafficking, following the arrest of South African Airways (SAA) crew members.

Pretoria - Home Affairs Minister, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, has welcomed the arrest of three Egyptians at the department's office in Springs.

Mbombela – While land restitution will be faster than before, it will be a stricter process, says Deputy Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform Lechesa Tsenoli.

Pretoria - Motorists are advised that the Allandale Road Interchange on the N1 Ben Schoeman Freeway will be closed to traffic from 9pm on Friday to 13pm on Saturday.

Pretoria - Bafana Bafana coach, Carlos Alberto Perreira is back in the country to take charge of the struggling national team.

Pretoria – The disbursement of the Jobs Fund has lagged due to initial delays caused by the manual processing of applications, as well as delays in finalising contractual arrangements with grantees

Pretoria - Government has decided to terminate the controversial contract to purchase eight military A400 Airbus strategic lift aircraft.

Pretoria - Ministers have committed themselves to ensure that all outstanding parliamentary questions are answered before parliament rises.

Pretoria - Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has delivered a well balanced Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS), says Senior Economist at Investment Solutions, Chris Hart.

Pretoria - The initiative by Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga to introduce changes to the National Curriculum Statement (NCS) has been commended by Cabinet.

Cabinet held its ordinary meeting in Cape Town yesterday, 4 November 2009.