South Africa

South Africa has eight new laboratory-confirmed measles cases, five of which were detected in Limpopo, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Friday.

Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Mondli Gungubele, has assured Parliament that government is working tirelessly to save the South African Post Office (SAPO), which was placed under provisional liquidation earlier this year.

Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) Commissioner, Teboho Maruping, has sent a stern warning to KwaZulu-Natal companies, which failed to cooperate with forensic auditors.

Special Advisor to President Cyril Ramaphosa, Professor Olive Shisana, says South Africa faces challenges in medical products, vaccines and technologies in terms of supply chain management and procurement, despite having the capacity to produce therapeutic goods.

Small harbours in the Western Cape have been given a massive boost with an investment of R500 million by government.

Minister in the Presidency responsible for Electricity, Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, is expected to visit Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) in the Eastern Cape today.

The Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Police, Tina Joemat-Pettersson, has expressed dismay at the “unintended” public release of personal information of eight Krugersdorp rape victims.

Higher Education and Training Deputy Minister, Buti Manamela, says a structured and continuous capacity building programme for Student Representative Councils (SRC) will go a long way to defusing potential conflicts and threats to teaching and learning.

A former Eskom administrative clerk has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for defrauding the power utility of more than R2.6 million.

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) says it will appeal a decision by the High Court in Bloemfontein to discharge the defendants in the Nulane Investments money laundering and fraud case.

Even with limited resources, Health Minister Dr Joe Phaahla, believes that many public health facilities could perform better if it were not for inefficiency, poor management, neglect of duty due to poor supervision and outright corruption.

The Department of Transport has reassured members of the public that the production of driving licence cards will not be affected by the routine maintenance of the card production machine.

President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to travel to Burundi on Friday to attend the 11th High Level Segment of the Regional Oversight Mechanism (ROM) of the Peace, Security and Cooperation (PSC) Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Great Lakes Region.

Deputy Minister in the Presidency Nomasonto Motaung and the Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA) will on Friday unveil brand new state-of-the-art broadcast studios in Maputaland in Jozini, KwaZulu-Natal.

The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has released the upgraded series of banknotes and coins, which are expected to go into circulation from today.