South Africa

The Department of Employment and Labour will from today host a series of commercial diving workshops to discuss the recently unveiled sector regulations.

Consultations between the Department of Water and Sanitation and key stakeholders across the country are underway to determine bulk water tariffs for the 2022/23 financial year.

South Africa now has 3 997 975 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases, 702 of which were reported on Monday.

KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala says the July 2021 social unrest left many households in untold suffering and desperation.

Fraudsters behind a R7.8 million swindle have each been handed a seven year prison sentence for fleecing unsuspecting conveyance law firms.

Four suspects were expected to appear in the Lenasia Magistrate’s Court on Monday for being in possession of allegedly stolen copper cables valued at R10 million.

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) will investigate matters of alleged corruption and maladministration at the Eastern Cape Health Department and the Midvaal Local Municipality based in Gauteng.

Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Barbara Creecy, has called for comments on the recently gazetted Draft White Paper on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity in South Africa.

Eskom says it is doing everything in its power to ensure that more generation capacity is added to South Africa’s ailing power system.

The Gauteng Legislature’s Portfolio Committee on Community Safety has joined the many voices across South Africa in condemning this weekend’s brutal shooting and killing of 15 patrons at a tavern in Orlando, Soweto.

Eskom Chief Executive Andre de Ruyter has assured South Africans that the power utility is “working extremely hard” to resolve the current load shedding crunch which has gripped the country.

South Africa has detected its third case of monkeypox after a 42-year-old man from Switzerland, currently on holiday in Limpopo, was confirmed to have contracted the viral disease.

Police Minister Bheki Cele says police are hot on the heels of the suspects that mowed down 15 people at a tavern in Soweto on Saturday evening.

Chief Whip of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), Seiso Mohai, is leading a South African parliamentary delegation to the Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum (SADC PF) 51st Plenary Assembly Session taking place in Malawi from 11 to 14 July 2022.

The Department of Health and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) is collaborating with the World Health Organisation (WHO) to assess the risk for local transmission of Monkeypox.