South Africa

While security concerns persist in parts of southern Africa, the region remains “generally stable and peaceful”.

The City of Cape Town has announced that electricity has been switched on for the 46 families, who were recently relocated from Eskom’s National Transmission Company (NTCSA) Tower 37 site in Langa as part of efforts to improve living conditions.

Western Cape Infrastructure MEC Tertuis Simmers has handed over 20 Breaking New Ground (BNG) housing units to beneficiaries of the R113 million Bergsig housing project in Calitzdorp on Friday.

The City of Cape Town is calling on residents to comment on the draft Local Spatial Development Framework (LSDF) for Masiphumelele and the surrounding areas in the Far South.

The Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) session in Geneva, which aimed to deliver a binding global treaty on plastic pollution, ended without agreement on a global plastics treaty due to divisions between nations and procedural shortcomings.

The City of Cape Town’s Urban Mobility Directorate has advised the public of the temporary lane and full road closures taking place along Racecourse Road in the Lansdowne and Kenwyn area.

Southern African Development Community (SADC) Executive Secretary, Elias Magosi, has reaffirmed the regional bloc’s “unequivocal” commitment to promoting lasting peace in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

President Cyril Ramaphosa has arrived in Antananarivo, Madagascar, ahead of the Southern African Development Community’s 45th Ordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government.

The inaugural National Convention of the National Dialogue has concluded with a resounding call for citizens to take ownership of shaping South Africa’s future.

The Republic of Namibia has pledged to scale up investment in water and sanitation infrastructure through domestic financing, concessional loans, grants and private partnerships in a bid to ensure universal access to safe water and adequate sanitation.

With preparations underway for its 2026 – 2030 new Strategic Action Plan, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has explored more effective ways to leverage its position and status to attract more climate-related financing to the sector.

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) Africa Hub has announced its commitment to co-convene a landmark leadership symposium aimed at addressing systemic challenges that hinder African countries from unlocking the bottom and middle tiers of the Africa Water Investment Programme (AIP) investment pyramid.

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President Cyril Ramaphosa has encouraged South Africans to keep engaging in discussions that lay bare their concerns, hopes for the future, and how they envision a better tomorrow for themselves and the country.

Gauteng MEC for Roads and Transport, Kedibone Diale-Tlabela, has met with all public transport operators in Soweto as part of efforts to find lasting solutions to issues affecting the sector.