South Africa

Spaza shop owners and other food handling facilities have until  28 February 2025, to register their businesses. 

The National Research Foundation (NRF) has announced the renewal of its partnership with the FirstRand Empowerment Foundation (FREF), aimed at deepening transformation in the country’s academic cohort.

The Department of Social Development has urged students at Mthimba Campus of Ehlanzeni TVET College, near Hazyview, Mpumalanga, to take their studies seriously and stay away from drugs.

Social Development Deputy Minister Ganief Henricks has told the portfolio committee on Social Development the scourge of substance and drug abuse is a challenge not only for South Africa but globally.

The department of Social Development has once again successfully repatriated a young South African boy from Zimbabwe who has been missing for almost two years.

The South African Police Service (SAPS) has uncovered a drug syndicate selling steroids, scheduled medicine, stimulants and other performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) online.

The South African Police Service (SAPS) has responded to queries on new police trainee recruitment for 2024/2025.

All eyes are on Gqeberha as the city hosts the first G20 Employment Working Group (EWG) meeting, set to take place from 18-21 February 2025 at the renowned Boardwalk International Convention Centre.

Tourism Minister Patricia de Lille on Wednesday welcomed the Department of Home Affairs' significant progress made on the visa regime in recent months.

With the deadline for the registration of spaza shop owners and other food handling facilities drawing closer, government has warned the public against fronting for business owners who do not possess the required documentation for trading.

Spaza shop owners and other food handling facilities are left with exactly 13 days to register their businesses with municipalities to ensure they are compliant with the law.

The Portfolio Committee on Social Development has called on the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) to ensure that all beneficiaries have access to Postbank sites so they can migrate to the new Postbank Black Cards before the deadline to receive their March 2025 social grants.

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has welcomed the dismissal of an official from the Mpumalanga Department of Public Works, Roads, and Transport in connection with a fraud, corruption, theft, and money laundering scandal related to Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

Minister of Electricity and Energy, Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, says the department has designed a private sector investment instrument to mobilise resources for modernising South Africa’s energy infrastructure.

Eastern Cape Premier Lubabalo Oscar Mabuyane has commended the Hawks for their swift and successful action in solving the case of a nine-year-old girl, who was kidnapped outside Dreamland Primary School in Buffalo Flats, East London.