South Africa

The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has announced that the price of all grades of petrol and diesel will increase from Wednesday this week.

South Africa intends to bring the African agenda to the fore at the upcoming 15th BRICS Summit, which will take place in Johannesburg from 22 – 24 August.

Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, Ronald Lamola, says the National Prosecuting Authority Asset Forfeiture Unit (NPA AFU) has recovered billions of Rands stolen from the state through corrupt activities.

Ending the intricate web of construction site disruptions which threatens lives and thwarts government’s mission of turning the country into a giant construction site that creates jobs and grows the economy, requires a concerted effort from all.

South African Revenue Service (SARS) Commissioner Edward Kieswetter has welcomed an order issued to Tiar Construction for its sole member to cooperate with the liquidators in the administration of the company’s estate.

President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to address the National Dialogue on Coalition Governments, which will be held in Cape Town.

President Cyril Ramaphosa says although load shedding will not be resolved overnight, Eskom and government is making “significant progress” in areas aimed at reducing and eventually remove it altogether.

As South Africa’s netball team, SPAR Proteas, takes on the rest of the world at the Netball World Cup 2023 (NWC2023), the players have encouraged fans to work hard if they want to follow in their footsteps.

As the country prepares to host the first ever Netball World Cup (NWC2023) in Africa from 28 July to 6 August 2023, it is all systems go for South Africa’s netball team, the SPAR Proteas.

Concerted efforts by the provincial multi-disciplinary anti-kidnapping task team to curb incidents of kidnapping in the Western Cape and bring the perpetrators to book yielded positive results with the rescue of a kidnapping victim and arrest of 11 suspects over the weekend.

Over 52 000 households in the Moretele Local Municipality in the North West stand to benefit from a sustainable, reliable and continuous supply of potable water from the Moretele South Bulk Water Supply Scheme Project.

The police’s multi-disciplinary high-density four-day Operation Shanela, which kicked off on Thursday in Kimberley and in other areas, focused on reducing contact and violent crimes, as well as property related crimes in hotspots areas.

Projects are underway to upgrade Eskom's infrastructure in the areas of generation and transmission in effort to increase their capacity and resolve load shedding.

The Energy Regulator says it agrees with the draft ministerial determination to procure 1 000MW of new generation capacity from the Cross-Border Procurement agreement.

The Energy Regulator has approved that the National Transmission Company of South Africa (SOC) Limited (‘NTC’) be issued with a licence to operate a transmission system within the national boundaries of the Republic of South Africa.