Human Settlements Minister Thembi Simelane has commended provincial Human Settlements MECs for ensuring that provinces and metros are on track to use their 2025/2026 allocations to accelerate the delivery of adequate housing and improve household living conditions.
South Africa’s longstanding engineering capability and growing localisation drive took centre stage at the Rail Live 2025 Expo, last week.
The Government of South Africa, through the National Disaster Management Centre (NDMC), will host the Africa, Europe, and Middle East (AEME) Earthquake Response Exercise (ERE) 2025 this week.
The event will take place at Nelson Mandela University in Gqeberha from 1 to 5 December 2025.
According to the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA), this exercise is part of the global programme of the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG).
The National Treasury has published the operating and capital budgets of municipalities as adopted by their respective councils to enable communities to hold their municipal councils to account.
Deputy Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr Nomalungelo Gina, has urged South Africa to strengthen intellectual property (IP) awareness and protection for grassroots innovators, warning that many township and rural entrepreneurs continue to lose ownership of their ideas due to limited IP knowledge.
South Africa has recorded a preliminary trade balance surplus of R15.6 billion in October 2025, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) said.
The South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON), in collaboration with the Afromontane Research Unit (ARU) at the University of the Free State, has installed the highest weather station in Southern Africa, located in the Mont-aux-Sources area of the Maluti-Drakensberg.
Transport Minister Barbara Creecy has called on all South Africans to take personal responsibility for reducing crashes and fatalities on the country’s roads as the 2025/26 festive season begins.
President Cyril Ramaphosa says it is regrettable that the United States of America, which is a founding member of the G20 and which takes over the Presidency of the G20 from South Africa in 2026, chose not to participate in the G20 Leaders’ Summit and the final meetings leading up to it.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has hailed South Africans for their unity, warmth and commitment after the country successfully hosted the G20 Leaders’ Summit and more than 130 meetings throughout the year.
