South Africa

The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has issued alerts for heavy rain and flooding over parts of the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.

Water and Sanitation Deputy Minister, Sello Seitlholo has conducted a site inspection of the Vaalharts Main Canal in Hartswater in the Northern Cape following the drowning of a 13-year-old boy.

The Department of Health has rebuffed claims that government is neglecting the issue of children dying from suspected food poisoning.

Deputy Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Narend Singh, will lead the South African delegation to the 16th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD COP 16) in Cali, Colombia.

Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube and Gauteng MEC for Education, Matome Chiloane, are monitoring the start of the 2024 NSC Exams in Soshanguve East Secondary School in Tshwane.

Detectives attached to the Western Cape Provincial Serious and Violent Crimes Unit are probing the circumstances that led to the death of three males aged 27, 30 and 34 and the attempted murder of a 14-year-old male on Sunday at around 17:00 in Seine Street in Delft.

Collaboration between South African Police Service (SAPS) units has secured the arrest of a foreign national and the confiscation of counterfeit goods with an estimated value of R48 634.

With just hours to go before the first paper in the 2024 National Senior Certificate examinations is written, Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube says the department is ready to administer the examinations.

The Eastern Cape Provincial Police Commissioner, Lieutenant General Nomthetheleli Mene, has mobilised all available resources to find the perpetrators behind the killing of five people in Bityi, near Mthatha, on Friday.

Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy Majodina has urged her African counterparts to take immediate action on water conservation, warning that delaying critical measures will be detrimental to the continent’s future.

With the matric exams set to get underway tomorrow, the Department of Basic Education has implemented robust measures to protect the integrity of the 2024 National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has praised the late former Finance Minister Tito Mboweni for being a man of great stature who never lost his ability to connect with people from all walks of life.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has lauded the late former Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni as a man who understood the assignment, describing him as a trailblazer who has left an enduring legacy in South Africa's public and economic spheres.

Former Minister of Finance and Governor of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), Tito Mboweni has been remembered for his culinary skills, humour and as someone who was kind.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed his condolences following the passing of former Minister of Labour and High Commissioner to Canada, Membathisi Mphumzi Shepherd Mdladlana.