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 | Grey, sleek, bristling with massive cannon and an assortment of machine guns, the French navy's Commandant Birot is well-equipped to patrol Africa's most dangerous stretches of ocean. Read more >>
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 | Amanda Visser Credit providers will from June this year have to change risk models as the credit amnesty by government will mean that credit histories have been wiped out, say lawyers. Read more >>
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 | Government needs to review its policies and legislation on Information Communications Technology (ICT) to ensure that all South Africans have universal affordability and access to communications services. Read more >>
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 | National carrier South African Airways (SAA) is investigating the possibility of using the in-flight relief pilot programme as a meaningful way of developing future pilots. Read more >>
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 | Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has urged communities, particularly those adjacent to the Kruger National Park, to be vigilant and report any suspicious activities that may be linked to rhino poaching. Read more >>
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 | The launch of the National Integrated Human Resource Development Plan is an important step forward in driving and increasing the human resource and skills development base of the country, says Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande. Read more >>
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 | Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has welcomed a discovery by scientists of potent antibodies that could neutralise and kill multiple strains of HIV. Read more >>
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 | Prega Govender Blade Nzimande and Cyril Ramaphosa are going head to head on university fees. Read more >>
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 | Controversial Department of Fisheries acting deputy director-general Desmond Stevens has been removed from his position following the bungled allocation of fishing rights. Read more >>
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 | With South Africa celebrating 20 years of freedom this year, more has to be done to ensure the entry of black people into big business, says President Jacob Zuma. Read more >>
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 | The Solomon Mahlangu Scholarship Fund (SMSF) with initial capital of R10m will be launched on 14 March, says President Jacob Zuma. Read more >>
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 | The Minister for Performance Monitoring and Evaluation in the Presidency, Collins Chabane, says finding solutions to youth unemployment are important to South Africa. Read more >>
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 | Remuneration in foreign countries, that the government cannot match, is frustrating efforts to retain doctors and nurses in SA, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said. Read more >>
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 | Siphiwe Nyathi Teaching and learning at Bosele School for the Blind and Deaf in Mosterlus, outside Groblersdal, will become more exciting with the donation of a specialised computer laboratory. Read more >>
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 | President Jacob Zuma says amendments to the Employment Equity Act and the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act should pave the way for transformation in the print media in the country. Read more >>
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 | Thabiso Mochiko Vodacom is taking industry regulator the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) to court in a bid to stop it from implementing new mobile termination rates. Read more >>
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 | Government is working towards cutting more red tape to allow small and established businesses to increase their competitiveness and to promote local and foreign investment. Read more >>
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 | Despite the sluggish local economic growth brought about by the 2008 global recession, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has not gone back on his 2013 growth projections. Read more >>
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 | Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has announced a large expenditure plan that will be anchored around the National Development Plan (NDP). Read more >>
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 | Ntsakisi Maswanganyi Economic growth expanded more than expected in the fourth quarter of last year supported by a resumption in manufacturing sector activity following strikes in the third quarter. Moderate growth in all other sectors except electricity‚ gas and water contributed to the rise. Read more >>
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 | David Furlonger The South African motor industry's vision of building 1.2m vehicles a year by 2020 is almost certainly unachievable‚ Rick Hanna‚ the head of global consultancy PwC's automotive division‚ said. Read more >>
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 | Plans to use private and public sector funds to create black industrialists gained momentum with the launch last week of an initiative to support small enterprises in the manufacturing sector. Read more >>
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 | Community and small commercial media need to maintain their independence, despite receiving preferential adspend from the government, Media Monitoring SA director William Bird says. Read more >>
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 | The African National Congress (ANC) in the Cape Town council says it wants a referendum on the city's proposed new logo and payoff line. Read more >>
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 | Lionel Moyal Although the South African government has a reputation for openness towards innovation, it has yet to embrace the remarkable opportunity that lies within the mobile sector. Read more >>
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 | A total of 146 rhinos have been poached in South Africa since the beginning of the year, the Department of Environmental Affairs said on Wednesday, 26 February. Read more >>
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 | KwaZulu-Natal has joined Gauteng and the Western Cape in allowing liquor to be sold on Sundays, only a few months after the central government's Department of Health said it would intensify its efforts to curb alcohol abuse by banning advertising. Read more >>
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 | Samona Naidu In just two years, the Granfield Chicken Farm Abattoir has increased its capacity from 9,000 chickens a day in 2012 to its current level of 130,000 chickens being slaughtered daily. Read more >>
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