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 | Local economic development is failing in South Africa due to lack of sustainability. This is according to Dr Pierre Voges, CEO of the Mandela Bay Development Agency (MBDA). read more>> |
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 | Mining was one of the key industries in the South African economy with a total income of R408bn in 2012, says Statistician General Pali Lehohla. read more>> |
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 | The Department of Public Works has uncovered R34.9bn in irregular expenditure dating back to 2001, Public Works Minister Thembelani Nxesi says. read more>> |
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 | Ekurhuleni council has asked its residents who are not receiving their printed municipal accounts because of the Post Office strike to use of other options to view their monthly statement. read more>> |
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 | The Presidency has advised anyone who has information that can assist the Seriti Commission of Inquiry to forward the information to assist the commission so that it can be interrogated. read more>> |
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 | Good progress has been made in the provision of basic services over the first quarter of ANC's government's new term in office according to the Chairman of the Governance and Administration Cluster and Home Affairs Minister, Malusi Gigaba. read more>> |
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 | Government has established a central database of disciplinary cases in the public service in order to speed up the resolution of cases. read more>> |
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 | An external evaluation has shown that the Western Cape saw 38% of its 246 agricultural land reform projects in the province failing and another 24% experiencing "challenges". read more>> |
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 | A six-kilometre floating fish farm anchored off Port Elizabeth's popular Hobie Beach is set to go ahead despite an outcry that it will be a magnet for sharks and pose a massive threat to eco-tourism, marine life and investment in Nelson Mandela Bay. read more>> |
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 | Richard Munang and Jessica Andrews The devastating effects of climate change are already being felt across the planet, including in Africa. The 2011 drought-induced famine in the Horn of Africa affected more than 10 million people and claimed 257,000 lives. read more>> |
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 | The Council for Geoscience (CGS) will close 45 open mine shafts in the coming financial year to prevent illegal mining and to protect communities who live near the derelict and abandoned mines in Gauteng, Limpopo and Mpumalanga. read more>> |
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 | The Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation says the continuing vandalism and theft of valves, copper and transformers has a direct bearing on water shortages in many municipalities across South Africa. read more>> |
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 | The Department of Health has appealed to the country's private sector to donate to the Ebola Response Fund to assist the countries affected by the virus. read more>> |
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 | Evan Pickworth President Jacob Zuma's choice of Thomas Moyane as Commissioner of the South African Revenue Services (SARS) fills a gaping hole left after Oupa Magashula resigned in the aftermath of a scandal in July last year. read more>> |
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 | The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has paid taxi cooperative Laphumilanga R18m to get the stalled Integrated Public Transport System (IPTS) working. read more>> |
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 | South Africans from all racial groups came out in their numbers to attend the Heritage Day celebrations held at the James Motlatsi Stadium in Orkney, North West. read more>> |
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 | Minister in the Presidency, Jeff Radebe, has assured South Africans that government will help families to repatriate mortal remains of those citizens, who died in Lagos. read more>> |
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