Fifty-five thousand eight hundred and thirty work opportunities were created during the 2011/12 financial year across all spheres of government in all sectors of the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) in the North West Province. The milestone...
So that’s it then. The South African government has begun to take serious action against corrupt municipalities. In trying to salvage the final bits of local government integrity, the government has begun to drench some corrupt municipalities...
South Africa’s BRICS membership remains crucial for the country’s economic development and that of the continent, International Relations and Cooperation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said last Tuesday. She defended South...
First National Bank (FNB) of Namibia is eager to partner with low-cost housing providers for the construction of houses in the country, which are currently in real short supply. The latest housing index released by FNB last month indicated that...
Eskom denied planning to retrench 17 000 contract workers at its Medupi power plant in Limpopo. “This is not correct,” said spokeswoman Hilary Joffe, last Tuesday. “There are currently more than 17 000 workers on site at Medupi...
Zambia, who are Africa’s leading copper producer, will be investing $120 million to revamp a key copper railway line which links them to South Africa. The overhaul of the line will take a lot of transport away from road and move it back to...
Train rails can now be almost entirely created from recycled metals. Scraps are picked up, melted and molded to create the tracks that keep our trains running.
Pretoria – Importers and exporters attempting to thwart the processes at border posts will come unstuck against the customs monitoring system that the South African Revenue Service (Sars) is introducing. The system has come a long way since the...
Pretoria. – Leaders of African states need the political will to institute infrastructure and agreements to achieve a significant improvement in between their countries. This was the conclusion reached last week at a conference in Kempton Park that...
MBABANE – Swaziland has failed to issue the SADC harmonised driver’s licence because it is yet to incorporate into the local legal framework, a treaty signed in 1996. SADC stands for Southern Africa Development Community. The position under the...
