South Africa's Biovac in talks to manufacture Covid-19 vaccines . A South African company part-owned by the government is in talks with the global Covid-19 vaccine distribution scheme and pharmaceutical companies to produce some of the vaccines the country needs to p...

Mboweni requests to move MTBPS to October 28 . Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has asked for an extended timeframe to table the 2020 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS).

The Speaker of the National Assembly acceded to the request for the Mi...

Dlamini-Zuma extends national state of disaster by 30 days . The national state of disaster declared due to the Covid-19 pandemic will be extended by another month to avoid a second wave of infections, Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkos...

Mabuyane calls out splinter group within the ANC 'parading' as RET . In a sharply worded address at a special provincial executive meeting, African National Congress (ANC) Eastern Cape chair Oscar Mabuyane warned that he would act against party members "casting doubt on...

Covid-19 has put fault lines into sharp focus – Mashaba . ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba on Tuesday said that government’s response to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has thrown into sharp focus the fault lines in South Africa, calling on government to fo...

South Africa won’t meet debt targets, President’s Council says . South Africa won’t be able to meet its finance ministry’s debt targets and it may be undesirable for it to attempt to do so at a time when the economy is being battered by the fallout from the coronavi...

You can now report crooked cops to toll-free IPID number . Police Minister Bheki Cele, together with the executive director of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID), Jennifer Ntlatseng, on Monday announced the launch of a new toll-free number...

Violent crime a threat to community safety, food security – Ramaphosa . President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday called for greater coordination and better communication between the South African Police Service (Saps), business, farming organisations and communities, as well as...

New Expropriation Bill submitted to Parliament . A new Land Expropriation Bill, gazetted on Friday and submitted to Parliament, is set to ensure the implementation of land redistribution and agricultural, human settlement and industrial development. ...

'Fear crimes', including farm attacks, are a priority for cops – Bheki Cele . Police Minister Bheki Cele said all "fear crimes", which include farm attacks and murders, along with cash-in-transit heists and house robberies, are considered a priority by the police.

Cele was in ...