Mboweni, Reserve Bank kick off loan guarantee scheme to save banks, consumers . A multi-billion loan guarantee scheme announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa last month is set to begin operating from Tuesday, with the assistance of the country’s major banks, including FNB, Investec...

Mkhize salutes nurses who died of Covid-19 in International Nurses Day speech . Health Minister Zweli Mkhize on Tuesday dedicated this year’s International Nurses Day to the health practitioners who died in the ongoing arduous battle against the novel coronavirus (Covid-19).

“As...

SA's Covid-19 cases pass the 11 000 mark with biggest yet daily increase . The number of confirmed Covid-19 infections in South Africa have increased by 698 to 11 350 in the past day, the health ministry said on Tuesday.

It is the highest daily increase of cases seen in the...

Eskom progresses with generation unit repairs at Medupi . State-owned power utility Eskom has announced that its Unit 3 at Medupi power station is up and running following a 75-day outage to repair major design defects.

The unit has now reached its full gen...

R350 Covid-19 social relief grant applications now open . Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu on Monday announced the launch of government’s Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress Grant for qualifying South Africans.

The Social Development Department (SDD)...

Ramaphosa urges citizens to prepare for ‘new reality’ with Covid-19 . President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday warned South Africans that they may have to prepare for a new reality in which the fight against coronavirus (Covid-19) will be a part of daily life.

The total num...

Lockdown: Obey the rules or face closure, Makhura warns businesses . Gauteng premier David Makhura has threatened to close all businesses in the province that fail to comply with Level 4 lockdown regulations.

Makhura also warned that he would shut down companies if wo...

Early parole of some inmates could reduce prison overcrowding – Presidency . In a bid to flatten the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic in correctional facilities, President Cyril Ramaphosa has authorised the parole of selected categories of sentenced offenders, whic...

We must end ‘lockdown crisis’ – Steenhuisen . As South Africa entered its seventh week of lockdown, Democratic Alliance (DA) interim leader John Steenhuisen claimed that the country was no longer dealing with a coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis but ra...

'Implementation of lockdown has made us a begging nation' - advocate responds to Presidency . Advocate Nazeer Cassim SC has hit back at the Office of the President after it wrote a sharply-worded letter to the high-profile advocate and his colleague Erin-Dianne Richards.

In an email dated 6 M...