President Cyril Ramaphosa says that his administration is ramping up its fight against corruption in South Africa by finally setting up his long-announced National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council. The council, which has been promised for a number of years, will advise the president on matters related…

South Africa’s governing party is likely to win the country’s next national elections in 2024 even as its support slips further in major cities, a survey showed. The African National Congress, which has led South Africa since apartheid ended in 1994, will probably win more…

The South African medical fraternity is suffering from an exodus of nurses and doctors, leaving public hospitals in particular understaffed. Sibongiseni Delihlazo, the spokesperson for the Democratic Nursing Organisation of SA (Denosa), said at a recent meeting of the East, Central and Southern African College…

Statistics South Africa has published its latest Victims of Crime (VoC) survey, showing that thousands of crimes went unreported over the last year. The survey gives supplementary perspective to the latest official crime statistics last published by the South African Police Service (SAPS) earlier this month,…

Public servants who are not entitled to receive the R350 Social Relief of Distress Grant (SRD) are applying and receiving it, despite it being illegal to do so. Answering a recent parliamentary Q&A, acting public service and administration minister Thulas Nxesi said that the department…

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) is piloting a new initiative to make it more effective and easier to investigate and recover assets that are suspected of having been acquired through unlawful activities. In a joint statement on behalf of SARS, the National Prosecuting Authority…

The South African Police Service has published a new national instruction outlining how officers and members of the SAPS need to deal with children in conflict with the law. The instructions come after the Department of Justice and Correctional Services raised the age of criminal…

Statistics South Africa has published its updated national poverty lines for 2022. Poverty lines are important tools that allow for the statistical reporting of poverty levels and patterns and the planning, monitoring, and evaluation of poverty reduction programmes and policies. The primary purpose of the…

The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment has published a revised list of tentative sites in South Africa for consideration to be inscribed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage List. The local listing and revision process was last…

The Department of Justice and Correctional Services says that it is drafting new laws to enable credit bureaus and other credit groups to blacklist South Africans who have defaulted on their maintenance payments. The Maintenance Amendment Act 9 of 2015 was signed into law in…

Cabinet has recently approved a number of new bills that have subsequently been submitted to parliament, including new legislation which focuses on financial crime, divorce and substances. There are over 53 bills containing a mixture of significant, medium-level, and minor legislation that are currently before…

The minister of tourism, Lindiwe Sisulu, has announced a partnership with middle eastern airline Emirates as domestic flight capacity remains constrained. At a media briefing on Thursday (1 September), Sisulu said that during a visit to Dubai, bilateral agreements were made with the middle-eastern airline…