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Gauteng MEC for Roads and Transport Ismail Vadi was assaulted by metered taxi drivers in Johannesburg on Monday shortly after he announced that his department had started the process of issuing operating licences for Uber taxis.Vadi had just

Prof Jonathan Jansen will step down as Vice-Chancellor and Rector of the University of the Free State on August 31. The university said in a statement Jansen will take up an invitation as a Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral

The presidency on Sunday slammed media reports on the “imminent arrest” of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan.“The presidency has noted the story in the Sunday Times alleging an imminent arrest of the minister of finance,” President Jacob Zuma’s

The arrest of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan will be a disaster for South Africa and cause an economic earthquake and make “9/12” look like a minor economic tremor, the Democratic Alliance said on Sunday.“Rumours reported today [Sunday] suggest

Following its announcement on Saturday that no load shedding is expected to be necessary this winter, Eskom has provided further insight into its power generation mix and output capacity.“Eskom supplies approximately 96 percent of South Africa’s

A search operation conducted by Beaufort West police yielded a massive haul of mandrax tablets worth R10-million in the early hours of Sunday morning, Western Cape police said.“The seizure of 200,000 mandrax tablets that were transported in a bakkie

CAPE TOWN – The agriculture, forestry, and fisheries department (DAFF) and other government agencies were on Saturday in the process of seizing an illegal foreign fishing vessel that fisheries department officials boarded and captured on

The human settlements department hopes to have provided over six million houses and housing opportunities by 2019.Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu made this bold declaration on Friday during the launch of the Belhar Gardens Rental Estate in

Eskom says it is well on its way to achieving its energy availability target and expects no need for load shedding this winter.“This week we achieved a significant milestone in relation to our target of 80:10:10 (ie, 80 percent energy availability