Water and Sanitation (DWS) Minister Senzo Mchunu, has called on municipalities to allocate budget for the replacement of old and ageing infrastructure, as they are the main causes of water losses and sewer spillages.“We need to stop the leaks leading t…
The Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities has challenged communities to take responsibility in realising a South Africa free from gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF).The department made the call at the closing of the 16 Days of…
BETHLEHEM – The crime prevention soft approach on 16 Days of activism against women and children was taken to rural areas spreading the gospel on gender-based violence by women and men in blue attached to community outreach, Social Crime Prevention.The…
Former Justice of the Constitutional Court Judge, Albie Sachs, says the formation of an independent body or commission with powers akin to those of a Chapter Nine institution, should be considered in the fight against corruption.Sachs was speaking duri…
The South African Revenue Service’s (SARS) efforts to increase and expand the use of data to improve the integrity of outcomes and enhance its capability to detect instances of non-compliance is beginning to bear fruit.This much was evident in the agen…
President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged global leaders to come together to fully fund the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator’s new Strategic Plan to continue saving lives and end the pandemic.The President was addressing the eighth meeting of the A…
Seventy percent of those who have been admitted to hospital are those who are unvaccinated, revealed Health Minister, Dr Joe Phaahla, on Friday.According to the Minister, while scientists are still conducting more studies if vaccines work against the O…
The Department of Health has announced that the first recipients of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine booster shot will likely get it in January.The department’s Deputy Director-General, Dr Nicholas Crisp, told the media that the first qualifiers to the boos…
The Department of Health said the rolling out of the second dose of the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine to children got off to a good start on Thursday.This is after the department opened the Electronic Vaccination Data system (EVDS) for the second dose of the…
