The Gauteng provincial government has welcomed Cabinet's approval of toll tariffs for the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project.

The Gauteng ANC is facing the kind of organisational paralysis last seen in the late 1990s.

Motorsport SA (MSA) says it understands the Gauteng government's decision to cancel its international contracts with the sport beyond 2010.

Controversial consultancy firm 3P will not be returning to work for Gauteng's health department - despite winning its court case against the province.

The Gauteng government confirmed that the temporary shelters established for the fugitives in the province areas are to be closed this Friday.

Five years after its developers announced that the construction of the Kaizer Chiefs Stadium would be complete by this year, not a brick has been laid. Construction work on the Bob van Reenen stadium precinct in Krugersdorp, earmarked by Chiefs as their home venue, was expected to begin in July 2006 and it was to be ready to use in 2008.

Classes at all the Tshwane University of Technology's campuses were suspended amid student protests on Tuesday, authorities said. "The decision was taken due to the prevailing atmosphere on campus and the potential for violent clashes between striking and non-striking students," vice-chancellor Errol Tyobeka said.

Saving electricity and promoting energy efficiency must be a top priority in 2008, Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa said in his State of the Province address on Monday. "The future was rosy on December 31 2007, but suddenly everyone is buying candles and researching property in Perth," Shilowa said in Johannesburg. He also discussed transport improvements planned for 2008.

Gauteng faces huge classroom shortages and the government does not have the resources to cope, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Tuesday. DA spokesperson David Quail said that in the next four to six years, the Gauteng department of education will require 9 566 additional classrooms.