Cosatu’s demonstration blocks Gauteng’s highways, Egyptians take to the streets again and the royal family make a big announcement.
It was gridlock on Gauteng’s highways as Cosatu led a drive-slow in protest of the controversial e-tolling system.
The Gauteng provincial treasury has been re-established as a separate and autonomous body outside of the province’s finance department.
Fraudulent activities come under the spotlight at conference
Tough task ahead for the head of Gauteng’s treasury.
South Africa is blessed with strong capital markets, a competitive private sector, proud democracy and a robust economic outlook.
South Africans are flocking to urban areas in search of a better life and are putting strain on scarce resources, writes Lynley Donnelly.
Until politics takes a back seat, people will continue to die in the province’s hospitals.
Planning to revamp a province-wide public transport system is not to be taken lightly, particularly in an economic hub like Gauteng.
Anyone that has used the Gautrain can attest to the pleasure and ease of using a properly-designed public transport system.
Eve Fairbanks tells a story of a takeaway shop, owned by an Egyptian, that has become the most Mzansi spot in Melville.
Gauteng’s second-best municipality seems to have a grip on things, but service delivery still falls short, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
It has to be a South African record, the gap between the revelations of alleged misdemeanours on the part of Humphrey Mmemezi and his resignation.
It is a beacon of hope, yet the state’s cystic fibrosis unit at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital might be closed.
The problem with the budget allocated for social development services is nowhere near adequate to meet the needs in the sector, writes Jackie Loffell.
This is a shortened version of the Gauteng Department of Social Development’s budget speech delivered on May 29 2012 by MEC Nandi Mayathola-Khoza.
Social development in SA is beset with numerous challenges as government tries to balance addressing short-term priorities with development needs.
Big plans are underway to improve compliance with supply-chain management processes.
Vibrant, equitable and sustainable communities contributing towards food security, protected and enhanced environmental assets and natural resources.
While Gauteng isn’t known as an agricultural force, farming plays a major role in the province’s economy.
One of the priority areas on which the Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Rural Development focuses is supporting farmers.
The Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Rural Developemt needs to sell itself better. It needs to show that agriculture is more than a rumour.
The SA National Roads has been interdicted and restrained from levying and collecting tolls, the High Court in Pretoria ruled on Saturday.
Sanral and the Department of Transport have decided to postpone the implementation of the e-tolling for a month to "finalise regulations".
Suspended ANCYL spokesperson Floyd Shivambu has apologised to journalist Carien Du Plessis after a settlement was reached in a case against him.
Minibus taxis and buses will have to pay e-tolls as from Monday when the system is implemented, until regulations regarding exemptions are finalised.
The City of Johannesburg has welcomed allegations made against metro police officers in a Corruption Watch report.
The Democratic Alliance’s Neil Campbell has accused Sanral of misleading the public by displaying only one tariff on its sign boards at toll gantries.
Prices hikes for everything have put the poor and middle class under strain and they are going to have to make some adjustments.
Protesters have blocked off access to Kya Sand in Jo’burg, saying they no longer have the patience to wait for a meeting scheduled later in the day.
The top three winners in the Excellence in Special Needs Education category.
The top three winners in the Excellence in Secondary School Teaching category.