Delivering a report on provincial finances, the auditor general has refused to be drawn on the move to place key departments under central control.
A total of 36 new schools will be opened in Gauteng for the 2012 academic year, according to Gauteng education minister, Barbara Creecy.
A case of culpable homicide is being investigated after a police van hit and killed two cyclists who were riding on a tandem bicycle in Kliprivier.
Provincial governments may have needed intervention, but why only now?
The Open Democracy Advice Centre has called for stricter action against senior government officials implicated in maladministration.
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/ 13 December 2011
<i>Mpintshi</i> volunteers are helping young people make life choices that will protect them against HIV.
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/ 13 December 2011
The Gauteng education department has launched an after school support initiative which stands to help thousands of pupils in underperforming schools.
Gauteng may have had to ask national government to sort out its troubled finances, but Johannesburg is rated the country’s most productive metro.
The Cabinet’s controversial decision to save three provinces from bankruptcy does not mean extra money for them, says treasury DG Lungisa Fuzile.
The treasury has ordered the government of South Africa’s wealthiest province, Gauteng, to revisit a range of prestigious mega-projects.
Pravin Gordhan says swift action will be taken against officials involved in mismanagement in three provinces placed under government’s control.
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/ 2 December 2011
An ex-NPA employee has been arrested for alleged tender fraud, involving a contract for guarding and special services.
Grade 11s explored their creative side and developed national pride at this year’s Sasol Schools Festival.
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/ 14 November 2011
About R83-million stands to be lost in unspent money allocated for hospital infrastructure in Gauteng, based on the second quarterly report.
Alliance parties have pounced on the public protector’s report on DA-run Midvaal, vowing to have corrupt officials brought to justice.
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/ 11 November 2011
The early development of children was the focus of a major conference in Gauteng last weekend.
Dysfunctional record-keeping keeps watchdog groups and the media in the dark.
The Gauteng government has downplayed a backlog in paupers’ burials, amid concerns over mortuary management at Charlotte Maxeke hospital.
The ANC Youth League concluded its economic freedom march in Pretoria on Friday as they handed over a memorandum of demands at the Union Buildings.
While an angry Alex residential committee plan meetings on Saturday, the Gauteng government has dismissed claims of brewing xenophobic violence.
Acid mine drainage poses a threat to residents and government needs to act swiftly to address the problem, says the Gauteng housing department.
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/ 18 October 2011
Petitions against the proposed Gauteng toll system would be heard in November, the provincial legislature said on Tuesday.
Lobbying has already started for Paul Mashatile to become ANC national chairperson at the party’s crucial 2012 elective conference.
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/ 13 October 2011
A suspected serial rapist has confessed to kidnapping and murdering Roodepoort pupil Louise De Waal, whose body was found in Magaliesburg yesterday.
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/ 13 October 2011
A badly burnt body discovered on a farm in Magaliesburg, near Johannesburg, is thought to be that of a kidnapped Roodepoort schoolgirl.
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/ 11 October 2011
Police have discovered an arms cache containing firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition, and police and army uniforms in a house in Centurion.
Two children were killed and hundreds of people left homeless after tornadoes ripped through Duduza, east of Jo’burg and Ficksburg in the Free State.
Dinokeng game reserve, officially opened on World Rhino day, already boasts lions, leopards, buffalo and white rhinos.
New York professor Nouriel Roubini was bound to be a hit with the predominately pale male suits attending the Discovery Invest Leadership Summit.
A car crash near Jo’burg could explain reports that slain Teasers boss Lolly Jackson’s lawyer had been kidnapped and murdered, police say.
Thembelihle residents have joined forces with their Lenasia neighbours to continue the fight for better services, this time at the negotiating table.
Julius Malema might be facing an ANC disciplinary hearing, but the ruling party has leapt to his defence after he was found guilty of hate speech.