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Four farms in the Joe Gqabi District in the Eastern Cape recently received livestock and machinery worth over R35.5 million from the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD).

Learners from underprivileged schools in Stellenbosch were equipped with the necessary skills to build their own portable, solar powered USB phone chargers at a recent solar generation workshop presented by Stellenbosch University (SU).

Thousands of learners at Idlangemabala Secondary School and Nkomazi High School in Mpumalanga now have access to laptops and the internet, thanks to government’s Digital Skills Outreach Programme.

The young people of today may not be fighting against an oppressive apartheid regime like the youth of 1976, but they are still faced with many challenges.

To commemorate Youth Month, the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA), together with the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities (DWYPD) and the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture, have lined up activities to highlight the plight of the youth.

Bronkhorstspruit Hospital in Gauteng is ready for an increase in Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) cases, with a new 150-bed isolation ward opened at the hospital recently.

The second phase of the biggest mass vaccination programme in South Africa is progressing well, with hundreds of thousands of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) vaccines administered in the first two weeks of this phase.

A group of black farmers in Tafelkop in Groblersdal, Limpopo are the proud owners of 189 hectares of land, which they have been farming for the past 25 years.

Sixty years ago, on 31 May 1961, apartheid South Africa became a republic, cutting its ties with the British Empire.

While a ‘republic’ is generally defined as a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, this was not the case in South Africa.

South Africa has been placed on Adjusted Alert Level 2, as government introduces measures to delay the third wave of the virus.

Addressing the nation recently, President Cyril Ramaphosa said after several months of low transmission, the number of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) infections has risen sharply in several parts of the country over the past month.