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The Human Development Agency is expected to build about 500 000 houses in the next five years as a way of responding to the country’s human settlement issue.

Government is stepping up efforts to ensure that it provides housing to people in well-located areas, where they have access to both economic opportunities and the services they need.

South Africans will go to the polls for the sixth general elections on May 8.

The date was announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa during his State of the Nation Address (SONA).

“This is an opportunity for our people to exercise their hard-won right to determine the direction of this country,” the President said in a joint sitting of the two Houses of Parliament.

Peer pressure and the struggles of being unemployed are some of the things that could lead a person into a life of crime – and also land them behind bars.

Vuk’uzenzele spoke to Legal Aid South Africa’s national legal manager Dick Khubana to shed light on the sentencing of different crimes.

PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA has vowed to get even tougher on corruption and to recover assets that have been illegally acquired.

An investigative directorate – tasked specifically with probing corruption and associated offences – is on the cards for the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA).

President Cyril Ramaphosa made this announcement during his second State of the Nation Address.

President Cyril Ramaphosa not only spoke about government’s five most urgent tasks during his State of the Nation Address (SONA), but also announced that he intends to proclaim 8 May 2019 as the national election date.

During President Ramaphosa’s second SONA he emphasised that whilst government is undertaking a broad range of critical work, it has five urgent tasks for the year ahead.

Grapple. Strengthen. Plan. These words best define the essence of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address, which laid out strategies for tackling current challenges, for deepening the gains already made on many fronts and for plotting the nation’s course forward.

As the President spoke about the state of the nation, a number of interesting figures emerged:

Investment and job creation

10 – The number of industrial parks in rural or township areas that have been revitalised, with another six to follow.

Modikeng Makhele has had first-hand experience of the ups and downs of starting and running a business.

The 36-year-old owns a juice manufacturing business called Buta Industries, which operates from the garage of his home in Botshabelo in the Free State. The company produces fruit juice, fruit nectar, cordials and dairy blends.

Equipped with a food biotechnology degree from the University of the Free State, Makhele left his job at a soft drink manufacturing company in Johannesburg in 2011 to become his own boss.

Drop everything for 30 minutes and read a book - that’s the message from Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga as she jumpstarted the reading revolution.