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The Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) will launch a R1 billion incentive scheme in support of the Black Industrialist Programme.

Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown says stateowned companies like Eskom and Transnet have and continue to create jobs in communities where they operate.

The Port of Ngqura is playing an important role in growing the economy and creating jobs in the Eastern Cape.

Government’s efforts to create jobs have been given a boost by the Build Programme, led by stateowned enterprises.

After spending 22 years as a police officer, Captain Madeleine van der Westhuizen never thought she would one day be named Detective of the Year.

The Department of Water and Sanitation and Rand Water have partnered in a R298 million programme to provide water to 24 villages in Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga.

The provincial governments of the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) have partnered to strengthen agriculture and rural development in the country.

Some three years ago government took on an ambitious goal to rid the country of mud schools and improve the learning environments of South African children.

Less than three years later, the Department of Basic Education has launched just over 100 schools across the country.

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga handed over the 99th school that was demolished and built from scratch in Riverton in the Western Cape recently.

Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Pravin Gordhan urged delegates attending a South African Local Government Association (SALGA) National Members Assembly (NMA) to do more with less.

In his speech at the NMA held in Midrand recently, the Minister said: “We have financial limitations in South Africa. The question is how do you do more with less and for the next few years, that’s all you’re going to hear.”