Energy filled the room as Gauteng MEC for Human Settlements, Urban Planning, Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Lebogang Maile, addressed the 2025 Youth Investment Indaba. The event gathered policy leaders, business executives, and young entrepreneurs, all united by one vision: empowering Gauteng’s youth to drive the province’s economic transformation.
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The fight against substance abuse gained momentum in Gauteng this week. MEC for Finance and Economic Development Lebogang Maile met with residents, health workers and activists at Orlando Community Hall. The gathering formed part of the Tswa Daar: Phuma Lapho Anti-Substance Abuse Campaign, a provincewide initiative to curb the impact of drugs and alcohol.
Eskom has confirmed that certain parts of Gauteng will experience a scheduled load reduction from Monday, 27 October to Friday, 31 October 2025. The intervention aims to protect transformers and substations from damage caused by illegal connections and overloading.
The announcement comes as Gauteng passes six months without national load shedding, with Eskom working to sustain generation capacity and prevent regional outages.
In a major step for South African healthcare, doctors at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital have achieved a historic first — a successful Matched Unrelated Donor (MUD) Stem Cell Transplant on a 14-year-old boy living with Aplastic Anemia.
The days of tossing traffic fines aside and hoping they disappear in bureaucratic chaos are officially over. From 1 December,…
South Africans living abroad are about to receive a long-awaited upgrade in convenience. The Department of Home Affairs prepares to roll out doorstep passport delivery starting 1 November 2025. The move forms part of the department’s broader push towards digital modernization.
South Africa’s petrol price is more than ten times higher than it was in 1995 a rise that far outpaces…
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has been appointed Acting President of South Africa while President Cyril Ramaphosa conducts a series of diplomatic visits across Southeast Asia. The appointment, effective from 21 to 27 October 2025, allows Godongwana to oversee the country’s affairs as Ramaphosa advances economic and political cooperation with Indonesia, Vietnam, and Malaysia—three nations central to South Africa’s global trade strategy.
A startling incident in the North West has reignited debate over the commercial transport of wild animals. This is after…
Westbury Reeling After Another Gang-related Fatal Shooting Westbury, west of Johannesburg, is once again mourning after two teenagers were killed…