Since 1994 government has implemented a range of social services to address the country’s triple challenges of poverty, unemployment, and inequality. These services, especially social grants, have…
Government Opinion Pieces
South Africa is a hive of building activity and it is about to get even busier. Key infrastructure projects will be rolled out over the next seven months in water, transport, energy and education…
Coming from an era marked by land dispossession and the exclusion of a large portion of the South African population from benefitting from commercial fishing, the government recognises the rights…
It is a well-known fact that a country where corruption reigns will fail in its endeavours to create a just and prosperous dispensation for its people. Corruption is not only bad for a government…
The callous murder of two young children last week should serve as a shock to our national psyche. In the first incident, police reported that a passer-by found the body of a half-naked four-year-…
Learning history from books is not for everyone. Text often struggles to adequately capture the emotions, sentiments and finer nuances of significant historic events. Nothing brings the past…
There will be an unusual silence in classrooms across the country today. The sounds of teaching and learning will come to a halt for a good purpose.
This morning more than 7 million pupils…
The article in The Star newspaper, 10 September 2013: “Over 1 000 state staff moonlighted” is of grave concern to government.
We remain resolute in our commitment to serving the public and…
There will be an unusual silence in classrooms across the country today. The sounds of teaching and learning will come to a halt for a good purpose.
This morning more than 7 million pupils…
The world's major advanced and developing economies will converge in St Petersburg this week when Russia, as the Group of 20 (G20) Presidency for 2013, will convene the G20 Leaders' Summit from 5…
Fifty years ago Dr Martin Luther King Jrn delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. In it he envisioned a new country where people would "not be judged…
The role of agriculture as a catalyst for job creation and development is outlined in the National Development Plan (NDP), the country’s road map to the elimination of poverty and reduction of…
Nineteen years ago South Africans queued in long queues to cast their votes in the first democratic elections. They voted for a non-racial, non-sexist and democratic South Africa, built on the…
President Nelson Mandela reminded us that offenders are part of society's problem, and rejecting them is not going to solve crime.’
Corrections is not the sole responsibility of the…
There is an old African proverb that says “when an old man dies, a library burns to the ground”. An elder was referred to as a library because he held the knowledge, history, wisdom and cultural…
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No roads, no growth. It’s as simple as that. This lies at the heart of what drives the SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral).
It plans, designs, constructs, operates, rehabilitates and…
Every journey begins with just a single step; most are filled with joy and the promise of a safe arrival. There are however times when taking the first step requires untold sacrifice.
In…
Earlier this year social media across the globe was abuzz with discussions and comments when former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared at the Women in the World Summit in New York that…
To most travellers, the gleaming facade of the departure terminal of an airport is a gateway to an exciting opportunity for leisure or business travel. For others it holds the promise of a new…
