Reports that the 2009 General Election will cause instability in the public service are untrue, says Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi.

Metro cops are to get a pay hike, after minimum, median and maximum salary bands were increased to be on par with those of the city.

Despite a global economic slowdown, resulting largely from rising food and fuel prices, South Africa's economy is resilient enough to deal with the unfolding current economic climate.

SABMILLER, the world's largest brewer, expects to spend about $2bn in capital expansion in this financial year, about half of which would be spent on growth projects.

MINING services company VR Steel is testing and refining a new truck body at Sishen Mine, which it hopes will put it in a good position to bid for a multimillion-rand contract at the Northern Cape mine in the next

STEPHEN Saad's announcement this week that Aspen Pharmacare will distribute and subsequently start manufacturing four GlaxoSmithKline-branded drugs, harks back to the Aspen CEO's start in the world of pharmaceuticals.

GOVERNMENT-owned oil and gas company PetroSA yesterday said it was looking for a strategic partner in the proposed $11bn Coega oil refinery.

A comprehensive Skills Development Programme has been developed to train traditional leaders on Integrated Development Plans (IDP) and Community Development Workers (CDWs).

Law enforcement on Limpopo's roads is set to improve when 150 newly trained traffic officers from the Mutale local municipality in Thohoyandou graduate on Friday.

Senior officers of General Inspection Organs (IGFAA) of the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) leave this Wednesday for South Africa, where for five months they will attend a upgrading course on the management and control of materials in use at FAA.

South Africans need to be taught how to sustain themselves to address poverty in communities, says Operation Hunger Deputy Chair, Dr Selma Browde.

A delegation of the Angolan ruling party's women wing OMA, Wednesday left for Johannesburg, South Africa, to attend the 11th National Conference of the African National Congress (ANC) female league, scheduled for 02 - 06 July.

MEDIAN house prices fell to R550000 last month, a contraction of 11,3% year on year compared with the median house price of R620000 in June last year, according to the Standard Bank residential property gauge released yesterday.

Women in the North West have been encouraged to join the provincial branch of the South African Network for Women in Transport (SANWIT) to enable them to access opportunities in the transport sector.

It is not as if we are not aware of the problem. Mugabe has arrived at the most loathing place on our conscience, sharing space with Idi Amin of Uganda. But we fail to say so openly.

Applications for volunteers for the 2009 Confederations Cup South Africa opened on Tuesday, with 42 application centres set up across Johannesburg.

The private sector has been challenged to work in partnership with government to help fight Tuberculosis (TB) in the workplace.

THE leadership of our law enforcement agencies has been very busy over the past year, but sadly not always with law enforcement. The Scorpions, whose mandate it is to combat organised crime, have spent much of the year fighting the

HOW low can we go? In the same week that former president Nelson Mandela, living proof that reconciliation and the peaceful resolution of conflict are possible, celebrated his 90th birthday to international acclaim, his ultimate successor as president of the

AFRICAN National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) president Julias Malema and Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi may appear in the Equality Court for refusing to retract their "kill for Zuma" statements.