The ANC’s top decision makers have met to discuss how to deal with ailing state-owned companies whose deteriorating finances have emboldened critics of President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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About 81.3% of those who wrote matric in 2019 passed. What the country is not hearing about from the minister of basic education, Angie Motshekga, is the drop in performance in mathematics.
Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has withdrawn the appointment of Newyear Ntuli as administrator of Usaasa, the government agency responsible for bridging the digital divide in South Africa, just seven days after she announced it.
The State IT Agency and Usaasa are to be run by administrators while they are restructured and their mandates reconfigured.
Regulators Icasa, the Film and Publication Board and the ZA Domain Name Authority will be merged, communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams said on Thursday.
The Post Office is cutting several hundred jobs, the second state-owned company in as many days to detail plans to lay off workers as the government looks to slash its wage bill.
The Presidential Commission on the fourth Industrial Revolution has presented President Cyril Ramaphosa with its draft diagnostic report on the country’s 4IR plan and opportunities available to harness it.
The Competition Commission has appointed Tamara Paremoer as the new divisional manager of mergers and acquisitions with immediate effect.
Government has launched the pilot phase of a new business portal, led by the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission.
National treasury wants to forge ahead with long-stalled plans to sell state assets to shore up the nation’s shaky finances despite opposition from other government departments and labour unions.