24 October 2013

Translations

1. Cabinet’s position on prominent issues in the current environment

23 October 2013

Government has observed a continuing trend of public protests that disrupt schooling in various communities and wishes to condemn such actions with the contempt they deserve.

Government calls on all South Africans to unite in protecting the children’s rights to education.

23 October 2013

23 October 2013

The Presidency has noted reports in certain media, suggesting that President Jacob Zuma insinuated that Africans were backward and that they should stop thinking like "Africans in Africa and accept that Gauteng roads were not like some national road in Malawi or Pietermaritzburg or Rustenburg.”
The words have regrettably been taken out of context and blown completely out of proportion.

18 October 2013

Government joins the country’s media industry in commemorating Media Freedom Day which resulted in legislative guarantees of press freedom and editorial independence.  On October 19, 1977, South Africa's apartheid government banned three publications and outlawed 17 anti-apartheid groups during the one-day crackdown, which came to be known as Black Wednesday.

17 October 2013

16 October 2013

The Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA) and Sanlam, co-sponsors and organisers of the MDDA-Sanlam Local Media Awards, have announced that they will invest more in the Awards by introducing new categories for the competition.

The new categories as well as the date for the opening of entries will be announced prior to the opening of the entries for the 2013 competition in November.

16 October 2013

Cabinet has noted the mischievous media reports related to  the Control of Marketing of Alcohol Beverages Bill . The media reports allege a division over the decision to approve the Bill.

14 October 2013

Government congratulates the Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan who was named the 2013 Finance Minister of the Year in the Sub-Saharan category by Emerging Markets. Emerging Markets is a website that provides news, analysis and commentary on economic policy, international economics and global financial markets, with a special focus on emerging markets.

14 October 2013

Government congratulates the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) on the anticipated launch of the new 24-hour online radio station, Ubuntu Radio.

Acting GCIS CEO, Phumla Williams said, “Government will use this innovative undertaking to raise public awareness and stimulate public discourse on South Africa's foreign policy. Ubuntu Radio will be accessible to South Africans and beyond the borders of our country, able to reach many parts of the world”.