Being a teenager often means having lots of emotional ups and downs. School, parents, friends, relationships can be confusing and frustrating – things can be great one minute and horrible the next. Many people believe that sadness is just a normal part of growing up, but teens who feel really down and unhappy for two [...]

Honourable Speaker of the National Assembly, Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces; Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly and Deputy Chairperson of the NCOP; Deputy President of the Republic, Honourable Kgalema Motlanthe; Former Deputy President FW De Klerk, Former Deputy President Baleka Mbete, Honourable Chief Justice of the Republic, and all esteemed members of [...]

54 million – The number of workbooks delivered to 26 000 schools in 2012 compared to 24 million distributed in 2011.

1800 – The number of suspects that have been arrested due to tip-offs sent by the public to Crime Line via its 32211 SMS service and its website http://www.crimeline.co.za.

                    Mita Marobe holds a photo of her 6-month old baby Kgosientsile who was allegedly kidnapped by his nanny in Hestea Park in Pretoria. The six-month-old baby boy kidnapped by his nanny from his Pretoria North home has been found, a report has said. According to Eyewitness News, [...]

President Jacob Zuma presents the State of the Nation Address (SoNA) to a joint sitting of Parliament at 19:00 on Thursday, 9 February 2012. President Zuma invites South Africans to submit comments that they would like him to consider mentioning in the Address. Submit your comments using: the President’s personal Twitter account @SAPresident , or by using #PresidentSona [...]

Johannesburg – President Jacob Zuma congratulated performer Yvonne Chaka Chaka on being the first African woman to receive the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Crystal Award. “We applaud the wonderful work she does promoting quality health care and other social development issues in the continent,” Zuma said in a statement. “We are immensely proud that the World Economic [...]

Cybercrime is generally defined as any form of criminal activity involving the use of computers and the Internet. Also refered to as computer crime, electronic crime, e-crime, netcrime and hi-tech crime. Below is the specific text of the Electronic Communications and Transactions (ECT) Act 25 of 2002, relevant to the criminal offences: CHAPTER XIII CYBER CRIME [...]

7 054 The number of work, business and corporate permits  issued in the quarter April – June 2011. This is part of attracting scarce skills into the country and boosting the economy, which will help with job creation.

President Jacob Zuma wishes to congratulate all the matriculants who sat for their National Senior Certificates examinations in 2011 and has hailed the ascending pass rate as a step in the right direction. President Jacob Zuma would like to further give special acknowledgment to those who demonstrated outstanding performance in various subjects last year. A [...]