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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

From the moment Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela strode out of prison on the 11th of February 1990, we knew that South Africa would be a different place. People across the globe were mesmerised by his wisdom, humility, patriotism and his capacity to forgive. He showed us that despite the divisive racial oppression and hardships that this [...]

Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu (21 October 1918 – 2 June 2011) was a black, female, South African anti-apartheid activist, and the widow of fellow activist Walter Sisulu (1912–2003). She was affectionately known as Ma Sisulu throughout her lifetime by the South African public. In 2004 she was voted 57th in the SABC3′s Great South Africans. She [...]

President Jacob Zuma will for the first time participate in the third BRICS Leaders’ Summit from 14 to 15 April 2011 in Beijing, China. South Africa joined the important bloc of emerging economies in December 2010, in line with the country’s foreign policy to strengthen South-South relations. Discussions will centre on strengthening economic and trade [...]