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By Luyanda Makapela

Pretoria – The Public Service Commission (PSC) has recommended interventions focusing on specific actions to limit the high turnover of Heads of Departments (HODs) across the public service.

Chairperson of the PSC, Professor Stan Sangweni said this followed a report which revealed that the main contributing factor for the turnover of HODs stemmed from legislation and regulations which governed the appointments and termination of executive ...

By Bathandwa Mbola

Pretoria -The Independent Commission for the Remuneration of Public Officer Bearers has recommended an increase of 11 percent in remuneration levels for public office bearers.

This increase is effective form the 1 April 2008. This is an adjustment of the 7.5 percent which was recommended by the commission in April.

The commission, headed by Judge Dikgang Moseneke, is an independent body created in terms of the ...

By Bathandwa Mbola

Harare - Former President Thabo Mbeki will travel to Zimbabwe on Monday to try to assist in a political deadlock over the agreed upon unity government in that country.

Speaking to BuaNews, his spokesperson, Mukoni Ratshitanga said he would meet with the country's political leadership to continue the SADC- mandated facilitation process which he began in March which is designed to end years of political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe.

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By Luyanda Makapela

Johannesburg – The virus which has caused the death of three people has been provisionally identified as the rodent-borne Arenavirus.

The Arenavirus, related to the Lassa Fever Virus of West Africa, causes chronic infections in multimammate mice. Infected mice’s excretion contains the virus which can contaminate human food or house dust.

A joint statement by the National Institute for Communicable Disease (NICD) and the Department of ...

By Edwin Tshivhidzo, tel: (012) 314-2454

Nelspruit – The Mpumalanga Executive Council on Friday observed a moment of silence in remembrance of the victims of a tragic bus accident which claimed the lives of 30 passengers.

The accident happened on Tuesday evening in Mkhondo municipality (Piet Retief) next to the Mahlathini border between Swaziland and South Africa.

It is alleged that the accident happened when the driver apparently ...