29 October 2011

Engagement between government and South Africa’s news media should be directed towards assisting the country’s continuing transition from apartheid to democracy and building national pride and self-belief, without stifling critical public debate.

Government and media also have to establish and sustain mutual trust and respect for the roles these institutions play in consolidating the democracy envisioned in the Constitution.

Ladies and gentlemen of the media,

Thank you for joining us today.

I have a few announcements to make. These relate to changes to the National Executive of government, the Commission of Inquiry into the Strategic Defence Procurement Packages and the matter relating to the National Police Commissioner.

I have decided to make the following changes to the National Executive.

20 October 2011

Government rejects suggestions that renovations to official residences and offices of the President of the Republic of South Africa are an extravagance or that they compromise social delivery.

Government is clear about the priorities facing the nation and invests appropriately in these priorities – with public works (the basis of a major job-creation drive), health and education together accounting for 70 percent of the national Budget.

22 September 2011

Cabinet held its ordinary meeting in Cape Town on 21 September 2011.

1. Current affairs

15 June 2011

Today the Deputy Minister for Performance Monitoring and Evaluation in the Presidency, Ms Dina Pule, MP, met with the Premier of Western Cape, Ms Helen Zille and the provincial MECs. 

Panel: Richard Baloyi, Minister of Public Service and Administration, Collins Chabane, Minister in the Presidency, Paul Mashatile, Minister of Arts and Culture, Yunus Carrim, Deputy Minister in Corporate Governance

Programme Director,
Deputy Ministers,
Directors-General,
Members of the Media,

28 September 2011

Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) will host the first Public Sector Manager Forum. The Forum will be addressed by the Minister of Health, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi. The discussions will focus mainly on the National Policy on National Health Insurance (NHI) as approved by Cabinet.

19 September 2011

Members of the media are invited to a media briefing of the Governance and Administration Cluster. 

The Deputy Chairperson of the cluster, Minister Richard Baloyi will lead the briefing. 

The details are as follows:

Date: Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Time: 09h00 - 10h00
Venue: Imbizo Media Centre in Parliament, Cape Town

26 September 2011

Ilitha Labantu Board with the support of Statistics South Africa will be hosting a national Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The Summit will be held on the 27th to 29th of September 2011 in KwaZulu-Natal. This national summit is a result of the resolutions from the national summit held in 2010, Cape Town.