26 January 2000

The Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) will be holding media briefings for Ministers from 7 to 11 February 2000 at the Tuynhuis Goodhope Auditorium, Cape Town. While GCIS, as it did in June 1999, takes responsibility only for briefings by the executive arm of government, other organs of government and political parties represented in Parliament are welcome to use the opportunity, where there are vacant slots, to brief the media.

2 December 1999

History will be made in Tombo, near Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape, when the first one-stop government service centre is launched on Thursday, 9 December 1999.

The intersectoral initiative, supported by President Thabo Mbeki, will bring integrated services of the government to the Kei District where communities need them most.

15 September 1999

In November last year, Cabinet announced its preferred suppliers for the procurement of defence equipment for the SANDF.

3 August 1999

The InterMinisterial Committee on Disaster Management, chaired by the Minister for Provincial and Local Government, met today to review progress in achieving readiness with regard to the Y2K phenomenon. As the remediation projects approach completion the focus is falling on the review of contingency plans and the testing of their suitability for Y2K.

17 May 1999

The Inter-Ministerial Committee is pleased to announce that arrangements are in place for the inauguration of the new President of South Africa on 16 June 1999.

It is expected that numerous Heads of State will be attending this special event in our history. The formal inauguration ceremony will take place in the Amphitheatre of the Union Buildings on the morning of 16 June 1999.

8 April 1999

In response to media queries, the GCIS wishes to clarify the main issues pertaining to its recent campaign.

1. What was the outcome of the meeting between opposition parties and Cabinet on 31 March 1999?

29 April 1999

Background

It is normal practice in most democracies that, during an election period, particular attention is paid to ensuring that government communication structures and officers do not act in a way that advantages or disadvantages participants in the electoral contest.

1 March 1999

Government Communications (GCIS) rejects in the strongest terms the allegation by some parties that the insert in newspapers about the implementation of government programmes constitutes ANC propaganda.

18 May 1998

Today will be recorded in history as the day on which the former South African Communication Service (SACS) - the information machine of the former apartheid government - was buried. In its wake, a new Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) will be born when Dr Essop Pahad, Deputy Minister in the Office of the Deputy President, rises in Parliament for the Communications Budget Vote.

27 January 2003

In mid-January 2003, the Minister of Transport, Dullah Omar, having undergone medical tests, was informed by his medical team that he had been diagnosed to have Hodgkins-Classic, a form of cancer of the lymph nodes. An eight months course of treatment has been prescribed. Over this period, he must receive therapy for one week in each month. The rest of the month requires no treatment.