The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality elected its council during the first council meeting on Thursday, following the recent Local Government Elections.

The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) is inviting applications for the 2017 academic year.

Sports and Recreation Minister Fikile Mbalula has congratulated track athlete Wayde van Niekerk, on his gold medal win, at the Rio Olympics, currently underway in Brazil.

Government has not yet made a pronouncement on the 2017 universities fees and has called for patience to prevail until then.

As part of the ongoing campaign to protect girls against cervical cancer, the Gauteng Departments of Health and Education are in the process of rolling out a province-wide second dose vaccination campaign to protect girls from being infected with Human Papillomavirus (HPV).

Mugoidwa Secondary School in the Tshivulana Village in Vuwani, Limpopo, was set alight on Tuesday night in an act of vandalism.

Construction of the new Majuba FET College’s Dundee campus is providing thousands of higher-education seeking youth with the opportunity to study in a state-of-the-art college environment.

Minister Angie Motshekga has appointed a Task Team to evaluate textbooks to ensure they are free of bias in terms of race, sex, gender and other forms of discrimination, says the Department of Basic Education.

Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba says the department will assist citizens who lost their Identity Documents during the recent natural disasters to apply for temporary documents to enable them to vote.

Learners from Hlophe High and Remington Primary Schools in the deep rural area of the Uthukela District, walk about 10km every day to reach school.