International donors and African government institutions have to make good on their promises of aid for Africa, the African Monitor said on Tuesday. ”Promises to Africa have been made. The time to act is now,” African Monitor president Anglican Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane said in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
Social grants are one of the most effective means of alleviating poverty among children, Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya said on Monday. Speaking in Johannesburg at a symposium on child poverty, Skweyiya said social grants had been of great help to those children who would have otherwise been subjected to extreme poverty for the rest of their lives.
The 2010 World Cup local organising committee (LOC) has not discussed police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi’s proposal to legalise prostitution and public drinking for the duration of the tournament. Speaking at a press briefing in Johannesburg on Tuesday, LOC chief executive Danny Jordaan said the committee had noted the idea but had not made any decisions.
The continuous decline in economic activity and jobs in the Sedibeng district municipality, which includes Vereeniging, is giving rise to poverty, Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa said on Monday. Shilowa was speaking at the opening ceremony of National Council of Provinces’ (NCOP) sitting at the Saul Tsotetsi Recreation and Sports Centre in Sebokeng.
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/ 25 February 2007
President Thabo Mbeki is busy applying his mind to the appointment of an acting health minister, said his spokesperson Mukoni Ratshitanga on Saturday. This follows the Health Department’s request to have an acting minister appointed while the incumbent Health Minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, is in hospital.
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/ 1 February 2007
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) on Thursday welcomed Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Lulu Xingwana’s pledge to tackle the abuse of farm workers. ”We fully share the minister’s concern about the evictions and … the inhumane treatment and abuse of farm workers,” said Cosatu spokesperson Patrick Craven.
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/ 15 December 2006
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) announced on Friday it will hold its national conference in March 2008, at which it will elect its new leaders. President Fikile Mbalula said this is to ensure that the current executive members have an influence on the outcome of the ANC elections, where a new president will be chosen during the ANC national conference in December 2007.