Africa has a shortage of about one million health workers, a World Health Organisation (WHO) official said in Johannesburg on Thursday on the margins of an African health ministers’ conference. ”Africa is a real catastrophe,” the executive director of the Global Health Workforce Alliance told reporters
Africa needs to rely less on donors and pump more money into its public health systems, Botswana’s Health Minister said in Johannesburg on Tuesday while briefing journalists following the opening of the third ordinary session of the African Union Conference of Ministers of Health.
Africa needs to become more self-reliant to improve the health of its people, the chairperson of the African Union’s commission said in Johannesburg on Tuesday. Professor Alpha Konare said African countries have to make sure they get better prices for their raw materials and stop the wars that prevent health strategies from being carried out.
The preparations for the Soccer World Cup need to provide infrastructure and services that will last beyond 2010, Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa said on Thursday. ”Our people expect the games to leave a lasting legacy …,” he said at the launch of the 2010 Strategic Framework in Johannesburg.
Black South Africans are six times more likely to get infected with the HI virus than other race groups, the Health Department told an Aids conference on the government’s National Strategic Plan for Aids and Sexually Transmitted Infections 2007-2011 in Johannesburg on Wednesday.
The national strategic plan to combat Aids to 2011 met with business, government and civil society approval in Johannesburg on Wednesday. ”I regard [it] as a major landmark in our efforts as the people of South Africa to respond to HIV and Aids,” acting Health Minister Jeff Radebe told a conference on the presentation of the plan.
South Africa’s national women’s soccer team have objected to Equatorial Guinea ”bending it like Beckham” by allegedly fielding two male players against them. Banyana Banyana team manager Fran Hilton-Smith said on Tuesday a complaint had been laid with the Confederation of African Football.
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/ 20 February 2007
More than 297Â 000 people will benefit from housing projects in Gauteng in the next financial year, provincial minister of housing Nomvula Mokonyane said on Tuesday. The 58Â 552 houses to be built will include give-away, financed and rental houses, Mokonyane said in elaborating on Premier Mbhazima Shilowa’s state of the province address.
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/ 25 January 2007
Brett Kebble murder accused Glenn Agliotti had his case postponed to June 20 in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Thursday. Scorpions prosecutor Gerrie Nel told the court: ”It’s a fairly lengthy postponement date but the state is involved in extradition proceedings to ensure other accused appear in this matter.”
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/ 9 November 2006
Artists and other creative workers could soon enjoy the benefits of a social-security scheme, the Creative Workers’ Union of South Africa (CWUSA) said on Thursday. It is hoped that the scheme will be launched in September next year, the CWUSA’s general secretary, Oupa Lebogo, told reporters in Johannesburg.