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/ 19 December 2007
South Africa, faced with one of the most severe HIV/Aids epidemics in the world, grapples daily with the challenges around education, prevention and management of the pandemic. A UNAids report estimates that in 2005 1,2-million South African children were left orphaned by HIV/Aids, double the number in 2003.
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/ 19 December 2007
When the annual Vuka! Awards proudly celebrate a decade in existence next year they will be getting a new look. At this year’s Vuka! prize ceremony MultiChoice chief executive Nolo Letele announced that from 2008 the initiative will be hosted by M-Net. “We truly believe M-Net, our sister company and one of MultiChoice’s channel providers, will provide valuable insight and expertise and take the Vuka! Awards to the next level,” said Letele.
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/ 19 December 2007
The Vuna Awards, which took place this week, provide an incentive for municipalities, rewarding those that give their communities excellent services and governance. In keeping with its name (Vuna means “harvest together” in the Nguni family of languages), “the awards seek to encourage service excellence and to celebrate municipalities, which are sowing the seeds of genuine development."
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/ 19 December 2007
Sedibeng, the district municipality comprising the municipalities of Midvaal, Lesedi and Emfuleni, is a district with a long-term plan that shows it is far from being reticent. The area is one of the poorest in southern Gauteng. Historically, the it was predominantly white and middle class.
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/ 19 December 2007
Skills shortages, touted as the critical issue hampering the effectiveness of government, are nowhere more obvious than at local government level, role players in the sector told the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>. Although local government has upped its game in the past few years and significant gains have been made by municipalities local government is still not operating at the expected level.
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/ 19 December 2007
The metropolitan council of Tshwane, despite the ongoing debate around the use of the name, is meeting its challenges head-on and seems certain to meet its goals, according to the city’s executive management. Executive mayor Dr Gwen Ramokgopa heads the 152-member council, which is led by an ANC majority.
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/ 19 December 2007
The Swartland, made famous throughout the country by WeetBix’s old advertising campaign, is characterised by undulating fields of wheat planted and harvested in orderly rows and a few industrious rural towns cleansed by the wind and the sun shining from a clear blue sky.
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/ 19 December 2007
As the DA-led coalition moves towards March 2008 and the end of its second year of governing Cape Town, it continues to fight attempts to usurp the alliance in a turbulent political atmosphere that often overshadows the pressing delivery needs of the city. Since taking power from the ANC after last year’s local government elections, the coalition government has fought off numerous attempts by the ANC to unseat it.
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/ 19 December 2007
Corruption in local government, poor levels of service delivery and declining standards of working conditions for its members are the main concerns of the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu), traditionally a powerhouse in municipalities around South Africa.
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/ 18 December 2007
Pity the president of the ANC Women’s League … for the sister truly reigns in troubled times. As if presiding over a government department crippled by scandal, ineptitude and general chaos wasn’t trying enough, along comes the added humiliation of being stabbed in the back by one’s own, writes Khadija Bradlow.