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/ 17 September 2009
The Delta Environmental Centre is empowering children to become more green.
School holidays bring a surge in fatal circumcisions at unlicensed Eastern Cape initiation schools.
Many politicians do not make use of our public healthcare system — clearly a vote of no confidence.
By midday on Thursday DA leader Helen Zille was happy that her party was on track to make their target of receiving 15% of the national vote.
Government is are now threatening my livelihood with the introduction of this new transport system.
And on the 19th day, they celebrated. Nosimilo Ndlovu offers up a crash course in one of the world’s fastest-growing religions.
The 2009-10 budget for ARV provision will fall short by R1-billion if the numbers of infected people continue to grow.
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/ 13 February 2009
Nosimilo Ndlovu interviewed Michel Sidibé, the new executive director of UNAIDS, the coordinating body of the United National in the global fight against HIV and AIDS.
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/ 12 February 2009
Policy intervention supported in the national budget will focus both on health and on more aggressively combating the causes of ill health.
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/ 6 February 2009
Kgosi Letlape, the first black ophthalmologist in South Africa and former president of the World Medical Association, had led Sama since 2001.
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/ 21 January 2009
The CCMA has seen a dramatic increase in the number of referrals since September and this could be a result of the "downturn" in the economy.
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/ 24 November 2008
Ten months after the shooting rampage, emotions are still raw in Skierlik.
Accounting and professional service firms are the largest recruiters, but still struggle to fill vacancies, writes Cathy Sims.
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/ 23 September 2008
Thousands of babies die each year from correctable cardiac defects, writes Nosimilo Ndlovu.
Restrictions prohibiting HIV-positive people from obtaining visas or permits to travel or work abroad adds to the global stigma around HIV.
Nosimilo Ndlovu and Vicky Hill report on a UN study on human rights
Whistles, clapping, stamping, the Nasrec Expo Centre vibrates with the sounds of young voices, singing songs vowing to "fight and kill for Zuma".
When Mike and Claire Carr’s youngest children were born, they became painfully aware of the growing number of missing children in South Africa.
The Gauteng Conservancy Association’s community-based approach has spread into nearly 30 conservancies in the province.
"Our school was in a bad condition before, with pipes leaking, toilets dirty and in a poor condition."
It is lunchtime and two police officers from the Alexandra station have arrived to collect 50 loaves of bread and four enormous plastic tubs filled with fresh stew for the refugees who have sought sanctuary at the police station from the violence.The officers pack the lunch into the back of a police van and drive off.
In a practice that recalls the humiliating "tests" used by apartheid officials to classify coloureds as white or black, reports came in that South African mobs were using similar techniques to identify foreigners. A language test is first, where one is asked to label certain body parts in isiZulu. Certain words in the Zulu language are no longer used on a daily basis.
It’s just another sunny afternoon in Alex, and foreigners are taking the opportunity to salvage what is left of their possessions. When the sun goes down, they’ll need to be back in their tents behind the palisade fence of the parking lot of the Alexandra police station, which has been turned into a tent city.
Many say Alex is the last place they expected this kind of violence to erupt. It is known as multi-cultural and multi-national, a melting pot where South Africans and foreigners from different race and ethnic groups have lived together for years. One life-long resident, 25-year-old Thandi Madlala, says she has always had Mozambican neighbours, "and it’s never been an issue".
Economists say it is only a matter of time before the rising price of oil puts pressure on the petrol price, causing it to rise yet again. Econometrix’s senior economist, Tony Twine, says that it is too late for the oil price to affect the current petrol price, but that it would certainly take the petrol price up in May by another 25c.
PRETTY SALMA by Nikki Daly
International No Diet Day – yes there is such a day – is observed on May 6 every year.
Cervical cancer still kills thousands of women in South Africa, mostly poor women in their 40s and 50s, many of whom are the breadwinners in their families. Last week pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp & Dohme launched a cervical cancer vaccine, known as the quadrivalent human papillomavirus recombinant vaccine.
For thousands of patients quarantined for up to a year with multidrug-resistant or extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, the Easter holiday period only reinforces their loneliness. Last December, patients in Gauteng and the Eastern Cape broke out of TB hospitals to be with their families during the festive season.
Schools can add to their income by recycling waste materials that would otherwise be discarded.
Amathonzi Abanzi by NM Ndlovu
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/ 20 February 2008
Small deeds, despite the sceptics, can make a difference. In Soweto, a community clean-up campaign is helping to restore wetlands that have suffered from decades of pollution. Members of organisations such as the Mayibuye Wetlands Programme are spending hours cleaning up the Klip River, which has been described as one of the most polluted rivers in Gauteng.