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Language For Life is an OBE language learning programme on HIV/Aids for learners in the intermediate phase. The set comprises a Teacher’s Guide, Learner’s Book and a Reader. It aims to generate HIV/Aids awareness in the classroom through an activities-based approach. It looks to develop the skills of reading, comprehension, writing, speaking, listening and thinking […]

Traditionally, parents have considered plumpness in children to be a sign of health and happiness — but there is growing concern among health professionals about obesity and unhealthy eating habits among children. Schools are plugging into a Heart Foundation programme that aims to combat playground puppy fat.

Five years ago the future looked bleak for pupils at Cangci Comprehensive Technical High School in the remote village of AmaMpisi on the hilltops of the Eastern Cape. However, in 1999 things changed when village chief Daliwonga Mlindazwe met Nelson Mandela. He told Mandela about his dream to build a technical school for the children, so the two men put their heads together.

There are 25 sector education and training authorities (Seta) in South Africa and each is classified according to economic sectors. The functions and responsibilities of Setas are set out in Chapter 3, Section 10 of the Skills Development Act, 1998. Also, find your complete directory of contacts here.

The Services sector education and training authority (Seta) has disbursed more than R180-million in grants to its members, according to its CEO, Ivor Blumenthal.
The Services Seta comprises 29 industries with 65 000 member companies and about two million employees. Many of these are in small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

Beyond the protracted anti-retroviral debate in South Africa is a worrying lack of attention to the "shelter and services needs" of families with members who are HIV-positive or living with Aids. Local government has been fingered as the villain for failing to deliver basic services — it must, argues a prominent scholar, get its act together.

Students at the beleaguered Technikon Witwatersrand believe they have been let down by their students’ representative council, which last week led protests that caused the institution to be shut down.
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