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During the Rhino Summit held in Pretoria in early October, Environmental Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica reiterated her department’s commitment to bringing poachers to book. Read her keynote speech.
• Wildlife poachers to be taken down

With the lack of modernised laboratories being identified as the weakest link in providing quality HIV/Aids health care to people in Tanzania, the Abbott Fund have pledged more than US$10-million towards to upgrading laboratories across the country.

A Movement for Good, which aims at inspiring every person to act and become involved in creating the South Africa that we all want to live in, was launched today at The Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg. Spokesperson, Bryan Habana explains that “the Movement for Good starts with you. We all, in our individual capacities, can make a difference”.

“Noka e tlatswa ke dinokana – A river swells from little streams,” says Dali Mpofu, CEO of the SABC, “Each person has got the capacity to change not only their community or even their family, but society as a whole, so that the whole of South Africa can benefit from our own individual actions.”

A Movement for Good, which aims at inspiring every person to act and become involved in creating the South Africa that we all want to live in, was launched today at The Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg. Spokesperson, Bryan Habana explains that “the Movement for Good starts with you. We all, in our individual capacities, can make a difference”.

“Noka e tlatswa ke dinokana – A river swells from little streams,” says Dali Mpofu, CEO of the SABC, “Each person has got the capacity to change not only their community or even their family, but society as a whole, so that the whole of South Africa can benefit from our own individual actions.”

Aids activist Zinhle Thabethe is the first South African to be internationally recognised as a trailblazer in her field by the National Geographic Emerging Explorers programme.

James Kamte made history at the Gary Player Country Club at Sun City on Sunday, becoming the first black golfer to win an event on the Summer Swing of the Sunshine Tour by taking victory in the R1.8-million Dimension Data Pro-Am.

South Africa has become the fifth country in the world, and the first in Africa, to allow legal marriages between same-sex couples, after a historic vote in Parliament, followed by the signature of the acting President, passed the Civil Union Bill into law.

Writer JM Coetzee won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2003, becoming the second South African to scoop literature's most prestigious prize. The Swedish Academy, announcing their decision, noted the "capacity for empathy that has enabled Coetzee time and again to creep beneath the skin of the alien and the abhorrent".