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Encouraging Youth Owned Small Business Development for Job Creation and Economic Growth

Brand South Africa, through its long standing partnership with Grow Supplier ZA™ collaborated with the Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA), Rand Water Foundation and...

Tsima uses video to help fight Aids

Tsima thumbSonke Gender Justice is running a community mobilisation intervention and research trial in Mpumalanga that uses short video stories to mobilise people to stop the spread of HIV and Aids.

End of year statement by President Jacob Zuma

Read South African President Jacob Zuma’s statement to mark the end of 2014.

Despite challenges Bhubezi changes lives

bhubezi---thumbPeople needing health care in Bushbuckridge have been able to turn to Bhubezi Healthcare Centre. The public-private partnership has treated 220 000 patients since its door opened in 2007.

Public viewing areas for President-elect Jacob Zuma’s inauguration

THE inauguration of South Africa's President-elect, Jacob Zuma, will take place at the Nelson Mandela Amphitheatre at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. Public viewing...

Elections 2014: A guide to all registered parties

On 7 May 2014 South Africans will vote in the country's fifth national democratic elections, 20 years after the end of apartheid in 1994. We bring you a brief guide to the 152 parties voters can choose from – the established, the newcomers, and the outliers.

Political parties pledge tolerance ahead of elections

Political parties registered to contest South Africa's 7 May general election on Wednesday signed the Independent Electoral Commission's code of conduct, committing themselves to refrain from any acts of violence, incitement or intimidation in the lead-up to the polls.

Public Works gives disabled people hope

The South African Active Disabled People's Association in Thulamahashe near Bushbuckridge, a project under the government's Expanded Public Works Programme, has created over 500 jobs for disabled people in Mpumalanga province.

Sangomas join the rhino force

In 2011, two species of rhino were driven virtually to extinction - fortunately a remnant of one still survives in a game park, but the fight to save the animal goes on. Now South Africa's sangomas, or traditional healers, have joined the fray.
SANParks ups their game for rhinos

Health Dept ropes in graduate interns

South Africa's Health Department is on a mission to improve the country's healthcare system and to get a clean audit this financial year, and has enlisted the help of 400 graduate interns to help it achieve this.