“The sanitation crisis in Thembisa schools is not only creating a health crisis in the area, it is indicative of the lack of services to schools around the country. Instead of the learning environment being a safe place, children are now being exposed to major…
WHO welcomes the extensive Ebola support from the United States of America GENEVA: 16 September 2014 -- WHO welcomes the contribution from the Government of the United States of America to significantly build upon their previous Ebola response in West Africa. The new commitment provides…
Pretoria – The Presidency has confirmed that 67 South Africans have been killed and scores others injured after a building at the Synagogue Church of All Nations collapsed on Friday, 12 September, in Lagos, in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. President Jacob Zuma has expressed…
I had agreed to meet with representatives of SANTACO to address some key issues outlined in a memorandum that I had received following the meeting request. The meeting took place on Friday 12 August 2014. Yesterday morning, taxi drivers embarked on their own violent and…
Die VF Plus het vandag in die portefeuljekomitee van handel en nywerheid van die Verbruikerskommissie verneem dat daar sterk stappe geneem gaan word om die probleme in die vakansieklub-industrie op te los. Dit kom nadat die VF Plus verlede jaar klagtes by die komitee ingedien…
The IFP in KwaZulu-Natal calls on the MEC for Education, Peggy Nkonyeni, to conduct an urgent investigation into the claims that learners in Mnyakanya High School in Nkandla, next to President Zuma's home, were forced by the school principal and local Inkosi to pay goats…
Pretoria - Officials from the South African Mission in Lagos, in Nigeria, are still liaising with rescue workers and government authorities to establish whether any South African citizens are affected by the collapsed church building there. The popular Lagos-based Synagogue Church Guest House building at…
Johannesburg – South Africa will next month host the 35th Annual Crime Stoppers Conference which will see the global crime fighting community converge in Cape Town. Hosted in Africa for the first time, Crime Stoppers is an international body that is active in over 26…
The Inkatha Freedom Party in KwaZulu-Natal has publically denounced the installation of electronic bingo terminals (EBTs) at shopping malls in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. "We are of the view that this move will add to the number of social ills that already plague our communities…
GENEVA - WHO welcomes the commitment from the Government of the People's Republic of China to dispatch a mobile laboratory team to Sierra Leone to enhance the laboratory testing capacity for Ebola virus disease (EVD) in the country. The contribution comes in response to WHO's…