IFP: 19,000 HIV/AIDS WORKERS TRAINED FOR THE FRONTLINES Today the Children with HIV Association (CHIVA) celebrates ten years of mentoring and training healthcare workers to treat HIV/Aids in children and adolescents. This remarkable organisation has trained 19 000 healthcare workers since its founding by Dr…
IFP: TASK TEAM TO INVESTIGATE THE KILLING OF A YOUNG BOY IN PONGOLA MUST BE APPOINTED The IFP Leader in KwaZulu Natal Legislature, Mr Blessed Gwala called on the MEC for Community Safety, Willies Mchunu, to urgently appoint a task team to investigate the violent…
Cape Town – Telecommunications and Postal Services Minister Siyabonga Cwele says he plans to meet with the main players in the telecommunications sector to persuade them to reduce the cost to communicate. Speaking to journalists in Parliament, on Wednesday, after tabling the Budget Vote for…
Pretoria – South Africa has expressed its concern, over the escalation of violence between Israel and Palestine territories, to Israeli Ambassador Arthur Lenk. On Wednesday, Lenk was summoned to the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) for a meeting with Deputy Minister Nomaindia Mfeketo.…
Cape Town – Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant says her department will launch a major investigation into the modalities for the introduction of a national minimum wage in a bid to close pay inequalities. The Minister also said amendments to the Labour Relations Act would be…
Hong Kong - Eighteen of the 20 people, injured when a South African Airways (SAA) flight experienced severe turbulence, have been discharged from hospital. “SAA would like to advise that 18 of the 20 people injured whilst on board SA286 from Johannesburg to Hong Kong…
Cape Town – Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant has announced that she will meet with the National Union of Metalworkers SA (Numsa) and the metal and engineering industry in a bid to ensure the strike does not drag out for longer. The minister said she wanted…
Semi-final results of the Gauteng East KeyHealth Series being played in Benoni, Gauteng. Singles Semi-finals Men Boys 12 4-Codie van Schalkwyk (Nam) bt Christopher Fok (Mus) 6-4 6-1 3-Andreas Scott (GC) bt 6-Dylan Salton (GE) 6-1 6-2 Boys 14 1-Christiaan Worst (GN) bt 8-William Wilson…
Dit bly ‘n kwaal van die ANC en die regering van Suid-Afrika om apartheid die skuld te gee vir alles wat in die land verkeerd gaan en om in ontkenning te leef oor probleme wat daar wel is, sê dr. Pieter Groenewald, die VF Plus…
Parool-aansoeke, soos dié van Eugene de Kock, moet op meriete behandel word en moet nie politieke besluite wees nie, sê dr. Pieter Groenewald, die VF Plus se hoofwoordvoerder oor Korrektiewe Dienste. Dr. Groenewald sê ‘n man soos De Kock, wat duidelik ‘n politieke gevangene is,…