South Africa: Presidential Youth Working Group to be Set Up
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As the country prepares to celebrate Youth Day this Sunday, the Deputy Minister in the Presidency Oped Bapela announced that The Presidency is busy setting up a presidential youth working group to allow President Jacob Zuma to interact more with youth development stakeholders.
Speaking on Wednesday during The Presidency’s Budget Vote, Bapela said once set up the working group would allow young people to provide strategic advice to the executive on how to implement youth development intervention ...
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South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal Winning War against HIV/Aids and TB
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KwaZulu-Natal has recorded a decline in HIV/Aids prevalence as a result of a collective effort by the KZN Provincial Government to deal head-on with the scourge.
“We have seen a reduction in HIV prevalence amongst pregnant women decrease from 39.5% in 2009 to 37.4% in 2011 (Ante-Natal Survey),” KZN MEC for Health Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo announced on Wednesday.
Alongside this, he said the government efforts in preventing mother to child transmission decreased from 19% in 2007 to 2.1% by July 2012 ...
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South Africa: Presidency to Take Hands-on Approach on Economy
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The Presidency would this year take a hands-on approach and work closely with social partners and departments to boost confidence in the economy, President Jacob Zuma told Parliament today.
Presenting the Budget Vote Speech of The Presidency, Zuma also announced that former president Nelson Mandela is making good progress, adding that the nation’s thoughts were with Madiba, who 49 years to the day was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Zuma stressed that in addressing the country’s labour issues ...
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South Africa: Polokwane to Create More Jobs for the Poor
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Limpopo's capital city is on a drive to create more jobs through the government's Expanded Public Works Programme in the 2013/2014 financial year.
Polokwane mayor Freddy Greaver announced that the council is doing their best to ensure that jobs are created in an effort to reduce unemployment.
“I will make sure that I create more job opportunities amongst my municipality to fight poverty as there are various development initiatives that will create jobs for locals,” Greaver said this week.
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Beneficiation can Promote Industrialisation and Jobs
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Beneficiation can promote industrialisation and boost job creation, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies says.
Beneficiation, he said, will ensure that more value was added to domestic mineral products before exporting them.
“What we need to address is how we can use the minerals of our country as a tool of development and the only way to achieve this is through beneficiation. Beneficiation will create more jobs and promote industrialisation," he said at a Sanlam function on Tuesday.
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South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal Tops Housing Delivery in SA
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The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Human Settlements and Public Works has delivered 25 940 housing units in the 2012-2013 financial year.
“We have spent our full budget and in the process delivered 25 940 housing units in the 2012-2013 financial year. In the 2013-2014 financial years our goal is to deliver 27,382 housing units,” said KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Human Settlements and Public Works Ravigasen Ranganathan Pillay.
Pillay said KwaZulu-Natal delivered the highest number of units in the country ...
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South Africa: Over 2000 000 Jobs Opportunities Created in KZN
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The Department of Public Works in 2011/2012 created 214 306 work opportunities, KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Human Settlements and Public Works, Ravigasen Ranganathan Pillay announced today.
Delivering the 2013-2014 Public Works Budget Speech before the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature in Pietermaritzburg, Pillay said 8 855 actual jobs and 2 753 full time equivalents (FTEs) were also created.
He said the total budget for 2013-2014 is R1 261 366 000.
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South Africa: Feature – Wonderland Day Care Centre Gets a Healthy Boost
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When the Wonderland Day Care Centre opened in 2000, the centre struggled to provide healthy food for the children it looked after, due to a lack of funding.
Now because of government’s intervention through funding, the centre, which now has 64 children between the ages 2 and 6, the children now eat healthy food which helps in their development.
“We didn’t give children food according to what was required…… with the money subsidised by government, we buy more food including vegetables and fruit ...
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