The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture has begun its inaugural #ForTheRecord information sessions to keep the public informed about its economic recovery and reconstruction efforts for the creative sector.
The initiative comes after the department was repeatedly accused of being unresponsiveness and uncaring towards the creative sector.
Sport, Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa says these sessions will be held regularly.
Lwazi Msipha, has turned his love for cartoons into a full-time career. He has created, written and animated a new show called My Cartoon Friend. The show is being aired on American cable television channel Cartoon Network.
The 13-episode production is about the friendship between a 2D version of Msipha and Themba, a cartoon character. The two co-existing in the same world learning to live with each other as their friends.
Fashion designer Lindo Mavuso (23) was convicted of murder and spent four years in jail before he turned 18.
Mavuso was arrested for the mob justice murder of a man who stole property from him, that he had stolen from someone else.
Lehlohonolo Sekgobela’s (30) journey, from drug addict to anti-drug activist, is one of hope and inspiration.
Sekgobela, originally from Parktown in Johannesburg, carries an empty box of matches everywhere to remind him not to go back to using drugs.
‘’Delivering just and democratic boundaries’’
Established in 1999, The Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB), an independent authority has continued to deliver its mandate without fear, favour or prejudice.
The MDB’s mandate is derived from the Municipal Demarcation Act (Act No.
27 of 1998) and Municipal Structures Act (Act No. 117 of 1998).
The MDB is mandated to:
Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, is the name given to a group of conditions where memory, thinking, behaviour and emotion are affected in the brain.
Many South Africans are affected by this condition, but little is known about this type of mental illness.
Ntokozo Ngcobo, a psychiatrist at King Dinuzulu Hospital in Durban, says dementia often affects the elderly. She says that those who suffer from this illness often experience memory loss.
The first beneficiaries of the Siyanqoba Integrated Residential Development Programme recieve their new homes.
Gogo Martha Matjomane (70) of Siyangoba in eMalahleni is a the first-time homeowner, thanks to the Mpumalanga Provincial Government.
Matjomane is a widow, who has lived in a shack, with her four children, for 26 years.
“Rainwater leaked inside and my children and I were always stressed. Winter was unbearable in the shack,” she says.
Thirty-three informal traders, who previously operated under make-shift stalls at the Ezimbuzini Precinct in Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal, now have a new and improved trading facility.
eThekwini Municipality has constructed an automotive hub and informal trading stalls, at the cost of R22 million. The development is the first of its kind in the country to house and formalise the informal trading sector.
The project forms part of the municipality’s efforts to accelerate the township economy.
Residents of Umjindini township in Barberton, Mpumalanga, no longer have to travel long distances for primary healthcare services thanks to a new state-of-the-art clinic that opened to the community recently.
The new Cathyville clinic, built by Barberton Mines, at a cost of R15.4 million, was officially handed over to the community by the Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Gwede Mantashe, and Mpumalanga Premier Refilwe Mtsheni-Tsipane.
The National Development Agency (NDA) and Mfesane, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has donated 10 mobile beauty salons to the Saldanha Bay and Bergriver local municipalities in the Western Cape.
A beneficiary of the programme and the owner of Mama’s Beauty Bar, Ilse Masdoorp (26), says the mobile salon helps her feed her two children and support her husband, who was previously the breadwinner of the family.