Six people are being trained to care for beehives that were discovered at Moja Gabedi, a UP community engagement project which was an unofficial rubbish dump for about 100 years.
Moja Gabedi was an unsightly, empty lot in Festival Street, not far from the university’s Hatfield Campus.
Many frontline workers who aid GBV survivors do not understand South African Sign Language (SASL) – the language used by the deaf community.
To address this challenge, the NEEMA Foundation for the Deaf is working with the National Development Agency (NDA).
Foundation Chairperson Cebisile Ndebele says in many cases, members of the deaf community are not adequately assisted at police stations.
Carrol Sello, a social worker at the Gauteng Department of Social Development, says there are various types of elder abuse.
Nosihle Dlamini and Phumelele Khumalo, the founders of Get2Natural, created their own hair treatment product after trying many that didn’t work for them.
South Africa has many heroes and heroines that have gone above and beyond the call of duty during the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic. One of these inspirational people, who is admired by many, is Tygerberg Hospital’s enrolled nurse Monica Adams (60).
“False stories are being spread on WhatsApp groups, on social media and by word of mouth about the COVID-19 vaccine, claiming that the vaccine is not safe, that it can make you sick or that it doesn’t work,” he noted.
The President called on South Africans to think about the consequences of spreading false information.
Trafficking in persons is a serious crime and a grave violation of human rights. It exploits women, children and men for various reasons, including forced labour and sex.
According to the United Nations’ (UN) Office on Drugs and Crime, almost every country in the world is affected by trafficking, with thousands of people falling victim to it every year.