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Minister of Social Development Lindiwe Zulu says every South African has a role to play in creating awareness about the dangers of alcohol and substance abuse. 

Minister Zulu recently outlined government's National Drug Master Plan (NDMP) 2019 – 2024. 

Blood stocks in South Africa, used for life-saving hospital procedures, remain very low. You should know that donating blood is safe, even during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, and that your donation can help to save lives.

The South African National Blood Service (SANBS) is appealing to South Africans to donate blood during this time, as the organisation is struggling to meet its collection goals. 

A field quarantine hospital in Port Elizabeth helped a woman diagnosed with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) recover speedily. 

Any early childhood development facility that intends to reopen when the green light is given, needs to complete a reopening self-assessment form. 

Although an official date for the reopening of early childhood development (ECD) centres is yet to be announced, the Department of Social Development (DSD) has outlined reopening guidelines. 

If you’re looking for an easy, educational way to keep your children entertained, then legendary South African storyteller Gcina Mhlophe is here to help you.

A female cricket coach is using the sport as a catalyst for change in her Western Cape community.

Babalwa Zothe (26) is spreading her passion for cricket to young girls in Khayelitsha outside Cape Town.

The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) says it has been working on innovations to improve the payment of students’ allowances to remove all third parties from the payment chain.

For the 2021 academic year, NSFAS will pay allowances directly into the bank accounts of all students.

Ten Yes4Youth participants have become WiFi Entrepreneurs who will be better prepared for the digital future, thanks to their involvement with non-profit organisation Project Isizwe. 

Yes4Youth is a national government initiative that places unemployed young people in companies for a 12-month paid internship. 

The number of deaths from coronavirus recently passed the 2000 mark. Among those who have lost their lives are healthcare workers, consummate professionals who cared for the ill, and were a support and comfort to those in hospital isolated from their families.

That the men and women carrying out this most noble and sacred of duties are themselves falling ill and dying is a devastating blow.