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For the first time, South African citizens can be treated for blood-related diseases at a public health facility.

The recently opened Zakithi Nkosi Clinical Haematology Centre of Excellence specialises in treating aplastic anaemia, cancers of the lymph nodes, benign diseases of the blood and bone cancers like leukemia.

The Department of Higher Education and Training has appointed a Ministerial Task Team to advise on matters relating to sexual harassment and gender-based violence (GBV) in public universities in South Africa.

This follows an open letter written by a group of academics to the Minister in March 2019 highlighting issues of Gender – Based Violence (GBV), including sexual harassment.

One by one, the country’s newly appointed 28 ministers and 34 deputy ministers vowed to respectfully serve the country as the sixth administration was sworn into office.

The incoming ministers and deputy ministers are part of a new Cabinet that for the first time features a 50/50 gender representation and many more youthful faces. 

The reconfigured government departments are expected to help achieve the desires of South Africans.

The new Ministers and Deputy Ministers were sworn in by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng.

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Farmers can reap great rewards with the Ilima/Letsema and the Comprehensive Agricultural Support Programme (CASP).

The two programmes, run through the provincial agriculture and rural development departments,s offer small scale farmers support so they can improve their farming projects, livestock and plant farming production support.

A crop farmer is taking advantage of government’s agricultural programmes to do his bit for food security and empower himself and his community.

The child of farm workers, Gil Wilson (35) has gone on to become a maize farmer with workers of his own.

A tertiary hospital in Klerksdorp has expanded its complement of specialist clinicians by 13, which means state patients can look forward to a better level of healthcare.

In some way or the other we are all foodies at heart and it shows when we whip up our favourite midweek dishes. There’s nothing better than seeing our loved ones sitting around the table digging into the hearty meal you have prepared. Here is a delicious dish that  your family is sure to enjoy.

Meatballs and spaghetti

Ingredients:

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Oscar Buthulezi (28) has danced his way to choreographing award-winning international performances on stages around the world.

Raised by a single taxi driver father in Vosloorus in Gauteng, Buthelezi says among his community dance was not viewed as a proper career choice for young boys.