An agricultural project, run by a group of people living with hearing impairment, is creating jobs for the deaf community in Rand West City Local Municipality.
The Voice Out Deaf Cooperative is one of the five cooperatives found in the Rand West Agri-park, which is one of the agri-parks that have been in full operation for more than two years.
The Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) has invested R28 million into revitalising the Ga-Rankuwa Industrial Park, which is set to attract new investors and create jobs for local residents.
Netball is underdeveloped in schools around South Africa, and this landmark event is expected to empower girls to get into the sport.
The programme has seen marked improvements in participating rural schools. Gabisile Gasa, who teaches English and Life Orientation at Umthawelanga Senior Secondary School in the rural town of Maclear in the Eastern Cape, said her pupils have started using a previously abandoned library.
A need to help the poor led to the opening of the first oncology ward in Mthatha, Eastern Cape.
She was recently appointed as the CEO of the Finance and Accounting Services Sector Education and Training Authority (Fasset), which is one of the 21 SETAs that were established in terms of the Skills Development Act to cover all sectors in South Africa, including government.
Fasset is mainly responsible for skills development in the finance and accountancy services sector.
Residents of Hammanskraal in the north of Pretoria say the new state-of-the-art clinic that recently opened in their community will help to address their health challenges.
Kekana Gardens Clinic was officially opened by Gauteng Premier David Makhura.
The state-of-the-art health facility cost the provincial government about R7.2 million to build and its construction took just over two years.