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Gender-Based Violence

In a remote part of the Eastern Cape, rape victims find a warm, sympathetic place where professionals are trained to support and care for them.

Pupils from schools across the country will now get the chance to step into the shoes of the South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC).

The pupils participated in the MPC Challenge, which is a school project being run by the Reserve Bank in Gauteng, Limpopo, Free State, Mpumalanga, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape and the North West.

It offers the opportunity for Grade 12 economics learners and their teachers to become “members” of the MPC for a few weeks. SARB runs the competition in partnership with the Department of Basic Education.

Learners at Katlehong Engineering School of Specialisation in Ekurhuleni are being afforded an opportunity to acquire knowledge that will allow them to create jobs for themselves after completing Grade 12.

This is according to Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi who recently unveiled the school, which will focus on transport, manufacturing and logistics.

Addressing learners, MEC Lesufi said the learners will be prepared for a life of entrepreneurship.

Women who drink alcohol while pregnant put their babies at serious risk of permanent birth defects.

Drinking alcohol when pregnant carries a significant risk to the unborn baby because alcohol easily crosses the placental barrier, thus passing from mother to child.

Women who are pregnant,  attempting to fall pregnant or who are breastfeeding should refrain from drinking. When it comes to pregnancy, there is no safe time to drink and there is no safe alcohol.

Herbs have been used to heal since ancient times and a KwaZulu-Natal woman is determined to help her patients restore their health naturally.

Nokuthula Mahaye (53) owns a health and wellness company called Truhealth, which provides various types of therapy and sells detoxing products made from natural herbs.

Mahaye started her company in the late 1990s in her backyard in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, selling herbal products to locals, before formally registering her business in 2010.

South Africa has conveyed its condolences to the people of Zimbabwe following the passing of its founding President Robert Gabriel Mugabe.

“President Cyril Ramaphosa has, on behalf of the government and people of South Africa, expressed his sincere condolences to the people and government of the Republic of Zimbabwe following the passing of founding President Robert Gabriel Mugabe,” the   Presidency said in a statement.

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The demand by South Africans for end to Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) is one that requires a well-coordinated, united and national response that will not only stop abusers in their tracks but will prevent the very occurrence of these horrific and unjustifiable crimes.

Basic Education Deputy Minister Regina Mhaule has called on the private sector to collaborate with government in a bid to cast its net wider and feed more children.

The Minister made these remarks at the launch of the Department of Basic Education’s (DBE) National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) at Winnie Mandela Primary School in Tembisa, Ekurhuleni, recently.

Promising entrepreneurs are being given a leg up by government so that they can reach their full potential and contribute to the economy.

A rural Eastern Cape business is growing, thanks to support from the Department of Small Business Development (DSBD).