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As the world evolves into a digital era, learners with special needs should not be left behind when their peers experience new technology as part of learning in schools.

This is why the Department of Social Development and the MTN SA Foundation donated computers that have special software to the Efata School for the Blind and Deaf in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape.

Efata has 411 learners; 124 are blind and 287 are deaf.

Government calls on South Africans to report all fraudulent and corrupt activities.

Patrick Masoka has been sentenced for 10 years imprisonment for stealing a farm and livestock belonging to the Shabalala clan in Ladysmith KwaZulu-Natal.

His sentence was recently handed down by the Pietermaritzburg Regional Court.

GO GEORGE  makes affordable and reliable public transport a reality for residents of George in the Western Cape.

Children residing within the George municipality in the Western Cape are catching on to the benefits of public transport through educational, fun games that have been distributed in schools around the area.

People who are hearing impaired will no longer feel like foreigners in their own city, thanks to a drive to teach sign language.

"South Africa belongs to all who live in it.” without this declaration our Constitution would be a hollow statement if the majority of South Africans did not have access to the land of which we were robbed and from which we were alienated during centuries of colonialism and decades of apartheid.

There is currently a lot of discussion and debate – but also disinformation and fear mongering around South Africa’s land reform and redistribution process.

South African schools will be able to choose Kiswahili as an optional second additional language 2020.

This was one of a number of announcements recently made by Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga.

When *Tshepo Mofokeng was 10 years old, he witnessed the rape of his 17-year-old sister.

While the armed attacker told the little boy to lie down and not watch, he can still hear his sister’s screams.

After the attack, the man ordered the siblings to run and not look back. As they painfully made their way home, his sister made him promise not to tell a soul of the rape. Mofokeng kept his word but the secret made him very bitter.

A rare condition related to hair loss has led a Durban woman to advocacy.

Sizakele Mdluli-Chaplin has a dream of living in a world where beauty is not defined by long hair, a slim body and straight white teeth.

She was diagnosed with alopecia, which is a condition that causes the immune system to attack hair follicles throughout the body and leads loss from the scalp, underarms, eyebrows, eyelashes and the pubic area.

Land expropriation questions answered

South Africans have many questions around land reform following the National Assembly’s adoption of a motion to amend the country’s Constitution to allow for the expropriation of land without compensation. Vuk’uzenele spoke to government to get these questions answered for our readers.

Why is land reform needed?

A model that ensures members work hard if they expect to share in the profits and a reliable supply of crops are the secret to the success of co-operatives.

When 33 farming co-operatives work together, an abundance of crops is produced and a happy market that knows that it can access a steady supply of fresh produce is the result.