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The Working on Fire programme is an initiative of the Department of Environmental Affairs in changing lives, particularly in poor communities.

Chief Financial Officer

Ref No: NDOH 15/2017
Chief Directorate: Pharmaceutical Trade and Product Regulation. Directorate: South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA).

Assistant Director: Fleet Management Services 

Centre: Provincial Office: Western Cape
Reference number: HR4/4/10/112 
Commencing salary: R 311 784 per annum
Enquiries: Ms Z Maimane, Tel: 021 441 8125

Applications: Chief Director Provincial Operations, PO BOX 872, Cape Town, 8000
or hand deliver to 9 Long Street, Cape Town.
For Attention: Sub-directorate: Human Resources Management, East London

Assistant Director: COIDA 

In 1997 government developed LandCare in Africa to highlight the importance of land conservation. Much has been done since and in October 2016, the seventh Biennial LandCare Conference was held in Kimberley.

Deliberations focused on finding resolutions to pressing LandCare challenges. The conference was co-hosted by the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and the Northern Cape Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, under the theme ‘Making a LandCare difference towards achieving land degradation neutrality’.

In the 2016/2017 Financial year the Deputy Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services Professor Hlengiwe Mkhize, embarked on a nation-wide drive to connect schools, communities and government buildings throughout provinces.

This initiative was aimed at ensuring that the goal of empowering South Africans through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is attained. The main focus of the ICT empowerment initiative was mainly on youth, women and small businesses.

The North West Department of Health has partnered with the private sector to make medicine easily accessible to patients.

Patients on chronic medication in the North West can now collect their medication at any Medirite pharmacy, located inside Shoprite stores and Clicks pharmacies, across the province.

This has been made possible thanks to the Centralised Chronic Medication Dispensing and Distribution (CCMDD) model, piloted by the Department of Health in the North West. 

A young doctor  is rewriting history and healing people holistically in KwaZulu-Natal.

The youthful Dr Pretty Mkhize (33) has made history by becoming the first black, female, doctor to open a homeopathy practice in the KwaZulu-Natal.

Homeopathy is the practice of medicine that embraces an holistic, natural approach to treating the sick. The medicines used in homeopathy come from vegetable, mineral and animal sources.

Sector Education Training Authorities (SETAs) are set to play a big role in making opportunities available to post-school learners this year.

Learners who wish to study further now have a chance to do so.

The Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) is urging learners from the class of 2016 to take up opportunities provided to them to study at Technical and Vocational Education and Training TVET colleges as artisans.

According to the National Development Plan, the country  needs to produce at least 30 000 artisans a year to meet the economy’s demands.