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Digital evolution benefits Johannesburg

The City of Johannesburg and Microsoft South Africa have joined forces to provide one million disadvantaged residents with free digital skills and literacy training over a period of five-years.

The city’s Mayor Parks Tau announced this in Johannesburg recently. Registration for the programme started early in August and teaching is expected to begin in September.

He said 800 000 of the one million to benefit from the programme will be youths between the ages of 18 and 34. The rest will be those above the age of 35 who still need to access the job market at entry level.

Houses for the people of Thoyane

Previously disadvantaged households from Vulamehlo Local Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal now live in decent housing, thanks to the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Department of Human Settlements.

The R161 million housing project for the people of Thoyane was handed over by MEC for Human Settlements and Public Works Ravigasen Pillay recently. The 1 500 houses form part of government’s Comprehensive Rural Development Programme that aims to tackle under development, food security, unemployment, poverty and other social ills which have become synonymous with rural areas.

Mpumalanga gets new boarding school

Over 900 learners from six farm schools in Mpumalanga are now being schooled in a state-of-the-art boarding school. The Steve Tshwete Boarding School situated in Somaphepha village has an administration block, 28 classrooms, a computer centre, laboratory, kitchen, dining and multi-purpose hall, dormitories for boys and girls, multi-purpose sport grounds, netball courts and soccer field, among other things.
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