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Fifty schools in Gauteng have become the latest recipients of Information Communication and Technology (ICT) equipment that will ensure effective teaching and learning in the province.

Award-winning female farmer Matshidiso Mooketsi says women should not fear the challenges and hard work that come with running a farm.

Mooketsi is in charge of the 1 855 hectare Driehoek Farm, which is 80km south-west of Vryburg in North West. Mooketsi and her husband signed a 30-year lease agreement with the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR) to use the farm under the department’s recapitalisation programme.

About 400 households in Mantusini, near Port St Johns, will benefit from a state-of-the-art dairy parlour. The parlour was handed over by Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti.

This forms part of the department’s One Household-One Hectare programme, through which households are allocated a one hectare portion of land to produce crops.

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.

Over ten boreholes were handed over to the Alfred Nzo District Municipality by the Minister for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA), Des van Rooyen and the Eastern Cape CoGTA MEC in the Honorable Fikile Xasa.

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.

Residents of Combiza Extension 35 in Etwatwa, Ekurhuleni, are now proud homeowners of decent houses.

The KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Department of Education recently handed over the newly-built Langa High School. Situated in Belgrade, Pongola it is worth R34 million. This forms part of the department’s drive to develop education infrastructure in the province.

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.