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After a convincing win over Sri Lanka the Momentum Proteas have qualified for the 2017 ICC Women’s World Cup to be held in the United Kingdom in June and July this year.

South Africa and Angola have committed to strengthen cooperation in the areas of mining and upstream petroleum, says Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane.

The commitment was made during a meeting with Minister Zwane and his Angolan counterpart, Minister of Geology and Mining, Francisco Queiroz, on the side-lines of the Investing in African Mining Indaba recently. 

The Working on Fire’s pilot training initiative was launched in 2015. The training draws firefighters from the Working on Fire programme who have matric certificates and have passed English, Mathematics and Physical Science and have a passion for aviation.

When the initiative started it had an intake of two firefighters who went to the Kishugu Aviation Training Organisation in Nelspruit.

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.