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Thulile Cecilia Mbatha never wants to miss a day’s work. In the event that she does, her regular passengers cannot wait for her to return so they can tell her how much they love and missed her.

This passionate Metrobus driver has a special relationship with her army of passengers – learners attending school in various parts of Johannesburg. So when her alarm goes off at 3.30am every weekday, she prays there are no health issues that might prevent her from doing what she loves most – driving a bus.

The KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Department of Health has spent R25 million refurbishing the Usuthu Clinic to bring health services closer to the community of KwaNongoma in the north of the province.

Masixole Pati is one of the 1 000 young people who have just graduated as professional nurses from Lilitha College of Nursing in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape.

Social development

Social development

The Department of Social Development wants to do more to promote Early Childhood Development Centres (ECD).

“Our research indicates that ECDs are important because the first years of the cognitive thinking of a child are being taken care of at that level.”

Social development

This year the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) is celebrating 10 years of service.

Acting Director-General and CEO designate of Sassa Thokozani Magwaza said that as part of the celebrations the organisation will reflect on its failures and successes.

One such success is that 17 million people are receiving social grants. 

Sport, arts and culture

South Africa’s golden girl Caster Semenya has done it again. Fresh from winning the gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics, she recently won the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) 2016 Diamond League Race, held in Monaco.

Sport, arts and culture

South Africans converged in their numbers at OR Tambo International Airport to welcome home the athletes who participated in the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio, Brazil.

Dr Siyabonga Cyprian Cwele is the Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services, a position he has held since May 2014.

About the Minister

Prior to his current position, he served as Minister of State Security from 11 May 2009 to 25 May 2014, and Minister of Intelligence from 25 September 2008 to 10 May 2009.

International relations

President Jacob Zuma says more emphasis has to be placed on innovation, fair trade and investment as the fundamentals of sustainable and inclusive growth.