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South Africans should draw strength from their diversity and use Freedom Park as a place to build social cohesion and focus on an inclusive future.

This is the view of Freedom Park CEO Jane Mufamadi who spoke to Vuk’uzenzele about the importance of celebrating heritage.

In celebration of South Africa’s rich cultural diversity and its people, the country will mark Heritage Day on 24 September.

Heritage Day gives us an opportunity to learn about each other’s cultures and celebrate our differences.

Elderly people with mental disorders will now receive specialised care with the opening of the new Geriatric Psychiatry Care Unit situated at the Witrand Hospital in the North West.

The Limpopo Department of Education has spent over R73 million building state-of-the-art schools in Greater Tubatse in Sekhukhune.

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.