Publisher

Applications: The Director General, Department of Social Development, Private Bag X901, Pretoria, 0001, Physical Address: HSRC Building, 134 Pretorius Street

Enquiries: Adv A Brink Tel: (012) 741-6846

Closing Date: 12 February 2016

The lives of more than 50 young people from the rural areas of Pongolo and Nongoma in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) will change for the better after they received training from the Siyazenzela Youth Development Programme.

If you’ve got a passion for making steel products or have an interest in learning more about fabrication of stainless steel, the Mpumalanga Stainless Steel Initiative (MSI) is the right place for you.

A young KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) doctor has made history. Dr Sithembile Ngidi (31), the daughter of a nurse and a farmer from Gamalakhe in Port Shepstone, made the province proud when she graduated from the Colleges of Medicine South Africa as the province’s first-ever black female oncologist. 

Government is close to implementing the National Health Insurance (NHI), which will ensure that South Africans live long and healthy lives.

A way of making sure that loved ones are taken care of when death strikes is drawing up a will.

A will, also known as a testament, is a document in which a person sets out what must happen to their estate when they die. 

You can nominate a person or persons, known as executors, who should administer your estate on your death.

It’s all systems go for the 2016 Local Government Elections. This is according to the Independent Electoral Commission’s (IEC) Chief Electoral Commissioner Mosotho Moepya. 

The 2016 municipal elections were officially launched in Midrand last month.

Every five years South Africa holds the Local Government Elections. Local government is made up of municipalities, which are run by councils.

“Given the level of discussions in the country, there will be increase in the turnout. We will prepare for every registered voter and we hope they will come,” said Moepya.

The City of Ekurhuleni is on a mission to become a smart city after recently launching free Wi-Fi.  Wi-Fi is a local area wireless computer networking technology that allows electronic devices to connect to the network.

The city’s fibre and Wi-Fi expansion plans have already been defined and are being rolled out over a period of three years, from 2015 to 2017, at a cost of over R120 million. A total of R25 million has already been spent.

Twenty-one-year-old Johannesburg golfer Haydn Porteous became R2.6- million richer after winning the 2016 Joburg Open at the Royal Johannesburg and Kensington Golf Club in Linksfield North.
 

The young man's top-drawer performance, which saw him peel off a 210-strong field of local and international golfers to finish three-under 69, was greeted with glee by Acting Johannesburg Mayor Councillor Mally Mokoena. MMC Mokoena said Porteous's victory demonstrated that the future of golf in Johannesburg was in good hands.

Victims of sexual crimes will now have access to victim-friendly, efficient and sensitive services through the Sexual Offences Courts launched by the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development.