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Data Collection for the Living Conditions Survey (LCS) 2014/15 conducted by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) started on 13 October 2014. The LCS data is used to monitor and profile the poverty levels in the country and also provides the necessary data to inform the development and maintenance of household national accounts and monitor inequality.

Youth matters

The Solomon Mahlangu Scholarship Fund, a fund of the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA), is now accepting applications for the 2015 scholarships.

This is the second year the Solomon Mahlangu Scholarship Fund will be awarded to students who excel in the classroom and wish to pursue studies in scarce skills at Universities, Universities of Technology as well as all public Further Education and Training (FET) Colleges.

Youth matters

Shortly after Collen Zwane, Charlene Mazibuko and Siyabonga Skhosana matriculated, they decided to start a cleaning services company to create jobs in their community.

Youth matters

Nineteen-year-old Nonhlanhla Seerane is following her dream of becoming an accountant thanks to the Solomon Mahlangu Scholarship Fund.

The 2015 academic year promises to be a better and brighter one for students at higher education institutions, thanks to a number of interventions announced by the Department of Higher Education and Training.

These initiatives are aimed at ensuring that higher education is more accessible to South Africans.

Every South African has a responsibility to report incidence of abuse against women and children.

These are sentiments shared by Nomsa Dombo and Advocate Lida van Schalkwyk - the two ladies who are part of a team that runs the Mamelodi Thuthuzela Care Centre (TCC) in Pretoria.

Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko assured South Africans that security would be beefed up during the festive season.

“We will increase the number of police officers throughout the country to ensure the safety of all South Africans during the festive season,” he said.

Speaking at the launch of the festive season safety campaign Operation Duty Calls, in Escourt, KwaZulu-Natal, Minister Nhleko called on communities to report or expose any criminal activities in their communities. “As government, we need your assistance in fighting crime,” he said.

Visually impaired elderly citizens in Ga-Rankuwa, north of Pretoria, are planting vegetables to alleviate poverty and create jobs.

Joyce Sibeko, 68, is the founder and chairperson of Ikemiseng Association for the Blind in the area. Her farming association specialises in planting and growing vegetables such as spinach, carrots, beetroot and onions.

The village of Lubala in the Eastern Cape, has experienced positive changes over the past few years.

In 2008, when the War on Poverty campaign was launched, the village was chosen as one of the pilot sites to help improve the lives of residents.

At the time, the village was among the country’s most poverty-stricken areas and faced challenges such as a lack of basic services, high illiteracy rate, no access to primary health care services and lack of access to proper roads.

For many years, 56-year-old Cabangile Mdletshe worked on other people’s fields as a weeder. Mdletshe says life was difficult and she had to find ways to support her eight dependants.