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The Transnet Foundation Orphaned Youth Education Development Programme, one of the services offered by the Transnet Foundation, is giving hope to vulnerable and orphaned high school children.

The programme currently helps 10 Grade 11 learners, who attend fiveday life skills workshops twice a year, and 20 Grade 8 learners, who attend three life skills camps in a year.

The European Investment Bank plans to fund small and medium enterprises and universities in South Africa to contribute to development.

The bank’s head of regional representation in Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean, Carmelo Cocuzza, said these were among several investment opportunities that the European Union Bank was aiming for in the near future.

The South African government will continue to work towards meeting the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) whose 2015 deadline is fast approaching.

Petso Lesomo, owner of Lesomo Trading and Projects, is passionate about his furniture-making business, which is supported by the National Youth Development Agency.

He supplies schools with office furniture, desks and chairs and also makes kitchen cupboards and wall units.

Growing up in Tlhabane West, Rustenburg, Lesomo always wanted to start a business that would make a difference in his community.

When Matseke Maserumule, 28, left the corporate world in 2012 to follow her passion for caring for the environment, she had no idea that she would end up running a leading recycling business.

In 2010, Maserumule registered Silver Ink Environmental, Solutions and Projects CC but the company only started operating in January 2013.

Nonceba Lubenga, 87, could not contain her excitement or find words to express her gratitude when she was named one of the first beneficiaries of the government campaign to build over 5 000 houses for military veterans.

Lubenga, who was one of the first three military veterans identified on the Gauteng database, said she was happy that government has decided to honour their contribution to the country’s liberation.

Communities will now experience an improved local government and receive satisfactory and good quality service.

Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Pravin Gordhan, who spoke at the recent at the Presidential Local Government Summit, said municipalities would spend public funds carefully, hire competent staff, ensure transparency and be accountable to the people it serve.

A new hospital, launched two months ago, has brought much-needed health care services closer to Vosloorus and neighbouring communities.

The hospital moved from its old building in Katlehong to the new one in Vosloorus, and it came with a certain number of patients.

The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development has identified as a priority service deliver improvements, which include the turnaround of the maintenance services.

Did you know?

1. It is now possible to grant a maintenance order on the first day of application. Apply for your child today.