Smallholder farmers yield crops and jobs
Nthambeleni Gabara
Farming in South Africa comes with many challenges for smallholder farmers who have minimal resources and skills to compete in the commercial environment.
A brighter future with science
Thembisa Shologu - Gauteng Provincial Government
Photo caption: Learners are fascinated by an electronic exhibit during National Science Week.
South Africa has a lot to be proud of in the world of science and technology said Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor.
Innovative youth can change SA’s character
SAnews.gov.za
Photo caption: Minister Naledi Pandor with the winners of the SKA-Meerkat competition
Learners should be innovative so they can change the character of South Africa, said Minister of Science and Technology Naledi Pandor. The Minister encouraged learners who won the Square Kilometre Array (SKA)-MeerKat Schools Competition to study Maths and Science.
Limpopo school keeps the flame burning
Samona Murugan
Photo caption: Despite the absence of books, teaching and learning never stopped at Mbilwi Secondary School in Limpopo
Despite being without textbooks for the first half of the year, learners, teachers and parents at Mbilwi Secondary School in Sibasa, have been determined to do well.
Zambian doctors impressed by SA’s TB facilities
Howard Kgoa - Department of Health
Photo caption: A delegation of Zambian doctors with hospital staff during a visit to the King George V Hospital in Durban.
A delegation of Zambian doctors on an educational tour to South Africa has lauded the country’s multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB sites.
September is National Heart Aware- ness Month. It serves as a reminder that heart disease can affect anyone and that heart attacks and strokes are major killers in all parts of the world. However, in many cases they can be prevented if we change unhealthy lifestyle choices to healthy ones.
Heart disease and stroke are the number one killers in South Africa. One in three men and one in four women will suffer from cardiovascular disease (affecting the heart and the rest of the blood vessels) before they are 60 years old.
Soweto mom’s HIV heroism moves Sir Elton John and US VIPs
SAnews.gov.za
“I play before capacity crowds and get an awful sense of fulfillment from that. But the emotion cannot compare to listening to Florence this morning.”
Bridge links tourists to Madiba’s legacy
Nthambeleni Gabara
Photo caption: President Jacob Zuma with Eastern Cape Premier Noxolo Kiviet at the site of the Nelson Mandela Legacy Bridge, Ludondolo village near Mthatha
BRT system to change Tshwane landscape
SAnews.gov.za
Photo caption: Tshwane’s new BRT system will go a long way towards easing traffic congestion in the city.
By April 2014, commuters in and around Tshwane will be able to hop into sleek, new buses driving in special lanes to get to their destinations without being stuck in traffic.
Samona Murugan
Photo caption: The FET Expansion and Development Programme Fund aims to make good quality tertiary education more accessible and affordable to even more young people. (Photo: Volkswagen South Africa MediaClubSouthAfrica.com)