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Schooling 2025 is the name of a new action plan by government to improve the education system in schools. It aims to improve all aspects of education such as teacher recruitment, learner enrolment, school funding, mass literacy and numeracy and overall quality of education.

Government has announced major changes to the economy to create jobs and speed up infrastructure development.

President Jacob Zuma will head a newly created Infrastructure Commission, while Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe will chair a new Job Creation Commission to reaffirm governmnt's commitment to these important issues.

n 2002, at the age of 11, Emily’s left leg was amputated as a result of osteosarcoma – that is cancer of the femur. 

Chemotherapy had failed to reduce the cancer, so she had to make a life-changing decision, to either lose her leg or lose her life! After losing her leg, the outgoing and sport loving girl who loved surfing, backpacking, running middle distance races and hiking felt like her life had come to a grinding halt. 

All of this, added to the pressing need in the country to identify and develop talented athletes, has led government to re-introduce Physical Education (PE) in schools. 

Lethloo, a 38-year-old father of two young boys, who attended the International Day of People with Disabilities event in Bloemfontein at the end of 2011, said he wanted nothing more than a job.

He uses a wheelchair to get around but said given a chance, he can do anything with his hands.

In 1998, he became the director of KwaZulu-Natal’s Asiphephe (Let us be safe) Road Safety Project, a sub-directorate within the provincial Department of Transport. “Our task was to reduce the number of road crashes that have led to so many deaths and cases of disability,” he says.

Which human activities contribute to climate change?

Climate change is caused by an increase in greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide due to human activities.

This is the second time that South Africa has served on the Security Council following its first term from 2007 to 2008.

South Africa’s present non-permanent membership of the UNSC followed its election in October 2010. 

South Africa played a supporting role by helping transport ballot papers from our country, where they were printed, to the various voting stations in all corners of the large West African country.