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Andrew is no ordinary 11-year-old schoolboy. While boys his age are thinking about playing with their mates after school, he’s busy thinking about how he can save the world.

Following KwaZulu-Natal Premier Dr Zweli Mkhize’s promise to KZN residents that complaints from the public about poor service delivery would be resolved, the Ombudsman’s office assists the Presidential Hotline to follow up and resolve complaints from KwaZulu-Natal in addition to its normal duties.

It took Presidential Hotline staff just three days to resolve a problem that had dragged on for 18 months. Mr Andreatta of Edenvale in Gauteng had been wrongly penalised by the South African Revenue Services (SARS), who alleged that he did not submit his tax returns.

The earth’s climate is always changing and several centuries ago the causes of this change would have been primarily natural in origin. Apart from increasing average temperature, climate change also includes changes in rainfall patterns and in extreme weather events that lead to things like floods and droughts.

Live green: Act now! Spread the word at work, home, school and help save our living planet!!!

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Census 2011 – the “Big Count” is the third census taking place since South Africa’s democratic elections in 1994. It will be the biggest
census ever conducted in this country.

Statistics South Africa

The 2nd Biennial Summit, which was held in Durban from 13 to 15 October, served as a platform to share information and ideas about the problem of substance abuse.

1. Persons who have the responsibility of a parent with respect to a child placed in:

Workbooks for learners were introduced by Minister Angie Motshekga in 2011 to provide organised work in the form of worksheets for every child in mathematics and language.

The aim of the workbook programme is to provide every child with two books of worksheets – one for numeracy/mathematics and one for literacy/language in the child’s mother tongue. Each book contains 128 worksheets – one a day for four days of the week.

Her qualifications include a Higher National Diploma in Education, a Bachelor of Arts in Education from the University of the North, a Bachelor of Educational Science from the University of the Witwatersrand and a Masters Degree from the same university.