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Education a top priority for govt
The Department of Basic Education wants to see more South African children in school, learning and developing into successful young people who will contribute the country’s growth.
Soweto gets a new hospital
The new Zola-Jabulani District Hospital in Soweto was worth the wait says Cynthia Mavundla, who was one of the first patients to get medical care at the new facility.
Purpose of the Consumer Protection Act
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The purpose of the Consumer Protection Act is to prevent consumers from being exploited and harmed. The new Consumer Protection Act protects consumer rights in South Africa and highlights what consumers are entitled to, as well as the responsibility of suppliers of goods and services.
Know your consumer rights
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The Department of Trade and Industry (dti) has launched a month-long campaign aimed at educating the public about the new Consumer Protection Act. The campaign will mainly target rural areas where service providers take advantage of consumers by rendering poor services or selling harmful products.
Business booming on reclaimed land
Catherine Komane may have been just a child at the time but she remembers when she and her community were forcefully removed from their land by the apartheid government.
Be energy-efficient
Save it!
To raise awareness and get all South Africans on board to help save energy, government has launched the Save It! campaign. The campaign aims to promote a culture of energy efficiency in South Africa. With rising energy costs and the threat of global warming, we have to learn to use existing supplies of power more wisely to avoid a crisis.
New centre to empower black farmers
A R60 million multipurpose training and development centre to be built at the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) in Roodeplaat, Pretoria, is expected to give up-and-coming black commercial farmers a boost.
PASSIONATE ABOUT SERVING HIS COUNTRY
"I studied medicine because I was passionate about it and have always loved helping people." These are not just empty words from Bongani Mahlangu. A study loan from government gave him an
opportunity of a lifetime to study medicine in Cuba. He is now committed to serving the people of South Africa in the public sector, because it is the tax payers' money that helped him to become a doctor.



