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Keeping it brief

More than 30 000 police officers are being recruited and trained specifically for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. This is part of South Africa’s Security Master Plan for 2010. To gain experience of monitoring security during soccer games, the new police officers will start doing duty at Premier Soccer League matches this year and in 2009. 

The police need your help

Crimes like theft, housebreaking, shoplifting, handbag or cell phone snatching, and theft out of motor vehicles lead to unnecessary suffering. 

CO-OPERATIVES
GET TOGETHER AND DO BUSINESS

Are you unemployed and there are others like you? Put on a united front and the Department of Trade and Industry can help you to start your own business. But, it can only happen if you draw up a plan for a business you will run jointly with your partners. It is called a co-operative and this is how you do it.

ALBINISM - don't discriminate

"As a person living with albinism, people tend to think that I'm different from them. They don't realise that there is nothing different about me; only my skin colour is lighter than theirs."
These touching words was part of an essay with which Mitchell Chuan, then a Grade 12 learner at Lushikishiki Senior Secondary School in Limpopo, won the 2005 Albinism Society of South Africa essay competition on albinism.

ROLE MODEL
EVERYBODY LOVES DJ FISTO

Albinism did not stop him 
Bafana Dludla, or Fisto as he is known, is the third of four brothers and the only one in the family with albinism. But his skin condition has never made him feel less important. Dludla (32) says his positive outlook on life has more to do with how people close to him have treated him since he was a child growing up in Enxiweni Section in Tembisa, Johannesburg.

HELPING THE POOR TO HELP THEMSELVES

The Department of Social Development, through its agency called the National Development Agency, has started a number of projects to fight poverty. Among them are three projects in the Free State, which received a total of R1,8 million. 
The money is used to start or improve farming projects that not only help people to improve their lives, but also benefit the communities as a whole.

Mental health

The year 2008 is upon us and not everyone is looking forward to what lies ahead for them. 

For many people the beginning of the year is a time of sadness and hopelessness. Some of them are unemployed or are learners who have failed at school. For these people the future appears to offer no hope of success to such an extent that taking their own lives seems to be the only solution.

Awareness

A better life for all

The hot summer days that most of us enjoy after winter have not been so enjoyable for residents of Snake Park in Soweto in the past. Instead, it brought misery to them, said 61-year old Rebecca Shingange. 

They did not have flushing toilets, which was especially difficult in summer. “Summer meant having to stomach an unbearable smell, and fighting flies all day and night,” she said.

Flushing toilets