North West to spend R10m on vulnerable children
{pp}The North West Department of Social Development is to spend R10.9 million on orphans and vulnerable children as part of their back to school support campaign.
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Drug rehab centre to open in Delft
{pp}A drug rehabilitation and child care centre is to open in one of Cape Town’s most notorious communities.
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HIV/Aids infections in SA continue to rise
{pp}South Africa is now officially the country with the most HIV infections. This evidence of incapacity forms part of the latest report on the global AIDS epidemic released by UNAids HIV statistics and once again puts South Africa's AIDS policies in the spotlight as ineffective and failing dismally only days before World Aids Day on 1 December.
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Will the Childrens Amendment Bill really improve the well-being of SA children?
{pp}South Africa currently has in place a commitment to children’s rights of which it can justly feel proud. The denial of children’s rights under apartheid, and the brutal treatment of those who resisted, spawned a deep child rights consciousness in those involved in making the new state. To this end, the South African Bill of Rights, law reform and policy decisions all support the well-being and positive development of children.
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Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Responds to Consumer Needs
{pp}In light of the recent blackouts experienced in the Greater Ekurhuleni Metropolitan area the municipality is responding to consumer needs by investing over R25million in upgrading and strengthening of its electrical infrastructure.
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Live transmission of the "46664 Concert at Red Location Museum!
{pp}The 46664 Concert is to be transmitted live from both the external (giant) and internal (big) screens at Red Location Museum. The Live transmission is in preparation for the "NoNameFever-uGawulayo" Exhibition which would be launched at the Museum on 14 December 2007. The latter is a combo-exhibition which stems from the World Culture Museum's "NoNameFever" Exhibition and the Red Location Museum's "uGawulayo" collection.
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Memory Book Project at Red Location Museum
{PP}As part of Red Location Museum’s marketing campaign – it was envisaged that it would be good for the Museum to work on a community project with the immediate surrounding residents which would simultaneously afford the Museum the opportunity to add to its collections. A pre-selected group of 20 Red Location Residents (age group 50 and upwards) will participate in a project where they would be able to tell their narrative in a three dimensional memory book format.
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"NoNameFever-uGawulayo" Exhibition coming up at Red Location Museum from 14 December 2007
{pp}December 2007: Red Location Museum, Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa. Since 1981 over 24 million people have died from HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Globally, statistics have escalated to more than 25 million deaths. And in Africa – over 12 million children have been subsequently orphaned.
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Body Maps at David Krut Projects for World AIDS Day
{pp}From 22 November David Krut Projects will show Body Maps by the Bambanani Women. The Bambanani Women were invited to tell their stories of living with HIV/AIDS through a community outreach program initiated by the AIDS and Society Research Unit of the University of Cape Town (ASRU) and Médecins Sans Frontières.
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Citizens and voters in South Africa should be very concerned by the ANCs recent grabs at power.
{pp}The voters of South Africa should be very afraid of our country becoming a one party state. The ANC does not need many more MP’s in parliament to ensure that they have no opposition in changing our countries founding document, the constitution.
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