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Victim call centre receives award

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Pretoria - Government’s Gender-Based Violence Command Centre was on Wednesday awarded the Changing Lives Award at the 2014 AfricaCom Awards for providing telephonic support and counselling to victims of gender-based violence.

Finance Minister Nene highlights challenges facing SA

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Pretoria - The need to encourage greater private sector investment and the need to improve the state’s capacity to monitor, implement and manage projects are the two major challenges facing the economy, says Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene.

Nutrition programme halted in affected schools

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Pretoria – The Department of Basic Education says the National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) has been halted in schools where reports of food contamination have emerged.

More black female research students needed

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Cape Town – Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor says the country needs more black female research students in the science and technology field from the new generation of students.

Company penalised in waste case

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Pretoria - The Lydenburg Magistrate’s Court has ordered Samancor Chrome Limited to pay R200 000 for contravening the Environment Conservation Act.

SA reflects on public service since democracy

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Pretoria – Public Service and Administration Minister, Collins Chabane, says as the country celebrates the 20th year since the dawn of democracy, there is a need to reflect on what the country has achieved and what challenges still lie ahead with regards to the public service.

SA ready to receive bodies of fallen

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On September 12 the lives of countless South Africans were forever transformed when a multi-storey guest house of the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Lagos, Nigeria, collapsed.

SA hopes to bring home all Nigeria tragedy victims

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Lagos – The South African government says it’s still hoping to bring back this weekend, all the mortal remains of the South Africans, who died when a church building collapsed in Nigeria in September.

Government to review broadcasting policy

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Cape Town – Communications Minister Faith Muthambi says government will undertake a broadcasting policy review which will, amongst others, ensure that the broadcasting regulation framework is brought in-line with new practices.

World conference on education underway

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Pretoria - Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga is among the panel members sitting in on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) world conference on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), in Nagoya, Japan.