The Portfolio Committee on Social Development has expressed concern over alleged treatment of disabled children and the handling of rape cases involving teachers in Bushbuckridge in Mpumalanga.
A Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) report has revealed that Tuberculosis remained the main leading cause of death in South Africa between 2016 and 2018.
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Minister, Thoko Didiza, and Western Cape Agriculture MEC, Ivan Meyer, have officially commissioned the Ebenhaezer Irrigation Scheme in the West Coast District.
The KwaZulu-Natal provincial government has set up a database aimed at helping unemployed graduates.
South Africa recorded 5 552 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, representing an 18.5% positivity rate.
Small Business Development Minister, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, will today officially open the Green Lounge in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.
Aspen says it will release 300 000 Johnson & Johnson (J&J) doses earmarked for teachers soon.
In a statement released on Monday, Aspen said it was “extremely disappointed” to learn that specific batches of the J&J manufactured at its Gqeberha production site have to be destroyed.
This is due to the good manufacturing practice risk of isolated material in the drug substance supplied to Aspen by J&J from their contract-manufacturing partner in the United States.
Limited access to funding and land, including bureaucracy, are among the key challenges facing young people in the agricultural sector.
Employers should find a reasonable resolution that accommodates all parties where employees refuse to be vaccinated for medical and constitutional grounds, says Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi.
The Minister made the call in a new consolidated direction on occupational health and safety measures in certain workplaces. The measures are contained in a direction he recently gazetted.
A key principle of the guidelines is that employers and employees should treat each other with mutual respect.
Forty-one percent of students were unable to buy their own food after tertiary institutions closed to limit the spread of COVID-19, with 40.1% of youth returning home during the hard lockdown last year.
Less than 1% reported that they had no place to stay.
These are some of the findings contained in the survey conducted by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and Higher Health.
