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MZANSI SALUTES NURSES! 13 May 2021 Comments Nurses from Cape Town celebrating International Nurses Day last year. This year, the healthcare sector had to be on the frontline as the world dealt with the Covid-19 pandemic. Photo by Jaco Marais. ON WEDNESDAY, 12 May, Mzansi saluted its dedicated nurses. South African nurses celebrated International Nurses Day following a particularly difficult period. In Tshwane, the Democratic Nurs...

Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images Nursing unions are not convinced provincial health departments are ready for Mondays vaccine rollout.  People aged 60 and above are set to receive the Covid-19 vaccination from next week. People will receive the two-dose Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.  Nursing unions have raised concerns about the readiness of provinces to rollout Covid-19 vaccinations next week. On Monday, the country will start vaccinating people aged 60 and above, using the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine....

───   OLEBOGENG MOTSE 15:11 Wed, 12 May 2021 Provincial Police Commissioner, Baile Motswenyane PHOTO: Olebogeng Motse Free State law enforcement agencies concede that they have failed to competently handle the scourge of gender-based violence (GBV) in the province. The Acting Free State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Navilla Somaru, and Provincial Police Commissioner, Baile Motswenyane, admitted during day one of the first GBV and Femicide Indaba ...

Siyanda Mbele infuses his modern furniture designs with Zulu symbolism 25 April 2021 - 00:00 By Leana Schoeman Siyanda Mbele. Image: Supplied Siyanda Mbele, a Durban-based interior and furniture designer at Pinda Design — a company known for its beautifully crafted furniture pieces that celebrate traditional African aesthetics in a unique and contemporary way — gives us some insight into his life and work. Describe yourself in five words. Ambivert, caring, intellig...

okayafrica Photo by AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images BURBANK, CA - NOVEMBER 27: General views of the Batman bronze statue on the AMC Walkway in Downtown Burbank, home of Warner Bros studios on November 27, 2020 in Burbank, California. South Africas Loyiso Mkize Reveals Momentous DC Comics Debut South African visual artist Loyiso Mkize has pencilled an episode for DC Comics Batman: Urban Legends #4. South African storyteller and visual artist Loyiso Mkize has revealed his excitin...

Content provided by Last updated: 8 hours ago Investing in African Mining Indaba (Mining Indaba) (www.MiningIndaba.com), organised by Hyve Group Plc announced the newly expanded Advisory Board last week. The strategic committee includes distinguished finance, technology, sustainability, mining operations, policy, and governance leaders whose focus will be to shape and guide the priorities of the conference. “Designed to refle...

The concert will be held at YoungBlood Studios in Bree Street on Saturday 8th May at 7pm NewMusicSA presents the third concert of its Digital Indaba 2021 Concert Series. A selected programme of works including the second movement of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony arranged for piano trio, a new commission for voice and piano trio from Neo Muyanga, and works from other South African composers, performed by Lungiswa Plaatjies (voice), Matthijs van Dijk (violin), Graham du Plessis (cello) & David L...

Leveraging Mining-Related Infrastructure Investments for Development (Rails, Port, Power, Water and ICT) To be beneficial for a country’s development, non-renewable resource extraction should be leveraged to build long-term assets, such as infrastructure, that will support sustainable and inclusive growth. This is especially critical for countries facing an infrastructure-funding gap (e.g. the World Bank’s Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic has estimated that Africa faces an annual in...

Zimbabwe: Local quota for women now in parliament Date: April 23, 2021 By Priscilla Maposa, Harare, 19 April: The campaign for a quota for women in local government went into high gear in Zimbabwe this week with the tabling of a Constitutional amendment in parliament.  This seeks to extend the system in place at the national level to the local level with 30% seats reserved for women and distributed on a Proportional Representation (PR) basis. Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Z...

iAfrica 4 weeks ago 4 min read Share with your network! New Leaf Technologies recently hosted the second instalment of their eLearning Indaba for 2021. The hour-and-a-half long Zoom session saw over 500 human resources (HR) and learning and development (L&D) professionals register to gain valuable insights into key trends shaping online learning. The eLearning market has grown a whopping 900%...