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Funeral undertakers threaten to shut down home affairs headquarters The body representing the undertakers called the Unification Task Team on Monday said if government didn’t address their concerns, they would go on a full-blown national strike. FILE: A mortician getting ready to prepare a coffin for a COVID-19 body at Broodie Funeral Parlour in Soshanguve. Picture: Boikhutso Ntsoko/Eyewitness News JOHANNE...

National May 7, 2021 SUKKUR: As many as five gates of Sukkur and Guddu Barrages have been replaced, while fabrication of several others is underway. This information came to fore during a virtual meeting of the World Bank over the modernization and rehabilitation of Sukkur and Guddu Barrages presided over by Task Team leader François Onimus on Thursday. Mohiuddin Mughal, Project Director, presented a detailed progress report, saying replacement of the gates of three canals taking off from Gud...

The Constitution, which marks its 25th anniversary on Saturday, needs to be protected, writes Thabo Mbeki. He argues that the defence put forward that constitutional democracy is a threat to democracy is part of a counter-revolutionary offensive aimed at overthrowing the ANC, and installing another power who would manage the country, without the "framework of rules" provided by our Constitution. The Constitutional Assembly, democratically elected in 1994, adopted our National Constitution on ...

From student to supplier: DUT student manufactures hand sanitisers for campus Covid teams Share DURBAN - A GLENMORE Master’s student is now manufacturing and supplying his own university with hand sanitisers. Ntokozo Mabaso, who graduated with a BTech in Analytical Chemistry in 2014, went on to form his company, Nuffsaid Sciences (Pty) Ltd in 2018 after he struggled to find a job. Mabasos company specialises in consulting, operates as a mobile laboratory and does product testing, validation, ...

Volunteers can register to help this weekend, and all the way up to 10 May says co-ordinator Nirode Bramdaw.

Global Protection Cluster - GPC Human Rights Engagement Task Team Newsletter, Issue 1, May 2021 Format Webinar on strategic engagement with the HRC Advocacy plan The HRE TT held a webinar on 16th March on Strategic Engagement with the Human Rights Council (HRC) to ensure the application of international human rights law in humanitarian situations. The HRC resolution on Promoting, protecting and fulfilling women’s and girls’ full enjoyment of human rights in humanitarian situations (2020) wa...

Four suspects aged between 23 and 44 were arrested between16 and 18 April 2021 by a newly established Task Team after a 47-year-old male was shot and fatally wounded by unknown people at his homestead at Ntshamathe locality, Mbizana on 16 April 2021. It is alleged that the deceased went to close the garage door at a distance of 25 meters from his house when an unconfirmed number of suspects entered the yard and shot the deceased with firearms. The deceased succumbed to his wounds on the way to ...

Farm couple traumatised after robbers storm in during dinner, visitor runs for his life By IOL Reporter Share Cape Town – A couple and a visiting family member were left traumatised when five suspects barged into an Alicedale, Eastern Cape, farmhouse. The 48-year-old woman’s husband, 49, was tied up with a dog leash before she was ordered to open their safe. The incident took place at 7.05pm, 41km from Makhanda (Grahamstown). Goods to the value of R111 000 were stolen – four firearms, two...

Organisational context The GPC is a network of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), international organizations and United Nations (UN) agencies, engaged in protection work in humanitarian crises including armed conflict, climate change related and natural disaster. The GPC is mandated by the IASC, led by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), governed by a Strategic Advisory Group, co-chaired by the GPC Coordinator and an operational NGO, and serviced by a multi-partner Op...

Who are we? The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) has been providing relief and development services in the Horn of Africa since 1997. Using a protection of human rights framework, DRC has mainly focused on Somalis who are displaced by conflict. Programmers include protection, livelihood, food and NFI distribution, water and sanitation, and advocacy amongst others. DRC Yemen has been providing relief and development services in Yemen since 2008. DRC has mainly focused on refugees and migrants displa...