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LISTEN | DA-run Western Cape is better than ANC provinces: Alan Winde

Western Cape premier Alan Winde has criticised the ANC and boasted about his DA-led province’s achievements “where ANC had failed” — from employment and education to policing and crime.

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LISTEN | DA-run Western Cape is better than ANC provinces: Alan Winde

Western Cape premier Alan Winde has criticised the ANC and boasted about his DA-led province’s achievements “where ANC had failed” — from employment and education, to policing and crime.

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More than 80,000 needy Eastern Cape girls to get free sanitary towels

More than 80,000 Eastern Cape girls from poor backgrounds are to receive free sanitary towels, courtesy of the department of social development.Social development MEC Bukiwe Fanta announced on Tuesday that the department had begun the rollout of “sanitary dignity packs”, with one pack designed to last a girl the full school year.

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Social development supplying thousands of sanitary packs to East Cape pupils

The Eastern Cape social development department has started distributing sanitary dignity packs to almost 84,000 underprivileged pupils in a multimillion-rand project set to continue for the duration of the financial year.

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Inadequate disability grants for SA children thrust families into poverty

Stellenbosch University PhD graduate’s study has found families without an income that care for a disabled child, can barely survive on the state grant

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CRY FOR HELP: Starving Eastern Cape families appeal to president

Children in the Eastern Cape are starving. So acute is the problem that desperate residents have begged the country’s president and the province’s premier to intervene.On Wednesday, health MEC Nomakhosazana Meth’s spokesperson, Mkhululi Ndamase, said that between April 2021 and September 2023 about 3,070 Eastern Cape children were treated for acute malnutrition and 1,314 were admitted to hospital for acute malnutrition.

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NSFAS changes course pass criteria

Students who fail to obtain a 60% course average will no longer receive financial aid starting from next year.

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