The United States National Institute for Health has injected R 220 million for research on HIV/AIDS to the Universities of Witswatersrand, Cape Town and Stellenbosch for AIDS research. The money will be used to help the development of black researchers and the bulk of the money will be used to conduct research in black townships over five years.

“I would like to pledge my support in raising the funds and resources necessary … to place your sculpture at the South Africa Nobel Laureates Peace Memorial.” These were the words of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu when he performed the symbolical unveiling of the statue the angel of the Marquette of the Spirit of Africa in Johannesburg Art Gallery.

The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) embodies a united vision of a continent on the move, at a time of unprecedented international interest in proposals to move the world's least developed region forward.

The Eastern Cape provincial government, in partnership with the Public Service Commission, is expected to launch the Explanatory Manual on the Code of Conduct in Bisho. This week, Eastern Cape Resident Public Service Commissioner, Mzwandile Msoki, said the explanatory manual was developed to assist in simplifying the code of conduct for all civil servants.

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Edith's son Hein was barely 11 months old when he was removed from his mother and placed in foster care. His mother, a former computer consultant, who is serving 15 years, speaks of her heartbreak in Pollsmoor Prison's recently launched newsletter. The 26-year-old mother of two from Alberton is one of nine female inmates from Pollsmoor - serving time for murder, theft and fraud - to produce the prison's first newsletter.

This is a unique opportunity to work alongside the South African National Parks Board (SANP) to help in the conservation and management of their 18 National Parks, which encompasses much of the country's unique fauna, flora and cultural sites.

The scanty media coverage of HIV-Aids in the absence of controversy was a failure of responsibility to the public, Joel Netshitenze, Government Communications Information Service CEO, said in a panel discussion in Johannesburg last Saturday to mark Media Freedom Day, the SABC reported.

Deputy-president Jacob Zuma has met with the Treatment Action Campaign leadership, the second positive indication in less than a week that Government was grappling with providing anti-retrovirals in the public sector. In a significant move, Zuma and director-general for health Dr Ayanda Ntsaluba met with the TAC representatives led by national chairperson Zackie Achmat and national secretary Mark Heywood at Tuynhuys last Tuesday night.

Two families were evicted from council houses in Azalea Road, Steurhof this morning. The families are long-term residents in the area who were forcibly removed during the Apartheid era. Now, in the post-Apartheid era, they again face losing their homes.

In South Africa, South Durban is a place where the toxic chemical industry is allowed to continue to operate even after there have been four explosions in the past month. In one incident, a worker was killed when a fuel tank exploded. It had exploded a week before, but government had failed to shut it down.

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From 8:30am tomorrow, hundreds of Khayelitsha residents will gather outside the Mitchells Plein magistrate’s court to show their support for five community members who were jailed and face outstanding charges as a result of an interdict by multinational banks.

The National Community Radio Forum (NCRF) will host a bosberaad on the 18 - 19 October 2002 in Johannesburg.

A report was sent to President Thabo Mbeki and members of his cabinet on Tuesday calling on government to hold corporates accountable for damage done to the environment. The report, released by groundWork, a non-governmental organisation, stated that government had consistently failed to use the law, licences or sanctions to hold accountable corporate companies implicated in damaging the environment.

In June the South African government passed a set of acts to allow local and municipal government councillors, as well as provincial and national members of parliament to change political parties without losing their seats. The acts have important short-term implications for coalition politics and the control of local and provincial governments in South Africa, and they address issues at the heart of the country's debate over electoral system reform, according to a report from the Electoral Institute of Southern Africa.

South Africa's financial contributions to international relief programmes in Africa had halved during the past three years from R12,1-million to R6-million, according to the foreign affairs department's annual report for the year ending March 2002.

The Information Systems Electronics and Telecommunications Technologies' (ISETT) Sector Education and Training Authority (SETA) has made a grant worth R11.7 million available to the Siemens Information and Communications Training Institute in Pretoria.The institute, launched in April, aims to develop highly skilled manpower for the telecoms industry.

Gately Rotary Club has donated a resource centre costing R86 000 to the community of Kwetyana in Newlands. The resource centre boasts new toilets, a fence, water, and electricity and it will also house a clinic and library.

The European Union has suspended funding for a project geared towards building of schools and clinics for Eastern Cape poor areas. This follows the apparent misappropriation of close to R3 million by several employees.