.com | Sex workers’ rights group ‘cautious’ over ANC’s decriminalisation decision:
.com | Sex workers’ rights group ‘cautious’ over ANC’s decriminalisation decision:
Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce has welcomed the decision by the African National Congress to fully decriminalise sex work in SA. The announcement was made at a media briefing on the party's social transformation commission resolutions on Wednesday, the last day of the 54th ANC national elective conference at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Soweto, Johannesburg.
.com | ‘Miracle’ woman home for Christmas after three heart attacks, stroke:
A 55-year-old woman from Krugersdorp in Johannesburg is looking forward to spending Christmas with her family after surviving three heart attacks and a stroke. She suffered two heart attacks on September 16 and was transferred to the Netcare Krugersdorp Hospital on September 19 where she suffered another heart attack and a stroke.
#ANC54: Ruling party wants speedy implementation of #freeeducation:
South Africa's ruling African National Congress resolved at its 54th national elective conference in Johannesburg to support the implementation of free higher education as announced by President Jacob Zuma last week. “There was a very, very strong call that government must act speedily to implement the free higher education for young people from poor and working class backgrounds, and also to support for families in the middle strata who are unable to meet the full costs of higher education,” chairperson of ANC's subcommittee on education and health, Naledi Pandor, said while addressing journalists at the conference in Johannesburg on Wednesday.
Where are the oil benefits – the everlasting citizen’s question:
A country may be endowed with the most sought-after natural resources but when its benefits do not reflect in the lives of its people, it will be met with an open expression of anger when issues of the role of resources in national development are being discussed. As the Ghanaian proverb goes, “An old lady feels uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb”, Oil resources became a new kid on the block and was well celebrated after the declaration of its discovery in commercial quantities and the expectations of all stakeholders were further heightened as the price of crude oil on the world market was at a record high.
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