Covid-19: The epidemic reveals the cracks in our health and welfare systems: Improving services in rural KwaZulu-Natal Source: GroundUp News. NPA and IPID commit to tackling high-level police corruption: This comes after two investigators were pulled from task team Source: GroundUp News. Alcohol ban creates flourishing black market for Ghanaian whisky: “Selling whisky sachets and cigarettes is the only option l have at the moment” Source: GroundUp News. R92 million and six years … [Read more...] about Covid-19: The epidemic reveals the cracks in our health and welfare systems – News from GroundUp
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Animal Welfare Society fuelled by Mastertons Coffee and Tea Specialists – MyPR.co.za
Animal Welfare Society fuelled by Mastertons Coffee and Tea Specialists: (L to R) Deco Nonkonyane with Kelsey (dog), Neville Schmelzer with Maggie (dog), Unathi Mbewu and a pup, Steven Khombela with Sonny (dog). Photo: Cynthea van Rhijn Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, 09 April 2019- Mastertons Coffee and Tea Specialists, Nelson Mandela Bay’s original coffee roastery has donated over R17 000 to Animal Welfare Society Port Elizabeth (AWS PE) to bolster their vital transportation fund. The donation … [Read more...] about Animal Welfare Society fuelled by Mastertons Coffee and Tea Specialists – MyPR.co.za
PE in the news: Ensuring the welfare of the seafarer
Ensuring the welfare of the seafarer: SSTG has the largest number of maritime accreditations in South Africa and provides holistic services to students at each of its three major locations (Cape Town, St Helena Bay and Port Elizabeth) including a combination of transport, accommodation ... Source: "Port Elizabeth" - BingNews. A record on the cards for Cape Town Marathon?: Frith van der Merwe’s 2:27:36, set in 1989 in Port Elizabeth, is the fastest in Africa, with Cape Town Marathon record … [Read more...] about PE in the news: Ensuring the welfare of the seafarer
Grahamstown in the news: Child welfare reels from EC budget cuts
Child welfare reels from EC budget cuts: After a century of service to thousands of children across the region, Grahamstown Child Welfare is battling to keep its head above water with its state funding slashed. The organisation is one of dozens of child welfare and child development non-profit ... Source: "Grahamstown" - BingNews. Festival footfall drop hits traders, artists: Things got off to a slow start in week two of the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, with Dr Stef the Hypnotist … [Read more...] about Grahamstown in the news: Child welfare reels from EC budget cuts
Bhisho news: Bhisho U-turn on welfare budgets
Bhisho U-turn on welfare budgets: The Eastern Cape’s Department of Social Development has unreservedly apologised for its decision to slash the budgets of several non-profit welfare organisations in Buffalo City and Nelson Mandela Bay. The department has also committed to review the ... Source: "Bhisho" - BingNews. Bhisho says sorry for NPO budget cuts: Eastern Cape’s social development department has unreservedly apologised for its decision to slash the budgets of several non-profit welfare … [Read more...] about Bhisho news: Bhisho U-turn on welfare budgets
King Williams Town news: Bhisho U-turn on welfare budgets
Bhisho U-turn on welfare budgets: Addressing the media in King William’s Town yesterday, acting head of department Ntombi Baart said: “We are sorry for the inconvenience caused to all the NPOs by the subsidy reductions and we are committing to revise the budget and see how we [can ... Source: "King Williams Town" - BingNews. WATCH: Deepening crisis over BCM’s ailing fire truck fleet: This is despite the fact that these trucks are all unroadworthy – or not properly equipped to deal with fire … [Read more...] about King Williams Town news: Bhisho U-turn on welfare budgets
Doggy walk for Animal Welfare – Featured Blog
Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Doggy walk for Animal Welfare: Yesterday (Saturday) morning we took the sausages for a walk on the beach along with probably a hundred or so other pooches as part of a fundraiser for Animal Welfare. The weather was perfect and the dogs and their human servants had a great time out. So interesting watching everybody with the dogs of different shapes and sizes. Source: Port Elizabeth Daily Photo. Early … [Read more...] about Doggy walk for Animal Welfare – Featured Blog
Why I am Happy to Live in a ‘Third World’ Country
One finds that as democracies age disgracefully into First World status, the number of shock, gasp, moral decrepitude stories increase exponentially. Take the UK's welfare state as an example - I know guys in the UK living off of welfare, getting a new car every two years (from the state mind you) AND running an 'entirely illegal home business' that supplements their income no end. These oxygen thieves have no compunction about boasting about how they rip the UK government off either! And … [Read more...] about Why I am Happy to Live in a ‘Third World’ Country
