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US, SA pledge to work for a 'free' Zimbabwe
Original Source by Shaun Tandon | Pretoria, South Africa The United States and South Africa pledged joint action on Friday to induce reforms in Zimbabwe as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hailed a new spirit of cooperation between the two democracies. Clinton, visiting Africa’s largest…
Author: Mail & Guardian
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Minister doubles condom distribution
by Caiphus Kgosana Taking a cue from President Jacob Zuma’s promise to halve new HIV and Aids infections in two years and Julius Malema’s “one girlfriend, one boyfriend” campaign, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has decided to double the number of free condoms. Motsoaledi said in…
Author: Daily News (South Africa)
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South Africa to boost spending on health
by CLARE NULLIS South Africa will boost spending on education, health and infrastructure projects even though the global economic turmoil is expected to cut growth rates, its finance minister said Tuesday. Trevor Manuel argued that the South African economy will be shielded from the…
Author: Associated Press Worldstream
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Planning to leave the world of work
by CLARE NULLIS South Africa will boost spending on education, health and infrastructure projects even though the global economic turmoil is expected to cut growth rates, its finance minister said Tuesday. Trevor Manuel argued that the South African economy will be shielded from the…
Author: The Irish Times
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RIP Nelson Mandela, Courageous Champion of Education, Equality, Democracy and Justice
We mourn the passing of Nelson Mandela, whose example, words and deeds have inspired and consistently reinforced the work of our grantees, colleagues and staff, in South Africa and across the globe, to secure and advance human rights and dignity, peace, reconciliation, restorative justice, and…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Up Close: Blogging from South Africa
Night and a Day in Queenstown Posted by Gara LaMarche | 18 March 2011, South Africa As Jack has chronicled, we arrived in Queenstown, the final leg of our journey in the Eastern Cape, in the dark, around 7 p.m. This was a problem for two…
Author: Gara LaMarche and Jack Rosenthal
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South African Children Push for Better Schools
Equal Education is an Atlantic grantee. By CELIA W. DUGGER CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Thousands of children marched to City Hall this week in sensible black shoes, a stream of boys and girls from township schools across this seaside city that extended for blocks,…
Author: The New York Times
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SA won't meet ARV roll-out target, says Motsoaledi
by PEROSHNI GOVENDER South Africa will not meet a target of providing life-prolonging drugs to 80% of people living with HIV/Aids by 2011 due to logistical problems and a lack of personnel, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Tuesday. “We are now covering 700 000…
Author: Mail & Guardian online
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S. Africa Embraces Study Critical of Health Policy
Original Source Several organisations involved in this report are Atlantic grantees: Save the Children, University of Cape Town, University of the Witwatersrand, University of KwaZulu-Natal, University of Pretoria, and University of the Western Cape. Funding for this publication was provided by Saving Newborn Lives/Save the…
Author: The New York Times
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It is a duty of yours, mine and the state's to end all prejudice
Treatment Action Campaign, the Lesbian and Gay Equality Project and the Triangle Project are Atlantic grantees. She loved soccer and represented South Africa in our women’s soccer team, Banyana Banyana. On April 28, 2008, Eudy Simelane was raped, stabbed 25 times, robbed and murdered because…
Author: Cape Argus (South Africa)