The Certificate in Managing NGO Resource Centres will provide participants with the opportunity to gain or improve skills in managing information, as well as to analyse the dynamics of indigenous knowledge, appropriate media, information sharing and networking. During the program participants will develop an action plan for their resource centre's contribution to the community-based development, information and education strategies of their organization.

The business community has announced that it will inject R50 million into the LoveLife HIV/Aids prevention project.
Former presidents Nelson Mandela of South Africa and Bill Clinton of the United States attended a ceremony yesterday to celebrate the partnership between the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the Kaiser Family Foundation in support of the loveLife initiative.

The "Mail & Guardian" newspaper has scored an important victory in a R3 million (approx. US$288,000) defamation suit filed by South Africa Housing Minister Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele against the newspaper. On 27 September 2002, the court ruled that a cabinet minister should not have the standing to sue for defamation when criticised in relation to the execution of her function as a minister.

The mergers and restructuring of tertiary institutions are geared towards the creation of a docile, unskilled slave mass and an elite of controllers of the working class [the amabhunu amnyama]. Many working class and other poverty-stricken parents are making huge sacrifices to enroll their sons and daughters to tertiary institutions to study in the hope that they will have a better life than what the parents had to endure.