In a ground-breaking move, the man accused of Marike de Klerk's murder and rape is to get R30 000 from the Foundation for Human Rights, funded by the European Union, so he can afford his own DNA expert.
"An important new study into South Africa's non-profit sector investment in the development activities of non-profit organizations is considerable-3, 5 billion annually."
"The non-profit sector is a major economic force in South Africa. It employs more people than the mining sector or the government - and its size and significance are far greater that previously thought."
"The Starfish Charitable Foundation was founded by a group of young South Africans in London, England, in June last year. Starfish aims to raise money for children orphaned or made vulnerable by Aids; to date close on R2 million has been collected through various fundraising events."
With AIDS pummeling sub-Saharan Africa and a famine threatening the lives of millions of people in the southern part of the continent, many development specialists are calling on donors to take the unusual step of cancelling the countries' staggering debt payments of $14.6 billion each year. But some analysts, doubting that will happen, have a more provocative idea: Why don't African countries simply stop paying?
President Yoweri Museveni has said the Government is to urgently construct a fully-fledged special primary and secondary school in Kampala to accommodate about 3,000 former Kony rebel captives, sources say.
Perform the duties of CEO of a small, relatively new NGO. Managing a coexistence center that has been established in Uganda and develop a network of similar centers in Africa and elsewhere. Responsible for all fiscal and administrative management of the organization.
A wave of baby murders are commanding front-page news in the small conservative kingdom of Swaziland. But while editorial writers are denouncing "mother murderers", women's rights groups argue the rising number of abandoned babies are a symptom of gender inequality in this traditional society.
Street children and child sex workers in Zambia's capital Lusaka will soon become familiar with a kerb crawler of a different kind - a mobile clinic equipped especially to treat children for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
In the slums of Botswana's capital Gaborone, high unemployment mixed with alcohol and drug abuse help drive unsafe sex, reflected in shocking rates of HIV and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among the most vulnerable, adolescent girls.
