The Non Profit Partnership together with the Provincial Parliamentary Programme will be hosting a one-week training course on Financial Sustainability for NGOs and government officials working with these structures in Kwa Zulu Natal. This is a newly established training programme, aimed at the current needs of the sector.

The Access Success Team have been working in the NGO sector, and contractors serving the NGO sector over the last four years. We have designed various project management; research; monitoring and evaluation; administration; project auditing systems; and quoting systems with great success.

CREA South Africa, under a contract to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will in June issue a request for applications to interested South African organizations for the award of cooperative grant agreement for a period of thirteen months to undertake a Community Empowerment Project for the Central Karoo District Municipality. This project forms part of the USAID/DPLG Local Governance Support Program.

The Institute for the Advancement of Journalism is offering a Corporate Feature Writing Course.

The Ceasefire Campaign is inviting applications for a Director and Part-time Administrator.

The Executive Director, Information and Communication Services, at the University of the Western Cape is seeking someone for 4-5 months (with the possibility for renewal if successful) to help with a substantial ICT fund-raising campaign.

University of SA principal Barney Pityana has denied newspaper claims he was squandering Unisa funds, saying the report was part of a racist campaign to discredit him and other black university heads. "It has never been my practice to demand any more than I am entitled to. It is evident there is a campaign underway," he said. Pityana said he and the university have instructed their attorneys to institute immediate action for defamation against the Mail & Guardian newspaper, as well as personally against journalist David Macfarlane.

Divorced women are set to benefit from a new maintenance payment system after the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development has researched a method whereby maintenance money paid to divorced women could become available at automatic teller machines (ATMs) installed at magistrates courts throughout the country.

Womens's empowerment group Wiphold has blamed a lack of domestic economic activity and difficult trading conditions for its disappointing results for the year to February 28. It has reported a drop in net profit to R8m for the year from almost R31m a year earlier.

Seven women teachers at the Little Flower High School in Qumbu, Eastern Cape, appeared in court on charges of common and indecent assault after they allegedly forced a girl pupil to perform a sexual act using a banana.

Research in Information Communications Technology (ICT) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) Centre for Internet Computing is set to take off following the R1, 3 million boost it has received with the launch of the Telkom Centre of Excellence.

The Health Department on Wednesday said it had reached agreement on protocols for the provision of antiretroviral drugs to rape survivors. This follows Health Minister Manto Tshabalala Msimang's announcement on April 17 that rape victims would be provided with anti-Aids drugs at public hospitals as soon as possible.

The Department of Social Development will host a workshop in Pretoria tomorrow, to mark the beginning of the Child Protection Week from 27 May to 2 June.

A high court judge knew about what he took to be an irregular attempt by his own company to win an airports tender - but there is no evidence he tried to stop it. Judge Jerome Ngwenya was a shareholder in Khuselani Security and Risk Management, controversially axed late last year from its R99-million contract to provide security at South Africa's main airports. The company is now subject to a multimillion-rand tax investigation.

A former director in the department of trade and industry has been dismissed after he received a R55000 discount on a luxury vehicle from a company with an interest in the government's controversial arms deal. Vanan Pillay was among the recipients of discounted vehicles from the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), involved in the defence procurement process.

Friends of the Earth International accuses governments of failing to set
social and ecological limits to economic globalisation. Instead of using the Earth Summit to respond to the global concern over deregulation and liberalisation, governments seem hell-bent on rebranding the WTO's free trade agenda as sustainable development.

Controversial German businessman Jurgen Harksen on Thursday unleashed a political storm with a claim that he bankrolled the Democratic Alliance to the tune of more than a million rand. In a morning of dramatic testimony to the Desai Commission, Harksen gave evidence that DA leader Tony Leon was aware of at least one of the donations.

Denouncing what it called increasing U.S. protectionism, South Africa vowed on Tuesday to cooperate with other affected nations to resist Washington's new domestic farm subsidies. "We will fight this out," Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin said. He said South Africa would work with Brazil, Australia, and the 18-nation Cairns group of food exporting countries at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to try to make the United States back off.

A recent survey within a South African gold mining community revealed that 69 percent of local commercial sex workers (CSWs) are HIV-positive. Health education programmes and free condom distribution have not stopped these women from having unprotected sex. Why are conventional HIV prevention programmes failing among CSWs?

When Mercy Makhalemele's husband died of HIV/AIDS seven years ago her home was taken away after the insurance company refused to pay out his life cover. "At the time, I decided not to fight it because I had too many things to deal with," she told PlusNews. As the executive director of a local community organisation, Makhalemele has been working with members to create a burial scheme for people with HIV/AIDS. Through her work, Makhalemele said she has encountered people who have been treated with injustice and a lack of respect, because of their status.