Gun Free South Africa is looking for a Western Cape Regional Organiser who has a passion for peace and against violence; who does not own
a gun and is committed to remaining gun free at home and at work.

The Electoral Institute of Southern Africa (EISA) is an internationally recognised centre for policy, research, training and information dissemination on elections and democracy in SADC countries. It is looking for a Research Director.

Tourism Buffalo City (TBC) has been given R2,5 million by USAid to develop a tourism strategy. This was announced at the tourism Indaba held in Durban last weekend.

Eskom donated a computer with Internet access to a 18-year-old Breidbach girl who was diagnosed with the incurable disease, Friedriechs atoxia, -- thanks to the Reach For A Dream Foundation's efforts.

Imbono Yethu Project has received R140 000 from the Uthingo Trust, a voluntary social investment fund established by the operator of SA's National Lottery, Uthingo Management.

The Congress of South African Trade Unions deplores the fact that 40 percent of the new phone lines that Telkom has delivered over the last four years have been subsequently disconnected. This news confirms our worst fears about the effects of the privatisation process.

UNOPS-SEHD is seeking expressions of interest from qualified candidates as
senior managers to lead the promotion and development of four Local Economic Development Agencies in different districts of Mpumalanga, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape and Limpopo.

In the past few weeks the National Intelligence Agent (NIA) in South Africa raised an outcry among journalists after it demanded intimate details about their private lives.

A research study on the needs of children with disabilities in South Africa is being conducted by Samaita Associates on behalf of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund. Organisations that have programmes or projects that benefit disabled children are invited to participate in the study. The deadline for submissions is 17 May 2002.

South Africa moved Thursday to weed out what the Environment and Tourism Minister has dubbed the country's "national flower," the ubiquitous eyesore better known as the plastic shopping bag. The minister, Valli Moosa, told reporters the plastics industry had been given 12 months to phase out the thin, plastic shopping bags handed out free in stores and replace them with thicker ones.

Development Action Group (DAG) is a leading urban development NGO in the Western Cape that supports and implements community housing and development projects and processes, and that works towards the creation of an enabling, community sensitive policy environment. It is looking for a Receptionist.

PAD is an independent body registered as a development Trust in the terms of the Trust Act. PAD is an umbrella coordination organisation of the rural associations representing communities, in particular women of economic active ages and post formal schooling youth. It is looking for a Director.

Umhlaba Development Services is a development consultancy
company providing a range of support services to NGOs, donors, and government departments. It is looking for a Financial Services Consultant.

South African Network of Trauma Service Providers (SANTSEP)has published its guidelines for proposals.

Creative Associates International, Inc., known locally as CREA SA, has been
contracted by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to implement a programme of grants management and technical assistance in support of the USAID Democracy and Governance Program in South Africa. CREA hereby announces the availability of an Annual Program Statement.

The Community Development Resource Association (CDRA) is offering the several five-day courses for organisational, programme and project leaders or managers of development organisations.

NISC's Gender Studies Database Collection has added the Men's Studies Database intended to help complete the spectrum of gender engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Multidisciplinary coverage includes empirical and theoretical scholarship encompassing the issues of men's identity and experience.

In a country long-sickened by the level of sexual violence, a shocking series of child rapes has stunned South Africa and left people grasping for answers.

The value of the Border Community Chest in helping so many deserving organisations throughout its region was illustrated again on Tuesday when the distribution committee decided to make annual grants for 2002-3 of just under R200 000.

South Africa's top companies contributed about R460 000 to an education trust which would help Andrew Babeile and other pupils to further their studies, announced former president Nelson Mandela.