The National Education Health & Allied Workers' Union (Nehawu) has called on President Thabo Mbeki to launch a commission of inquiry into Umgeni Water and put pressure on the water utility to release an internal audit report that allegedly fingers senior board members for corruption.

FXI has expressed shock over the number of books that South Africans are unable to access due to the existing gap between the current legislation and the ban placed on them during apartheid. There are approximately 18,000 titles on a banned book list drawn up by the apartheid government and listed in a 560-page document called "Jacobson". FXI welcomes the announcement by the Film and Publication Board that it will remove Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" from the banned book list. However, FXI believes it is totally unacceptable that in a democratic country, where the constitution protects an individual's right to receive information and express themselves, thousands of books are out of the public's reach because there is a gap in the legislature.

The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and the Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM) call on the Eastern Cape Premier to follow the example of his Kwa-Zulu Natal counterpart and provide the anti-retroviral drug, nevirapine, to HIV-positive pregnant mothers in the province. This joint call is made after careful consideration of the resources available to the Department of Health in the province.

Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) members have returned from Brazil with a consignment of generic triple therapy anti-retroviral drugs for HIV-positive people treated at a Medicines Sans Frontieres (MSF) pilot project in the Western Cape. This is the second shipment of generic Aids drugs produced in Brazil and bought by MSF for use in the Khayelitsha pilot treatment programme where 85 terminally ill people are being treated, MSF's Dr Eric Goemaere said on Tuesday.

The Treatment Action Campaign, a South African HIV/AIDS advocacy group, on Tuesday filed papers with the Pretoria High Court requesting that the court force the government to comply with its earlier ruling to institute a "comprehensive program" to reduce vertical HIV transmission, even while the government appeals that ruling, the Associated Press reports.

Presented by a leading professional, this intensive training programme will provide participants with a state-of-the-art overview of the principles and practice of fundraising in SA today - a must for those new to fundraising or directors, project managers, board members, volunteers and others involved with NPO sustainability.

The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has issued its first call for funding proposals from countries hard hit by the epidemics. Members of the new Board of the Global Fund held their first meeting on Monday and finalised procedures for the disbursing of funds.

SANGONeT, in association with LINK Centre at the University of the Witwatersrand, is offering a certificate course designed to promote computer literacy. This 5-day course is aimed at empowering people with computer skills and an understanding of the Information Society.

The Environmental Justice Networking Forum (EJNF), a national Alliance of 300 non-government organisations, community based organisation and trade unions, is looking for a National Director.

The Environmental Justice Networking Forum (EJNF), a national Alliance of 300 non-government organisations, community based organisation and trade unions, is looking for a WSSD coordinator.

The Environmental Justice Networking Forum (EJNF), a national Alliance of 300 non-government organisations, community based organisation and trade unions, is looking for a WSSD administrator/secretary.

The Environmental Justice Networking Forum (EJNF), a national Alliance of 300 non-government organisations, community based organisation and trade unions, is looking for a media coordinator.

The Environmental Justice Networking Forum (EJNF), a national Alliance of 300 non-government organisations, community based organisation and trade unions, is looking for a media coordinator.

Aid and poverty alleviation agencies are racially biased and are reluctant to fund black-owned development organisations. That was the word from Masakhane Development Trust co-ordinator Vusi Kobese.

Three members of the Treatment Action Campaign, (TAC) have returned to South Africa from Brazil carrying generic drugs manufactured for use in an AIDS treatment program in Khayelitsha. At a press conference, TAC and MSF explained that the drugs carried from Brazil were the second shipment of Brazilian drugs and that as of today more than 50 people are already taking the Brazilian medicines in Khayelitsha.

Teacher unions and associations, the ministry, political parties and trade unions have all reacted strongly to a Medical Research Council (MRC) survey, detailed in a research letter published in the Lancet, a British medical journal, that found a third of all child rapes in South Africa are committed by teachers.

The Anglican archbishop of South Africa, Njongonkulu Ndungane, on Friday called the South African government policy that prevents HIV-positive pregnant women from receiving the antiretroviral nevirapine to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission a "sin," Reuters reports.

Increasing numbers of black parents in poor communities are setting up independent schools staffed by retired white teachers in response to what they see as shortcomings in the state education system.

SA OPINION makers have identified crime and corruption as the two biggest obstacles to doing business in the country.

Plans are well advanced for large holding camps near the Zimbabwe border to accommodate thousands of refugees should the situation in that country deteriorate in the run-up to and aftermath of the March presidential elections, according to the department of home affairs.