ANC Women's League president Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is appearing before the specialised commercial crimes court to answer to bank fraud allegations.

About 5 000 Capetonians last week marched in protest against the United States-led bombings of Afghanistan to the razor-wire-surrounded American consulate, bearing posters like "Stop the Oppression", "Stop the War" and "No Difference Hitler and Bush".

Following extensive consultation with the public health, medical and scientific community as well as the milling industry and consumer groups, the Department of Health is set to publish draft legislation in the next few months with final legislation planned for very early 2002 regarding the mandatory fortification of wheat flour and maize meal. Fortification is cost effective strategy to address alarming and widespread deficiencies in critical vitamins and minerals throughout the South African population.

Feb 22 2002 - 12 week course. Purpose is to acquaint students with broad approaches to communicating for health promotion, focusing specifically on the role of entertainment education.

The SA Government was the only sub-Saharan African country to be contacted after the first US bombs fell in Afghanistan, but it has remained tightlipped about its view of the US strikes.

US embassy officials have warned that the war in Afghanistan will diminish benefits from new trade links between South Africa and the US.

The National Association of People Living With HIV/AIDS (NAPWA SA), a National NGO (with National Office based in Germiston) that coordinates the resources and needs of people living with HIV/AIDS, has a vacancy for an office administrator.

Provincial police superintendent Miranda Mills said racism in the approximately 11 000-member provincial police force was hampering service delivery.

International sex syndicates are luring pre-pubescent girls into a life of slavery and abuse from impoverished African countries such as Mozambique and Malawi, the international police organisation Interpol has warned.

At least 1,800 of South Africa's 350,000 teachers died of AIDS-related diseases last year, Johannesburg's Afrikaans daily, the 'Beeld', reported on Monday.

The Citizen Base Initiative, a creative resourcing programme, has created the Citizen Base Award - an international competition which provides seed capital to NGOs for innovation in local resource mobilisation. The award aims to support local resource mobilisation as an alternative to international fundraising. This is an international award that has already been hosted in Brazil, Thailand, Bangladesh and India. It is currently running in Argentina. CBI invites South African NGOs to submit a locally focused resource mobilisation strategy.

South African Gender Based Violence and Health Initiative is a partnership of 15 organizations working on gender based violence and health issues. SAGBVHI plans to host an annual conference on gender based violence and health in April 2002. Set to become an annual event, the conference will attempt to raise awareness about intersection between gender based violence and health and to find creative ways of building a violent free society.

The South African Medical Research Council and the South African Aids Vaccine Initiative invite applications for one-year travelling research fellowships in health research.

The Rural Legal Trust is an independent entity located in Braamfontein, Johannesburg. Its core business is to facilitate, monitor and guide action oriented legal teams comprising of practising advocates, attorneys, candidate attorneys and paralegals to support mainly the poor rural and peri-urban based communities. RLT is seeking to engage the services of an independent and self-motivated full time Senior Administrative Secretary/Administrative Secretary for a fixed period of 3 years starting in mid-November or beginning of December 2001.

The Daily Mail & Guardian is looking for an editor. The website to the Mail & Guardian newspaper publishes a range of content, much of it analytical coverage of African and global events.

'The Congress of South African Trade Unions welcomes the resignation of Tony Yengeni as the ANC’s chief whip. We cannot afford to have anyone remain in a position of political leadership who is tainted with corruption, no matter how worthy his past...'

South Africa's Independent Newspapers and loveLife, a national HIV prevention program aimed at youth, on Tuesday announced a five-year partnership to facilitate the groups' fight against the nation's HIV/AIDS epidemic, Xinhua News Agency reports.

A senior official of the African National Congress has been arrested in South Africa on charges that he profited from a controversial multi-billion dollar arms deal in 1999.

The appearance of a pro-Hitler pamphlet at the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) held in Durban was one of many ironies attesting to the continuing strength of raw anti-Semitism. It was published by the Durban-based Islamic Propagation Centre International, now revealed to have received at least US $3 million (about R27 million) from Osama bin Laden.

South Africa's national census which starts next week, will not include questions on HIV/AIDS, as the topic was "too sensitive", Motale Phirwa, National Census Manager of Statistic South Africa, told IRIN on Tuesday.