CIVICUS is currently recruiting a Project Administrator for the CSI, to be based at the head office in Johannesburg, South Africa. Reporting to the Project Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing the financial management of the project and providing overall administrative support to the CSI project, including fundraising, grant management, staff recruitment, staff induction, office management etc. S/he will work closely with the CSI Project Manager as well as other members of the CSI team.

Following on coverage of homosexual activists and (mostly negative) responses around the World Social Forum, and prior to a meeting of the Anglican Primates (Archbishops / heads of churches) Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has warned African churches against paying too much attention to the issue of homosexuality while ignoring real problems facing the continent.

The number of people seeking asylum in South Africa continues to grow, with Zimbabweans in the majority. Last year’s statistical reports on refugees and asylum-seekers showed the number of new applicants for refugee status exceeded government’s stepped up efforts to clear the backlog accumulated over previous years, the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said.

Journalists interested in human rights can apply to attend a course on gender equality in September in South Africa. Organized by the Center for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, the course will cover the latest gender developments and their implications for African women. Application deadline is August 3.

South Africa has identified science, technology and innovation as important pillars of backing a competitive economy, Deputy Science and Technology Minister Derek Hanekom said on Tuesday (January 30). Speaking at the South Africa-Chile Intergovernmental seminar in Pretoria, Mr Hanekom said the importance of these aspects was necessitated by the distorted economy inherited in 1994.

Supporters of African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma have hit back at the South African Communist Party's (SACP) Jeremy Cronin for saying they are unprincipled and inconsistent. "Cronin is one of the people who have consciously continued to lie about Zuma and his supporters since the [Zuma's] rape trial," the Friends of Jacob Zuma Trust said.

This review concerns the extent to which gender is integrated into the work of twenty freedom of expression and media development organisations supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). One of the major findings of the review reveals that virtually all organisations reviewed cited gender as an important consideration in media for development and freedom of expression work.

Startling new evidence from a three-year survey shows that HIV is now growing fastest among those who are wealthier and educated. “Our belief that HIV is a disease of the impoverished, the unemployed, the uneducated is actually wrong,” says Professor Carel van Aardt, Director of Research at UNISA’s Bureau of Market Research. “It seems that the most rapid growth at the moment is among the educated, among the employed, among the people with higher incomes, and also the people in high class in society.

Though women are the largest group of entrepreneurs in South Africa, black women still face unequal access to finance. This fact sheet describes some of the barriers they face and identifies actions required by government and financial institutions to ensure that women can access credit and business development services.

Gender Links, the lead agency for the policy arm of the Media Action Plan on HIV/AIDS and Gender coordinated by the Southern African Editor's Forum (SAEF), seeks a dynamic individual to fill the post of HIV/AIDS, Gender and the Media Manager as soon as possible.

Stinging criticism from the world-renowned Reuters news agency, evidence from numerous analysts and a verbal lashing by President Thabo Mbeki himself have failed to penetrate Telkom’s impervious skin and force it to cut its prices. So what impact will come from 200 despondent consumers moaning about the high cost of a phone call?

Pharmaceutical company Novartis is taking the Indian government to court. If the company wins, millions of people across the globe could have their sources of affordable medicines dry up. Novartis was one of the 39 companies that took the South African government to court five years ago, in an effort to overturn the country's medicines act that was designed to bring drug prices down. Now Novartis is up to it again and is targeting India.

South Africa will not contribute troops to an African peacekeeping force in Somalia, but will study other ways to help to stabilise the war-ravaged country, a Defence Ministry spokesman said on Friday. Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota made the decision after reviewing South Africa's overseas peacekeeping commitments in other parts of the continent.

A long-awaited report on good governance in South Africa identifies crime, graft and xenophobia as potential pitfalls for the continent's biggest economy, according to a leaked copy obtained by Reuters. The APRM report, which will be presented to heads of state at an African Union summit in Ethiopia on Sunday, places official corruption among South Africa's biggest problems.

Swamped by tens of thousands of asylum-seekers, the Department of Home Affairs has challenged a landmark high court ruling declaring its pre-screening of refugees in Gauteng since November 2005 to be unlawful. In an unprecedented move in the Johannesburg High Court on December 12, Judge Pierre Rabie appointed a curator ad litem to act on behalf of an entire class of asylum-seekers.

The HIV/AIDS and the Media Project investigates the role and the impact of the news media on the HIV/AIDS pandemic in South Africa. We offer two annual 4-6 month fellowships to working journalists to undertake longer term and in-depth research and writing outside of the newsroom. The writing that results from these fellowships is published in a wide range of media and peer-reviewed journals, posts Journalism.co.za.

Two South Africans are fighting the U.S. plan to put their names on the United Nations Security Council list of suspected terrorists alleged to have ties to al-Qaeda and the Taliban. The United States accuses Junaid Dockrat and Farhad Dockrat of being "financers, recruiters and facilitators of al-Qaeda and the deposed Taliban in Afghanistan".

The finalisation of a joint action-plan for the establishment of a so-called ’Strategic Partnership’ between South Africa and the European Union (EU) - proposed by the EU last year - would be prioritised during Germany’s Presidency of the EU, which runs from January to the end of June.

"Does Microsoft intend to continue to break the law by filing software patents in South Africa?" This was the question Derek Keats of the University of the Western Cape asked Microsoft national technical officer, Potlaki Maine, in an open debate held at Freedom to Innovate South Africa's workshop on software and business method patents last Friday (January 19).

The call for land invasions in Hout Bay by the Congress of South African Trade Union's (Cosatu) Western Cape secretary, Tony Ehrenreich, is irresponsible, illegal and a red flag to investors, Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Tony Leon said on Monday (15 January 2007).