The Information Systems Electronics and Telecommunications Technologies' (ISETT) Sector Education and Training Authority (SETA) has made a grant worth R11.7 million available to the Siemens Information and Communications Training Institute in Pretoria.The institute, launched in April, aims to develop highly skilled manpower for the telecoms industry.

Must have expert skills in managing reproductive health and HIV/AIDS programs to work with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) Call to Action Project (CTA). The project allows international health care facilities, non-governmental organizations, and community-based organizations to apply for funds that will help implement programs to prevent MTCT of HIV.

Lead IMC's activities in Angola, while assuring positive implementation, effective coordination, and appropriate support for IMC programs. Oversee project logistics, finance and administrative support and actively prioritize standards for monitoring and evaluation. Graduate degree in Public Health, Public Policy, or related field preferred.

Gately Rotary Club has donated a resource centre costing R86 000 to the community of Kwetyana in Newlands. The resource centre boasts new toilets, a fence, water, and electricity and it will also house a clinic and library.

The European Union has suspended funding for a project geared towards building of schools and clinics for Eastern Cape poor areas. This follows the apparent misappropriation of close to R3 million by several employees.

Teachers have boycotted meetings called to brief invigilators, casting a cloud over national examinations scheduled to begin on Tuesday. They walked out of meetings called by education officials or tried to disrupt them during the fourth week of their strike. Others avoided the sessions altogether.

At least 627 teachers have been fired in Zimbabwe for taking part in an illegal strike, the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) TV News has reported. Hundreds of teachers across the country went on strike last week to press for higher wages.

The International Secretariat of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) has expressed “deep concern” about the fact that copies of a report published by OMCT and Nigerian NGO the Centre for Law Enforcement Education (CLEEN), entitled "Hope betrayed? A Report on Impunity and State-Sponsored Violence in Nigeria," based on the input of some 60 local NGOs, have been seized by the customs office in Lagos.

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has donated $5 million to provide "community support for the care and development" of AIDS orphans in Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa, the Harare Herald/AllAfrica.com reports.

The ruling MPLA party in Angola has slammed a report from Médecins Sans Frontières, a humanitarian non-governmental organisation. MPLA information secretary Noberto dos Santos deplored the attitude of the report and said its authors were "meddling in internal issues of the Angolan State". The report detailed how both the government and UNITA had used civilians as weapons of war.

Teodato Hunguana, a leading parliamentary deputy from Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party, last Wednesday called for a return to the practice of "political and organisational offensives" to deal with corruption.

Civil war created Mozambique's first orphan crisis. A decade on, the country is threatened by a new emergency which is much more devastating and much harder to solve. In 16-years of civil war, 200,000 children were torn from their homes. After the signing of the 1992 General Peace Accord, most of them were reunited with their families or foster parents. Today, HIV/AIDS has already left an estimated 418,000 children orphaned, according to UNAIDS figures.

Thisday (Pty) Ltd has announced it will focus its energies on launching a new national weekly newspaper in South Africa, the company said on Thursday.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a lead role in SC-UK's innovative programme in Angola. Angola is currently undergoing significant change as a result of the recent cease-fire and peace process, and as Deputy Programme Director, you would have a key role to play in developing and implementing SC-UK's response to the changing context. In Angola since 1989, SC-UK's Angola programme currently has an annual budget of approximately £3million and 250 staff.

Handicap International started a programme in 1992 when Somaliland self-proclaimed independence from the South of Somalia. After several years of conflict, the political situation is now steady and allows development of 3 projects and 1 in Djibouti.

An experienced medical coordinator within the NGO sector is required to manage medical activities on our primary health care programme in Maniema. Current project activites focus on improving the quality of basic curative services including limited support to secondary referral level care, intensifying maternal and child health services through the introduction of IMCI and SMI strategies, piloting community based malaria control activities, introducing cost-recovery systems and strengthening the health service management capacity of Bureaux Centraux des Zônes de Santé (BCZS).

The Child Protection Officer leads, manages and supervises the child protection component of Save the Children's Children in Emergencies and Crises Project in Guinea. He/she will provide technical support and leadership to field staff in this area.

Zimbabwe's Minister of Information and Publicity, Professor Jonathan Moyo has called on readers and advertisers to boycott the private owned paper, The Daily News, for allegedly writing falsehoods and "undermining" "national" and "regional interests".

The purpose of the position is to provide strategic leadership and technical support in human resources management (HRM) of World Vision Mozambique (WV-Moz), and to strengthen the management of the human resources services and functions of the office, including the recruitment, hiring, salary administration, and benefits for all expatriate and senior national staff.

A report published by Greenpeace suggests that the US administration is using the famine in southern Africa as a marketing tool to push GM food in the continent. The document details how the offer of GM food aid by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the latest move in a ten-year marketing campaign designed to facilitate the introduction of US-developed GM crops into Africa.