Tukani and 14 others bought their 216ha farm, Isidingo, in December 2000. The 15 partners each raised R16 000 in government subsidies. The R240 000 in their pool enabled them to borrow another R230 000 from the Land Bank to buy Isidingo. The R470 000 price included a few implements.Credit also goes to the National Development Agency (NDA), which has funded the association since its inception, and to the Department of Agriculture, which paid the mentors.

The Manguang-University of the Free State Community Partnership Programme is a collaborative effort started 10 years ago by community members, the University of the Free State, the Kellogg Foundation and the Irish government.The programme offers holistic assistance to poor communities, ranging from health and welfare to skills development and training. It also runs baking, farming, sewing, knitting, dairy, indigenous foods and fishing projects and helps about 80 000 people a year.

The National Lotteries Board failed to pitch up for a debate on Social Service Financing organised by the Greater Johannesburg Welfare, Social Service and Development Forum. Speakers attended the debate from the Ministry of Social Development, National Development Agency, and Nedcor. The National Lotteries Board sent a letter/speech, which the attendants refused to read out.

The United States National Institute for Health has injected R 220 million for research on HIV/AIDS to the Universities of Witswatersrand, Cape Town and Stellenbosch for AIDS research. The money will be used to help the development of black researchers and the bulk of the money will be used to conduct research in black townships over five years.

We have come far, but we still have so far to go. That is essentially the message presented by a new report from the United Nations Information and Communications Technologies Task Force regarding African Internet usage. Among other things, the report indicates that more Africans are online than ever before.

CRS/Nigeria established its health programme in September 2001, with its initial efforts focusing on the fight against HIV/AIDS. CRS/Nigeria provides technical and financial assistance to the health and social services of the Catholic Church in order to build their capacity to respond to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. CRS is currently looking for a committed Programme Manager to join their Health team.

Zambian subsistence farmers are reporting successes with conservation farming which advocates new methods of maximising crops in areas with low rainfall and difficult conditions.

Over 400 illegal immigrants, most of them Angolan nationals, appeared before an Immigration Tribunal at Ohangwena in the North last Friday. The tribunal, chaired by Namibian Police Commissioner Sebastian Ndeitunga, granted immigration officials the authority to deport them to their countries of origin.

The Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has said the on-going teachers' strike would only stop when teachers are granted better pay and working conditions. The union said the strike would go "a gear up" this week. Takavafira Zhou, the PTUZ president, said neither the arrests, torture and incarceration of the union's leaders nor the dismissal of some teachers in Harare and Bulawayo would intimidate striking teachers from pressing their "legitimate demands."

Ogen John Kevin Aliro of the banned Ugandan independent daily The Monitor reports on the end of the state's siege of the paper. The paper returned to the streets on October 18, but only at high cost to the paper's freedoms and leaving the threat of jail and enforced dismissal hanging over its journalists.

Leading international non-profit organization with income-generation mission seeks Program Officer to develop and monitor small-scale irrigated horticulture, oilseed production and processing, tree crops, household energy, village water supply, and village electrification activities in West Africa.

The Tanzanian AIDS Society and Tanzanian Commission for AIDS, in collaboration with various stakeholders are organising the 2nd Multisectoral AIDS Conference in order to review the progress being made in responding to the AIDS crisis and deliberate on how the fight against AIDS can be intensified in the future.

A gathering of magistrates and social workers from all the 16 provinces of the Central African Republic (CAR) is examining the draft of a bill that will, if passed by parliament, offer greater protection to child offenders and separate their places of detention from those of adults.

The High Court this week ordered President Moi to immediately release the judicial report into ethnic violence in which hundreds of people died, thousands were displaced and property worth millions of shillings destroyed in the runup to the 1992 and 1997 General Elections.

Reforms and squeeze on education funds has hit education in developing countries as teachers' morale dips to an all time low. Research in Papua New Guinea, Zambia and Malawi highlights a crisis in education because of poor motivation amongst teachers.

The Ministry of Health has officially confirmed 15 cases and 2 deaths of yellow fever in Mbacké and Bambey départements, Diourbel region. Laboratory confirmation was made by the WHO Collaborating Centre at the Institut Pasteur in Dakar. All cases except one have been reported in the city of Touba. The other case was reported in Bambey, 70 km west of Touba.

Half a million children under the age of five die each year in Ethiopia because of illnesses such as malaria and measles, as well as pneumonia, diarrhoea, and malnutrition.

Kara Counselling and Training Trust is a leading NGO in the fight against the pandemic of HIV/AIDS. Its services include free counselling and testing services to the general public, training in psychosocial counselling skills and Home Based Care. The Agency is requesting materials related to it’s services to enhance and improve its resource centre.

James Mlambo,19, is studying telecommunications and electronics engineering in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe. His father is a counsellor working for a local organisation, called Mashambanzou, which assists AIDS orphans in Harare. Last year, his father told him that more and more orphans wanted to have access to email. But that was beyond Mashambanzou's scope of activities. So, James decided to help.

Assist in the establishment of partnership agreements based on the recommendations from the studies. Strengthen the management capacity of the Youth Programme (PNI) at central level. Knowledge and experience with poverty eradication strategies and macroeconomics policies preferably in Africa required.