The Donald Gordon Foundation has given R100-million to Wits University in what is believed to be the largest single donation given by a private individual in South Africa. The money will fund South Africa's first private medical centre to train specialist doctors.

IDT has allocated R20m for upgrading,renovation and replacement of classrooms in KZN.This project was launched in conjuction with provincial department of education and public works.The project will involve 55 schools in total in two designatted areas.

IANSA is a fast growing international network of 340 organisations from 71 countries working to save lives and stop gun violence. IANSA is looking for an experienced person, who will develop a global communications strategy for the Network.

IANSA is a fast growing international network of 340 organisations from 71 countries working to save lives and stop gun violence. IANSA is looking for a strategic and dynamic person to lead a Network of NGOs.

The impact on children of Zimbabwe's mounting political violence was condemned on Monday by a coalition of child rights NGOs.

Documenting political violence and abuses of power in Manicaland Province.

Fears were raised yesterday that Zimbabwe's regime could seek to step up its curbs on the media after it emerged that the Independent's Harare correspondent wrote a misleading story about his treatment by the police. The Media Institute of Southern Africa, a journalists' lobby group, accused Basildon Peta, 30, of "giving grounds" for "further repression" after he filed a detailed account of being held overnight in police cells last week.

AITEC have announced the launch of their 6th West Africa Computing, Communications and Broadcasting Exhibition and Conference from 16-18 May 2002. Under the Theme : ''Developing a knowledg society for West Africa '' this high profile international event is expected to attract key decision makers throughout the region. Now established as Ghana's principal event for the ICT and broadcasting industries and the main source of information for computing, communications and broadcasting professionals from throughout West Africa, the event last year attracted almost 7,000 high quality visitors including government and corporate users, NGO's, educational associations, network broadcasters and home computing consumers.

Comprehensive AIDS education can make pupils aware of the need to protect themselves against infection. It can also bring about gradual changes in the wider social environment, making safer sex more acceptable. But what is the best way to introduce AIDS education to schools with scarce resources and a packed curriculum?

Why do so few people in sub-Saharan Africa use condoms regularly? How can condom promotion campaigns be more effective? Researchers from a collaborative study between institutions in Europe and Africa report on a study in four cities in sub-Saharan Africa.

Violence, gender inequality, and high rates of HIV transmission are three major problems at all levels of South African education. Gender inequalities play out in a variety of different types of violence: girls are raped by boys and boys are the main perpetrators of sexual assault but boys can also be the victims of assault by other boys. Yet, many interventions reflect the perception that boys are perpetrators and girls are the victims. How can the gap between rhetoric and practice in addressing boys' and girls' vulnerability be addressed?

A new report released by the ICFTU has condemned the deplorable situation faced by working people in Malawi and challenged the government to meet its obligations to protect its citizens. Despite having ratified all of the eight ILO conventions on core labour standards, the situation for the hundreds of thousands of child labourers, women and for the majority of workers in general, remains as miserable as ever.

More than 80 million people are living with disabilities in Africa - placing an enormous burden on already overstretched services, a pan African conference has heard.

the Preliminary Report of the 2000 Namibia Demographic and Health Survey has recently been published. The report contains around 40 pages. Chapter 1 provides a brief background, while the methodology is described in Chapter 2. The main findings of the survey are contained in the third chapter, which highlights the most important results at output and outcome level. Chapter 4 provides a summary and concluding remarks. The key results appear condensed in table form in Annex 2. The report may be downloaded from the website of the Namibian Ministry of Health and Social Services.

INDEPTH is dedicated to the identification of critical developing world health and social issues, the coordination of cross-site, longitudinal studies and interventions to address these issues, and the translation of research findings into improved health and social policy and practice. The Executive Director of INDEPTH will contribute leadership to network efforts and is responsible for the ongoing management and development of the INDEPTH network.

The National Council for Research on Women and the Center for the Study of Women and Society at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York has announced a Rockefeller-funded humanities fellowship programme.

Despite dwindling funds from Danish government for Southern Africa, the Danish government has channeled funds to the Permanent Commission for Human Rights in Zambia.This funding will help to effect the repatriation of illegal immigrants languishing in Zambian prisons.

National Development Agency officials are flouting the agency's own funding procedures. This has emerged after 60% of it's total allocated funds went to KwaZulu-Natal between May 2000 and December last year,
the province which happens to the Executive Director's home province.

The Umsobomvu fund, established by government in 1998 to aid job creation and skills transfer to the youth, this week announced a R17-million joint venture with the National School of Accounting to offer bridging courses for post graduate students who want to be chartered accountants in SA.