Why South Africa can be accused of hating its young women
The extent of gender based violence in South Africa is rarely understood. It involves physical and psychological harm, humiliation, mental or sexual harm or suffering, threats of such acts, coercion and other arbitrary deprivations of liberty - and its impact is chilling.
Tackle fatal links between TB, HIV and alcohol
There is a strong link between TB, HIV and alcohol and government needs to respond quickly to the call for more effort to tackle the link according to a group of experts addressing a briefing hosted by the Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication yesterday.
Community Based Monitoring Certification
The Soul City Institute Community Based Monitoring Teams received their training certificates on 10th November 2015.
Miss Rise event at Hammanskraal on Saturday 7th November 2015
The event was held to encourage the Rise members to be confident and to raise awareness in the community about the Rise programme. Through this event they also wanted other girls who are not participating in Rise to join the clubs in the area. Currently there are 8 clubs in Hammanskraal.
Tjakastad in Mpumalanga leading the way in Community based monitoring
On the 2nd November 2015 visited their local clinic to introduce the monitoring team to the local clinic committee and to post their latest Monitoring Chart.
Clinic Committee Training
Clinic Committee Training is a programme that Soul City runs with the Department of Health and is funded by the European Union. The aim basically is to help foster a good relationship between clinics (primary health care facilities) and the local communities that they serve in order to improve service delivery of clinics and community trust on the clinics.
Northwest Province Rise Teenage Pregnancy activity
On the 10th October 2015, Inolofatseng Young Women’s Club, a new club in Brooksby, North West, hosted its first event, which was also their implementation for their Action Plan for their community. The occasion held on a Saturday, was tackling the issue of Teenage Pregnancy among their youth in the community.
Drug Awareness Event in QwaQwa
A Community Sports and Wellness day was organised by the Revolution RYWC in support of Barona Bana Association. The event was held at QwaQwa on Saturday, the 24th October 2015.
South Africans interested in improving their overall health will have a new trusted source through The Good Life Network, a health and development pop-up channel which will air on DStv channel 199 from 1 December 2015 to 31 March 2016.
NorthWest Rise Clubs implementing their Action Plan
On the 10th October 2015, Inolofatseng Young Women’s Club, a new club in Brooksby, North West, hosted its first event, which was also their implementation for their Action Plan for their community. The occasion held on a Saturday, was tackling the issue of Teenage Pregnancy among their youth in the community.
Soul City Institute for Health & Development Communication says the $106billion takeover of SABMiller will give AB Inbev access to even more cheap raw materials, labour and production processes given the discounts that will be made available to a company of this size. The same advantage will accrue to their future attempts to broker deals relating to marketing, sponsorship and manufacturing.
