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MINISTER OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT TO VISIT DE DEUR FARMING AREA(VAAL) Print E-mail
Friday, 05 February 2010

In its quest to change people lives, Department of Social Development discovered another destitute community living in abject poverty and squalid conditions. DE DEUR is a farming area situated in the vaal, south of Johannesburg under the Midvaal Municipality. The farming area is so vast that it comprises different plots and compounds that are far apart from each other, with a population of approximately 1 500 people.

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INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME 2010/2011 Print E-mail
Thursday, 04 February 2010

The National Department of Social Development is offering internship positions for the 2010/2011 financial year for a total of 44 qualifying candidates at the department’s Head Office in Pretoria.  Applications are invited from individuals who have completed a three-year National Diploma/Bachelor and Honours’ degree in the study fields listed below. Exception is made for Public Relations Management and Journalism students to be accepted during their third year, because to graduate they are required to do internship in their third year.

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Oration by the Minister of Social Development at the Funeral Service of the Late Jacob Mphafudi Print E-mail
Tuesday, 26 January 2010

Programme Director, The Mphafudi Family and Friends, Our Priests, The community of Hammanskraal, Mokgapa o mogolo o wele! A hero has fallen! We are confronted by a familiar truth which has always been difficult for all sentient beings to accept. In its own nature, the hand of death finds a way to weaken the strongest people, but also to render helpless the most powerful ones. Today, we feel weak and helpless because death has robbed us of a community-builder, a caring member of our society. On this day, we feel a deep sense of loss because a caring heart has ceased to beat.

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