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Zazida Institute of Entrepreneurship: Volunteer Mathematics Teacher/Tutor

Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 11:09

Opportunity closing date: Sunday, December 25, 2011 Zazida Institute of Entrepreneurship (Zazida) is a new and innovative low-cost, self-sustaining, inductive learning and values based post-secondary Institute of entrepreneurship, aimed at unemployed youth in South Africa. Mathematics teachers and tutors are a critical component in development of entrepreneurs in South...

Zazida Institute of Entrepreneurship: Volunteer Marketer and Fundraiser

Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 11:06

Closing date: Sunday, December 25, 2011 Zazida Institute of Entrepreneurship (Zazida) is a new and innovative low-cost, self-sustaining, inductive learning and values based post-secondary Institute of entrepreneurship, aimed at unemployed youth in South Africa. Zazida seeks to recruit a Volunteer Marketer and Fundraiser, based in Sandton, Johannesburg. S/he is expected to be enthusiastic...

Sex Videos Shock For SA

Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 10:50

Extensive and explicit cellphone video footage featuring ordinary South Africans engaging in sexual activities is being distributed on a newly established local website. The site features explicit videos of child pornography, rape, indecent displays of naked people and people having sex in public. The three-month-old illicit site, goboza.wen.ru, also features the Jules High School sex video...

Classrooms: The New 'Killing Fields'

Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 10:33

The phrase "killing fields" evokes gory images of wanton mass murders. North of the Limpopo River it could refer to Rwanda, once scene of a mindless ethnic genocide that almost wiped out the country's entire population in the 1990s. In the Middle East it could be the disputed territories where Palestinians are, at the slightest provocation, being killed and maimed by Israeli...

Cyber Police Launch Probe Into Sex Website

Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 10:27

Police are looking into allegations that an illegal local sex website was circulating footage of child pornography and rape. This follows a Sowetan exposé of the notorious website that is distributing cellphone video footages of local South Africans engaging in sex. Disturbing footages included that of the Jules High School sex video in which three pupils between the ages of 15 and 16...

Rights Group Urges Yemen To Ban Child Marriage

Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 11:47

Human Rights Watch urged Yemen's government of Thursday to ban marriages of girls under the age of 18, warning it deprives child brides - often forced to wed much older men - of education and harms their health. The New York-based group said the political paralysis born of 10 months of protests aimed at ousting President Ali Abdullah Saleh had drawn attention away from the phenomenon of...

600 Arrested In Child Trafficking Bust

Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 11:21

Child abductions and trafficking are rife in China, despite repeated police crackdowns -- a problem that many experts blame on the nation's strict "one-child" policy and lax regulations on adoption. The public security ministry said in a statement that police in the southwestern province of Sichuan had chanced on clues that a child trafficking gang was operating there when dealing...

Graduates

Monday, November 28, 2011 - 11:20

Leading publishing company seeks university graduates with degrees in politics, or with extensive knowledge of regional politics/business, to act as advertising sales executives in publications targeted at the government, political and business environments. Requirements - Outstanding communication skills - Thorough understanding of regional politics and/or corporate affairs - Work...

Reaching a Generation Children Ministry: Administrative Assistant

Friday, November 25, 2011 - 14:41

Closing date: Wednesday, 30 November 2011 Reaching a Generation Children Ministry is a nonprofit organisation that strives to create a movement in South Africa by which the lives of children, youth and families are touched with a message of hope. Reaching a Generation Children Ministry seeks to appoint an Administrative Assistant, based in Midrand, Gauteng. S/he...

South African children face chat room danger

Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - 15:26

A lack of awareness about the dangers of online chat rooms has resulted in an unacceptable threat to South African children. A recent pilot study, entitled The dangers of the South African chat room environment, discovered that it is far too easy for under-age internet users to gain access to a highly sexualised chat room environment. In addition, categorisation of content into age-appropriate...