South Africa

March is MSA awareness month

[notice]Great need for research and education on rare Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) condition[/notice] March has been designated MSA awareness month in order to draw attention to this rare, currently incurable neuro- degenerative illness that afflicts about one in 400 000 people. MSA if often mistaken for Parkinson’s Disease and the […]

Nuus van Oos-Kaap sendelinge in Japan

[notice ]Hieride berig is van ‘n spesiale uitgawe van die Oos-Kaapse NG Kerk nuusbrief, Grens-Pos, oor die verskriklike aardbewing, voortgaande na-skokke, die tsunami en ontplooiende kernkragkrisis in Japan. [notice] Deur Danie Mouton Drie gesinne met noue Oos-Kaapse bande werk as sendelinge in Japan. Stephan en Keiko Smithdorff, met hul gesin, […]

Japannese Christene gee Xhosa Bybels aan SA kinders

“Weet julle waar is Japan? Dis baie ver, anderkant die aarde, en van doer ver af kom Miwa,” het die 80-jarige Ouma Nellie Johnson onlangs aan 40 opgewonde gesiggies van Mbekweni  verduidelik terwyl ‘n Japanese besoeker, Miwa Teauche, aan elkeen ‘n kleurvolle Kinderbybel in hul moedertaal, Xhosa, uitgedeel het. Miwa […]

GM withdraws TV ad campaign after complaint

General Motors (GM) Africa has decided to stop flighting two televsion advertisements after the Family Policy Institute (FPI) complained that they were “anti-family”. The “Red Tag Event” adverts were withdrawn following a discussion between GM Marketing Manager Melanie Maddux and FPI president Errol Naidoo this afternoon, GM Communications Manager Denise […]