While the Department of Labour is using media and public gatherings to educate communities and ordinary citizen about their rights and how to avoid exploitation by employers, some still don’t know which cases to take to labour and magistrate courts. Public Eye senior reporter Libuseng Nyaka approached the Department of Labour’s cluster manager Velakhe Yona to unpack the role of the Labour Court.

She lives her life with the mantra that “if you can dream it, you can do it,” while attributing all her success and the strength to face any new day to the Lord.

DURBAN – Sharon Ilett has decided to jump out off a plane, not to fulfil any bucket list desire but to raise awareness and funds for rhino conservation in KwaZulu-Natal.

KISUMU — Involving men is increasingly being promoted as a key element in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, and while its benefits are well-documented – in one Kenyan study it reduced the risks of vertical transmission and infant mortality by more than 40 percent compared with no involvement – it can occasionally lead to domestic discord and even violence.

BLOEMFONTEIN – When a child is born so is a mother, so the saying goes and for Gerty Adams it was true. She considers herself a “natural born” mother and claims to have enjoyed all five of her pregnancies despite having had her first child at 17.

South Africa may be on track to achieve five of its eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, but serious problems in health and education, if not attended to soon, may hold the country back from becoming a more prosperous society.

BLOEMFONTEIN – The Free State is unlikely to suffer the effects of spreading panic in the international community following cuts in donor funding for free Antiretroviral (ARVs), analysts have said.

Three friends sit around a table in an expensively furnished room enjoying a drink. “Take a sip, take a sip,” one of the revelers says excitedly and quickly downs the contents of the bottle.

BLOEMFONTEIN-Itumeleng Tshilo (not her real name) was born prematurely – at seven months and three weeks. She was born at home on a farm in Verkekvlei, about 30 kilometres out of Bloemfontein, on the N1 road to Gauteng.

BLOEMFONTEIN – Thabang Putsoa spent three years in jail for rape.