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  • A future as a pharmacists’ assistant

    Bobaas beroepe

    Listen what pharmacists’ assistants do

    Article on pharmacists’assistants

    In addition to the shortage of pharmacists, there is also a specific shortage of trained pharmacists’ assistance, which is also classified as a scarce skill.

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  • Entrepreneurs leer, in Afrikaans

    15 Julie 2010

    Solidariteit Helpende Hand se eerste Afrikaanse entrepreneurskonferensie word op 17 Augustus aangebied vir voornemende en huidige entrepreneurs regoor Suid-Afrika.

    Verskeie suksesvolle sakekenners, soos die bekende ekonoom Dawie Roodt, voormalige uitvoerende beampte van ABSA, Steve Booysen, en hoof- uitvoerende beampte van Sanlam, Johan van Zyl, gaan tydens die geleentheid as sprekers optree.
    Die konferensie is ‘n uitvloeisel van Helpende Hand se reddingsdaadkongres wat in Oktober 2009 by die Voortrekkermonument gehou is.

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  • Pharmacists: work and opportunities

    Bobaas Beroepe

    Listen to what pharmacy entails

    Article on Pharmacists

    Pharmacy is one of four professions in the healthcare sector and is regarded as a scarce skill. In spite of the challenges the pharmaceutical industry contended with recently, there is still an urgent and growing need for new medicine, the production and dispensing of medicine and the health services provided by pharmacists.

    The pharmacy is often the first place people go to for advice about health issues and medicine, because not everyone can afford to go to a doctor. Being a pharmacist therefore requires people skills along with the ability to provide professional advice. In short, a pharmacist provides a professional, people-oriented service.

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Media Statements

  • President’s office intervenes, arranges meeting between Sassa and Helping Hand Sassa officials unaware of white poverty

    23 July 2010

    Solidarity Helping hand welcomes the fact that the office of the President took action by arranging a meeting between Helping Hand and the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa). Helping Hand discussed various issues regarding service delivery to impoverished whites during talks with Sassa in Pretoria yesterday.

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  • Deon Maas to make potjiekos in white squatter camp

    20 July 2010

    Reality programme investigates world in which the poor live

    Solidarity Helping Hand hereby invites the media to the filming of a reality programme at the Coronation Park squatter camp in Krugersdorp on, Wednesday, 21 July. The filming will form part of Deon Maas’ music reality programme n Jam Sandwich, which will be broadcast on SABC 2 from September this year.

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  • More than 5 400 say: “Stop the serial rapist!” Father demands justice for his murdered daughter (11)

    “If the police had done their work, my child’s murderer would never have been released,” according to the father of the 11-year-old Marike Jansen who was brutally raped and murdered in September 2005 in Riversdal. Jakobus September, also known as Pepe, was arrested for the rape and murder of Marike in 2005, but was released because of a lack of evidence. Pepe faces another rape charge as well as a charge of attempted murder and robbery. He and his 17-year-old co-accused appeared in the Riversdal Magistrate’s Court on 28 June 2010.

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