The Weekend View

With approximately 1 out of 3 South Africans suffering from a mental illness during their lifetime, healthcare company Sanofi South Africa has partnered with the National Department of Health, the Foundation for Professional Development and the World Association of Social Psychiatry to upskill health workers to diagnose and manage mental health disorders at primary and secondary levels of care. The partnership aims to address lack of knowledgeable and skilled human resources to provide efficient and empathetic stigma-free services, especially in under-resourced rural areas.

The  Community Schemes Ombud's Service has appealed to unregistered community schemes to abide by the law with immediate effect. All community schemes must be registered with the Community Schemes Ombud Service within thirty days after the incorporation of the community scheme or within 30 days of the coming into effect of the Regulations. A community scheme is defined is any scheme or arrangement were there is shared use of and responsibility for parts of land and buildings, including but not limited to Sectional titles development schemes, share block companies to mention but the few.

The Judicial Service Commission could face possible litigation for the manner in which interviews for the position of Chief Justice were conducted. A concerned  Rhodes University professor  who is from the legal profession wrote to the JSC.  The letter which was read in public toward the end of the interview process will now be expunged from record of the proceedings. The Deputy President of the Supreme Court of Appeal Xola Petse shared the letter after the interview of Acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo last night (Friday). He announced that the letter was received on Friday morning. Tensions also ensued during Zondo's interview. Mercedes Besent reports.

Veteran actor, Patrick Shai has been laid to rest. Scores of friends, family and fans gathered at the Soweto Theatre, south of Johannesburg, on Saturday for his funeral service. Shai died last Saturday at his Soweto home aged 65. His career began in some of the SABC's best dramas such as Yizo Yizo, Soul City, Bophelo ke Semphego and Generations. He was also a gender activist, and a founding member of Free Film Makers of South Africa

The department of Employment and Labour has embarked on a three day mega inspection in the Western Cape that has revealed low compliance levels in the hospitality sector. The Western Cape Province's Inspection and Enforcement Services branch launched the initiative targeting the hospitality sector. The inspections were concentrated in the Metropole area of Cape Town, the coastline, the Cape Winelands, and the Overberg regions. 

The TUT Solar Car has arrived successfully in Namibia. The Tshwane University of Technology's faculty of Engineering has embarked on a 2153 kilometer road trip to Namibia, to test state of the art equipment on their fourth generation solar car, named the Sun Chaser. The bi-annual project is used to assists the institution in grooming work ready students. For more on this we are joined on the line by Lecturer at TUT Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering and TUT Solar Car Project Team Director Dr Christiaan Oosthuizen.

Protea men's head coach... Mark Boucher and his legal representatives have met with the chairperson of his disciplinary hearing, Adv Terry Motau, to thrash out the timetable for the legal proceedings. Cricket SA is seeking Boucher's dismissal, submitted a seven page charge sheet to the Proteas head coach. In it he's been charged with 'gross misconduct,' stemming from the findings of the Social Justice and Nation Building report and specifically he and other national team members calling Paul Adams with derogatory terms as part of a team song. The Proteas team is travelling to New Zealand on Wednesday, ahead of the two match Test series with the World Test Champions

They were first introduced to the South African Police Service as Reserve Police, Wardens and are now Security Officers, but still to be provided with proper training and remuneration. The men and women known as Security Officers at SAPS say they have been battling since 2015 to get a solution to their predicament from the Ministry of Police with no success.

The SABC has dismissed it's head of news Phatiswa Magopeni. She was found guilty late last year of failing to prevent the broadcast, airing and publication of an interdicted story. Magopeni was facing three charges which included failure to discharge her fiduciary duties as well as bringing disrepute to the public broadcaster. The charges related to the airing of an interdicted Special Assignment Programme. Magopeni says she has engaged her lawer and will challenge what she calls a grossly unfair dismissal.

Legendary Actor Patrick Shai is an example of a person who displayed that human beings are not perfect but can be transformed. These are the sentiments of the South African Federation of Trade Union General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi. Shai has also been described as an extraordinary human being by National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and NCOP Chairperson Amos Masondo. The African Transformation Movement and COPE have also paid tribute to Shai who passed away yesterday (Saturday)