The Northern Cape, Provincial Information Society Strategy Programme in the Republic of South Africa (INSPIRE) is nearing the completion of its work to develop an Information Society Strategy for the Province. Since 2008, with technical assistance from the Government of Finland, a re-iterative developmental approach, supplemented with a foresight methodology, has resulted in the first
The Office of the Premier Northern Cape is very pleased to announce a very significant milestone in its history. For the first time the Department has received a Clean Audit outcome in that it received an Unqualified report with no matters for emphasis. This is a vast improvement from the 2008/2009 financial year in that
South Africa’s Human Rights Day, 21 March, is synonymous with an innocuous but historic township, Sharpeville. On 21 March 1960 at least 180 black people were injured and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on approximately 300 demonstrators, who were protesting against the pass laws, at the township of Sharpeville, near Vereeniging in