18 May 2012
It seems that older varieties of fruit and veg may be considerably healthier than their modern supermarket equivalents. A pilot study found that an unfashionable dessert apple which dates back to Victorian times had ten times more of a disease-preventing chemical than its newer, shiny-skinned equivalents. A team of scientists from Unilever in England will now undertake [...]
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17 May 2012
VANDERBIJLPARK. – Daar word geglo dat ongeveer een uit elke drie niksvermoedende paartjies met iemand trou wat snork. Om langs ‘n snorker te lê ontneem nie slegs die slaapkamer van stilte nie, maar veroorsaak probleme tussen die eens liefdevolle paartjie. Baie pasgetroudes sien snork as ‘n feit van die lewe, en doen nie stappe om die probleem [...]
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16 May 2012
With winter just around the corner, people need to start thinking about protecting themselves against dangerous influenza strains. A trip to your pharmacy, GP, hospital or clinic for your annual flu shot might just be the smartest thing you can do this season. According to the World Health Organisation, influenza epidemics affect up to 15% of [...]
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15 May 2012
It is possible to significantly reduce the risk of contracting a number of diseases by changing the way we live our lives. Our modern lifestyles have an impact on our health – we’re more stressed, we have easy access to sugars and fats, many of us smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol, and many of us [...]
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14 May 2012
SASOLBURG. – Vaalridge Auto is die trotse borg van Vaal Emergency Care se nuwe BMW 320 diesel. Vaalridge Auto is deel van die Imperial-groep van maatskappye en hierdie is ‘n inisiatief wat gedryf word deur die ‘Imperial I-Pledge’-veldtog wat landwyd van stapel gestuur is. Vaal Emergency Care bedien die nasionale paaie in ons gebied en Vaalridge [...]
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11 May 2012
VANDERBIJLPARK. – Omdat kerk-, jeugleiers, maatskaplike werkers en beraders se werks-lading oorweldigend raak, word meer hande benodig, en daarom gaan ‘n seminaar vir leke-persone oor seksueel afwykende gedrag by die Fakulteit Teologie, NWU Potchefstroomkampus aangebied word. Enigiemand met ‘n belangstelling in die gebied asook die motivering om ‘n gesonde samelewing te skep, is welkom om die [...]
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10 May 2012
VEREENIGING. – When Bill and Gloria Nobile and Alan Pittendrigh, as representatives of the South African Confederation of Seniors Organisations (SACSO), in partnership with Vaalweekblad and Ster newspapers, embarked on a project to organise the Heritage Day Oktoberfest in September 2011, the main objective was in some small measure to assist in the plight of [...]
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09 May 2012
VEREENIGING. – Daar is die naweek tydens die NWU Puk Prestige-reeks agterstewes geskop en name gevat. Die Hoër Tegniese Skool Vereeniging het Saterdag op sy tuisveld, en met hulp van ‘n handvol omliggende skole (Drie Riviere, Vereeniging en Driehoek) en die Isak Steyl-stadion, die halfeindronde van dié reeks met onderskeiding aangebied. Dit is die eerste keer dat [...]
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08 May 2012
VANDERBIJLPARK. – The swimmers of Emmanuel Private School recently made their school and the Vaal Triangle very proud. They earned an outstanding total of 34 medals (eight gold, nine silver and 17 bronze medals) at the South African Christian School Sports Association Swimming Championships in Pretoria. Stean Kotze earned 10 medals, Thea-Marie Kotze seven medals, Daniel Webber [...]
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07 May 2012
MEYERTON. – The Shoprite Class of the Year Competition, one of Shoprite’s many community initiatives, sponsors school fees for hundreds of learners in South Africa each year. One of the Class of 2012 lucky winners in Gauteng is 12-year-old Derrick Pruis, a Grade 6 pupil of Laerskool Dr. Verwoerd in Meyerton. Derrick’s enthusiastic account of his dreams [...]
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04 May 2012
DALESIDE. – Die Department van Onderwys en Siemens het onlangs ‘n vennootskap aangegaan en ondersteuning van opvoeding in 831 laerskole in Gauteng onderneem. In een van die eerste projekte is rekenaars onder die vaandel van opleiding in die primêre-taal en wiskunde-strategie by die Skansdam Primary School aan die skoolhoof oorhandig. Die opheffingsprogram is gebaseer op die opgradering [...]
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03 May 2012
VANDERBIJLPARK. – Noordwes-Universiteit (NWU) se voornemende rekenmeesters laat die syfers mooi klop! Met inagneming van die getal studente en die slaagsyfer van 88%, het die pas afgestudeerde geoktrooieerde rekenmeesterstudente van die NWU in 2012 beter as ooit tevore gevaar in die Deel 1-nasionale kwalifiserende eksamen van die Suid-Afrikaanse Instituut van Geoktrooieerde Rekenmeesters (SAIGR). Dié slaagsyfer was heelwat [...]
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02 May 2012
VEREENGING. – Polokong Children’s Village will host a Ladies Fayre on May 26 with the theme Life, a gift to live. The function will start at 10:00 in the Banquet Hall at Vereeniging’s Civic Centre. It will be an elegant and classy event with a delicious three course meal. Annie Malan, well-known actress and philanthropist, will be the [...]
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30 April 2012
SASOLBURG. – Wat is die eerste ding waaraan jy dink as jy die volgende woorde hoor: Springkastele, boeresport, gesiggies verf en lekkertjies? ‘n Pretdag vir kinders, natuurlik! En dit is wat Helpende Hande van moeders beplan vir 200 kindersorg kinders. Hulle beplan soveel pret as moontlik, maar hulle het die gemeenskap se hulp nodig. Hulle is op soek [...]
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