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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through Care Malawi has donated K78.75 million to Nkhotakota AIDS Support Organisation (NASO) for implementing a new three-year project known as Community Mobilisation Project.

NASO executive director, Tifa Ngoma, points out that the goal of the project, which will be implemented in six traditional authorities in Nkhotakota district, is to facilitate behavioural change that supports positive sustainable change in norms, attitude and individual household practices by December 2016.

The National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) says it will set aside R10 million for youth-owned co-operatives during July 2013.
 
NYDA chairperson, Yershen Pillay, points out that the agency will use International Youth Co-operative Month to provide information about the initiative.
 
"We can do so much for poverty alleviation, job creation, and social integration if we focus on growing our co-operatives economy and encouraging [the youth] to establish co-operatives," he adds.
 

The Free State Department of Health is calling on interested nonprofit organisations to respond to a call for proposals to deliver Medical Male Circumcision (MMC) services to the following districts; Xhariep, Fezile Dabi, Mangaung Metro, Lejweleputswa and Thabo Mofutsanyana.

The Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (OUTA) have R880 000 left to raise by 21 June 2013 to avoid a potential collapse of their upcoming Supreme Court of Appeal case against e-tolls.

OUTA announced this week that if it does not raise R1 million in the next three weeks for its legal team, the case might not go ahead.

Meanwhile, OUTA chairperson, Wayne Duveage, says that the organisation has only managed to raise R120 000 since the announcement, adding that, “I hear that there is another potential R100 000 that may be injected as a once off.”

Regional mediators have postponed a special Southern African Development Community summit to assess Zimbabwe's readiness for general elections.

Spokesperson for the Department of International Relations and Cooperation, Clayson Monyela, points out that the summit, which was scheduled to take place on 9 June 2013, has been postponed to a later stage.

The summit would have provided an opportunity for the SADC leaders to discuss a range of issues including the cash-strapped Zimbabwean government's efforts to raise the US$132 million election budget.