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BULLETIN 1 March 2 pm

Good afternoon, here is your Good News:

# Cape Town non-profit organisation Relate Bracelets has achieved a significant milestone by raising one-million-rand for the Goodbye Malaria campaign. CEO Dalit Shekel highlights this as another step in the fight against the disease, noting malaria’s devastating impact, particularly on African children under five. Shekel underscores the continent’s disproportionate burden, with 95-percent of global malaria cases and 96-percent of related deaths occurring in Africa.

# Cape Town’s longest-running community event, the Wynberg Family Festival, makes a return to Maynardville Park this weekend. The festival has a stellar line-up of local artists, including Jarrad Ricketts, Amy Jones, Mark Haze, Sons of Selassie, Berry Trytsman and DJ Ashton Parenzee, among others. Mayoral committee member for Safety and Security, JP Smith, says there will also be carnival rides and delicious food:

# The University of Cape Town Students’ Representative Council says it will use the one-million-rand donation from the Motsepe Foundation to assist international students. The foundation has donated 30-million-rand to the SRCs of 26 universities in South Africa, to help with student challenges surrounding registration, fees and historical debt. UCT’s spokesperson, Elijah Moholola, says this donation will play a remarkable role in providing access to tertiary education to all:

# The South African Civil Aviation Authority says the goal of pilots undergoing real-life scenario tests at the General Aviation Accident Reduction Seminar in Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape was to prepare them for all eventualities in the air. This is aimed at significantly decreasing accidents in the less regulated general aviation sector within five years. The authority’s Neil de Lange says the programme delves into real-life situations to pinpoint accident causes and enhance decision-making skills:

# And finally: A professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Marcus Byrne, says before mating, some male and female dung beetles work together to move their brood balls to a location unknown to either. Dung beetles are known for collecting piles of dung for various uses. One of these is called a brood ball, where they lay an egg in each ball, after they have buried it. The brood ball is a vehicle that the adult beetles use to get their genes into the next generation.

Stay tuned for more news………….