Good News

BULLETIN 6 March 

Good afternoon, here is your Good News:

# Western Cape MEC for Mobility, Ricardo Mackenzie, is meeting young jobseekers from Strandfontein in Cape Town today, who benefitted from the Getting YOU to Work travel voucher. The initiative offers jobseekers free travel to job interviews using Golden Arrow Bus Services. Mackenzie says unemployed jobseekers simply don’t have money for transport, which makes it a significant struggle to look for work and attend interviews. He says the free travel voucher removes this initial barrier, with 12 free trips included in the voucher, helping jobseekers find the work they so desperately need.

# The University of Pretoria was recently presented with an award from the global student-success programme Achieving the Dream, a non-profit leader in championing evidence-based institutional improvement. The university was honoured for being part of Achieving the Dream efforts to enhance student-success work being done, and for promoting equity and student-centred development. The institution’s vice-principal, Loretta Feris, says they are committed to offering an educational experience that encourages critical thinking, and ethical reasoning, and cultivates essential skills for the modern workforce.

# The Stellenbosch University student-led Move4Food campaign is offering help to students who have not yet received their National Student Financial Aid Scheme funding. Students are being offered nonperishable food, and vouchers, providing immediate relief to those struggling as they wait for the delayed Nsfas funding. The campaign’s Candice Egan says Move4Food is about creating a caring community that is cognisant of the needs of its student population.

# The University of KwaZulu-Natal has celebrated the exceptional achievements of students who have inspired greatness. This is through the Spotlight on Greatness: Most Inspiring Student Awards. Finalists in the four categories, academics, sport, clubs and societies, were selected based on nominations received from their peers. One of the recipients is a recently qualified medical doctor, Athingahangwi Ramabulana, who owns Athinga’s Corner, a kitchen offering healthy home-cooked meals.

# And finally: The Eastern Cape government is urging schools to visit the world’s largest floating book fair, Logos Hope, in Gqeberha. The ship’s onboard book fair offers an expanded selection of over five-thousand different titles at affordable prices. Over 36-thousand people visited the book fair the last time it was in the country in 2016. Logos Hope is open to the public at the port of Gqeberha until the 17th of this month. Entrance is ten-rand per adult, aged between 13 to 64, and it is free to adults 65 and older, and to children under 12.

Stay tuned for more news………….