Good News

BULLETIN 25 March

Good afternoon, here is your Good News:

# Writer Deon Meyer and actress Jana Cilliers are some of the honourees of this year’s Klein Karoo National Arts Festival underway in Oudtshoorn. The festival seeks to recognise artistic contributions across the Afrikaans community, including literature, acting, and visual arts. The DA’s Western Cape Cultural Affairs and Sports spokesperson, Gillion Bosman, says the festival serves as a driving force for economic growth in the region:

# An innovative initiative, My Journey, has been implemented in Ga-Rankuwa and Soshanguve in Gauteng, to offer comprehensive and easily accessible sexual and reproductive health services. The initiative targets the 15-to-24-year-old age group and aids them with knowledge for health and well-being. My Journey was implemented by the Networking HIV and Aids Community of Southern Africa. Programme manager, Colleen Wagner, says it’s important to create a judgment-free zone where young people can take control of their sexual health.

# Three schools in KwaZulu-Natal have benefitted from the Pick n Pay School Club’s plastic recycling initiative. The initiative, in collaboration with Polyco’s Million Plus programme, aims to educate young learners about the importance of plastic recycling. AYS Memorial Primary School, Mahatma Primary School and Parklands Primary recently received recycled plastic lunchboxes, water bottles, caps, and T-shirts. The club provides over 2.6-million learners and over 140-thousand educators across two-thousand-600 schools with recycling educational material, infrastructure and awareness to instil recycling behaviour at a young age.

# KwaZulu-Natal’s Sukuma Lower Primary School won the Mangosuthu University of Technology’s English reading competition. Four Umlazi township schools participated in the competition, with each school being represented by five grade four learners. Learners were judged in the categories for fluency, volume, reading performance, expression, presentation, and skills. The university says the competition was part of its efforts to encourage a culture of reading and contributing to the improvement of education in the community.

# And finally: The City of Cape Town says its aqua aerobics and learn-to-swim programmes are making waves amongst a group of 60 seniors. The programme, which began in January, offers the group a refreshing and rejuvenating approach to fitness and aquatic activities. Mayoral committee member for Community Services and Health, Patricia van der Ross, says one of the participants, 74-year-old Esmé Ross, found the programme revitalising:

Stay tuned for more news………….