Good News

BULLETIN 25 June 

Good afternoon, here is your Good News:

# The University of Fort Hare in partnership with the North-West University, will host a colloquium in honour of the late Justice Yvonne Mokgoro. This is in recognition of her profound impact on South Africa’s legal landscape and commitment to justice. Themed, An Academic and a Judge: Essays in Honour of Mokgoro, the gathering is scheduled for October this year, at the North-West University’s Mahikeng campus. A call for papers has been issued for this colloquium, aimed at celebrating the legacy of this legal expert.

# The University of the Western Cape says professor Roy Maartens’ stature as an internationally recognised leading researcher in astrophysics was reaffirmed when he received an A1 rating from the National Research Foundation. He has been championing the university involvement in the Square Kilometre Array or SKA project since 2011. Maartens has been awarded the NRF A-rating for his research in cosmology. His work focuses on extracting information from the distribution of millions of galaxies, which contain a ‘fossil’ record from the very early universe, as well as the imprints at later times of dark energy and dark matter.

# A night school for underprivileged adults is set to open in Lavender Hill next term. Started by Yumna Alexander, Hopeful Leaders Night School aims to help parents who could not complete their matric due to socio-economic issues. The initiative, launched in 2020, has expanded to six schools across Cape Town. Subjects include math literacy, English, and geography. The school has over one-thousand-200 students enrolled for 2024.

# Rand Water has successfully completed the maintenance of the F5 Pipeline in Mogale City nine hours ahead of schedule. This project, which is part of a month-long maintenance plan across Gauteng, connected the F16 pipeline to the new F5 pipeline. The next phase has begun at Eikenhof, Zwartkopjes, and Mapleton systems, including sedimentation tank cleaning and valve replacements. Meanwhile, maintenance at the Palmiet system will start on Friday.

# And finally: China has become the first country to successfully bring back samples from the far side of the Moon, where missions are more complex because of its mountainous terrain. SkyNews reports China’s lunar probe has returned to Earth, touching down in the northern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia. The re-entry capsule of the Chang’e probe landed at about 7 am South African time and carried lunar soil collected earlier in the month.

Stay tuned for more news………….