Good News

BULLETIN 27 August 2 pm

Good afternoon, here is your Good News:

# The City of Cape Town is now in the running to become one of the One Planet City Challenge’s global winners. This comes after it edged out the City of Tshwane and the eThekwini Municipality to win the national award. The One Planet City Challenge initiative encourages cities worldwide to set ambitious climate targets aligned with the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. The jury commended Cape Town for its emphasis on impactful actions, such as compact urbanisation and the electrification of the transport sector.

# A grade five learner at Laerskool Van Riebeeckstrand set a new record for the youngest swimmer to complete the Robben Island crossing. Ten-year-old Karli Fourie completed the 7.4-kilometre swim from Robben Island to Blouberg Beach alongside veteran swimmer Howard Warrington in three-hours-and-four-minutes. She undertook the swim to raise 50-thousand-rand for a charity supporting foster children in the Western Cape, Home From Home.

# Eastern Cape MEC for Health, Ntandokazi Capa, says the first cancer patients will be treated with a new 60-million-rand Linac accelerator machine at Livingstone Hospital in Nelson Mandela Bay on Thursday. The machine produces high-energy particles or waves in the form of beams that destroy or damage cancer cells. Capa’s spokesperson, Mkhululi Ndamase, says the new machine will go a long way in treating cancer patients in the western region of the province:

# Tshwane University of Technology’s professor Pfunzo Sidogi has won the prestigious Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award in Chicago. This is for his book Mihloti Y Ntsako: Journeys with the Bongi Dhlomo Collection. Sidogi, who is the head of the Department of Fine and Studio Arts, says winning this award validates the importance of his research, where he focuses on the creative legacies of black artists from the 20th century. He adds that winning is substantive evidence that the stories African researchers are writing about are important.

# And finally, Turkey’s Istanbul Airport is the world’s best-connected airport, according to new data from aviation analytics firm Cirium. The airport operates 309 nonstop flights to destinations around the world, most of which are with Turkish Airlines, which serves more countries than any other airline. It is also the seventh busiest airport in the world, with around 90 million passengers a year passing through. Second on Cirium’s list is the Frankfurt Airport in Germany with Paris Charles de Gaulle in third.