Good News

BULLETIN 20 November

Good afternoon, here is your Good News:

# University of Witwatersrand lecturer, Shannon Conradie, has been named as the 2024 recipient of the Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer research grant, valued at approximately 2.6-million-rand. Ward’s research uses scenario modelling to understand and predict changes in desert birds’ behaviour as they respond to global temperature change. Ward says by the end of this century, the maximum air temperatures in some desert zones will increase by up to five degrees Celsius, pushing way beyond the upper limits of tolerance of desert birds. 

# Tshwane University of Technology’s Department of Hospitality Management professor, Joseph Roberson, was honoured at TUT’s annual Academic Excellence Awards ceremony. He received the Institutional Lecturer of the Year award and also the Lecturer of the Year award from the Faculty of Management Sciences. TUT says since the start of his journey as a lecturer in August 1991, Roberson has dedicated his efforts and time to helping students realise their potential, and equipping them to navigate the ever-evolving hospitality industry landscape.

# With World Children’s Day being commemorated today, the DO MORE FOUNDATION’s 2024 Impact Report has pointed out some of the organisation’s milestone achievements. The organisation’s Jessica Ronaasen says the foundation has in eight communities across South Africa supported 526 Early Childhood Development centres. The foundation has empowered one-thousand-260 ECD workers to ensure the 20-thousand-929 young children under their care are afforded quality nutrition, early learning and supportive caregivers:

# The popular Mayor’s Craft Market will return to the Cape Town Civic Centre next week. The market offers registered vendors a free opportunity to sell their goods. Over 40 traders will display and sell their goods over the three-day market. Mayoral committee member for Corporate Services, Theresa Uys, says the market’s impact on local livelihoods has been profound since its first run in September 2010:

# And finally: The Bouchardon bust, made by French sculptor Edmé Bouchardon in the early 18th century, could sell for over 578-million-rand through a private sale. The marble bust depicts the late Scottish landowner and politician John Gordon. Around 1930, the Invergordon Town Council in Scotland purchased the bust but misplaced it. In 1998, it was found being used to keep open a shed door in an industrial park. The marble bust has been loaned to the Louvre in Paris and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles in recent years.

Stay tuned for more news………….