# The City of Ekurhuleni is encouraging budding artists from non-paying public primary schools to enter the Energy-Saving Art Competition. The competition is designed to educate primary learners across the metro about various energy-saving methods, aiming to instil knowledge about energy efficiency, sustainability, and renewable energy. Each participating school is required to design or draw a […]
# The DA in Gauteng is urging the provincial government to investigate the whereabouts of the over 24-million-rand, allocated for the building of the Palm Springs Multi-purpose Centre in Emfuleni. The party recently conducted an oversight inspection of the area designated for the multipurpose centre. The DA’s, Kingsol Chabalala, says not a single brick has […]
# The City of Cape Town says a further 20 informal homes have been connected to the electricity grid in Great Dutch Street, Nyanga. This is a 600-thousad-rand electrification project. Mayoral committee member for Energy, Xanthea Limberg, says the informal settlement electrification projects are not only about connecting homes to the grid, it is about […]
# Twenty-six Tshwane University of Technology female athletes have received bursaries worth more than one-million-rand from the Women in Sport Trust. The bursaries are designed to support female student-athletes who excel academically and in their respective sporting codes. TUT’s Director of Sports, doctor Hajira Mashego, says these young women have demonstrated outstanding dedication on and off the […]
# Tshwane mayor Nasiphi Moya is set to table the 2024/2025 financial year adjustment budget today. The budget will outline revised medium-term expenditure priorities. The mayor’s spokesperson, Zintle Mahlati, says the budget will also reinforce the coalition government’s commitment to building a financially stable metro that is better positioned to deliver essential services to its residents:
# Atlantis Foundries, one of Africa’s largest foundry operations, has unveiled its embedded solar generation project in partnership with Energy Partners in Atlantis, Western Cape. The facility is equipped with more than 20-thousand solar panels and will save over 21-thousand tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually. Energy Partners’ CEO, Manie De Waal, says this project […]
# The ANC Youth League in Gauteng has welcomed the reconfiguration of the party’s provincial executive committee, saying this is an important step in advancing the renewal agenda. The ANC’s intervention in two provinces follows its dismal performance in the last elections, securing only 35-percent of the vote in Gauteng and just 17-percent in KwaZulu-Natal. The league’s spokesperson, […]
# South Africa’s first black woman associate professor in Speech-Language Pathology, Mikateko Ndhambi, has joined the University of Fort Hare’s Department of Natural and Rehabilitative Sciences. Her career highlights include her work with the Health Professions Council of South Africa’s Language and Culture Task Team. Ndhambi says she wants to empower students with knowledge, drive […]
# The National Energy Regulator of South Africa says it has successfully registered 143 generation facilities during the third quarter of the 2024/2025 financial year. These new facilities contribute a total capacity of one-thousand-107-megawatts and represent an investment value of 23-billion-rand. The Western Cape, Gauteng and North West provinces were the leaders in the newly registered […]
