# The Department of Water and Sanitation is calling on South-Africans to support 17-year-old Sikhulile Nkosi as he prepares to represent the country at the Stockholm Junior Water Prize in Sweden later this month. The Grade 11 learner from Sitintile Secondary School in Mbombela, Mpumalanga, won the South-African Youth Water Prize for developing an innovative […]
# Three lions have died from suspected heatstroke at Tokyo’s Tama Zoological Park as Japan endures an intense heatwave. The three lionesses, aged three, 11 and 15, showed signs of severe dehydration and multiple organ failure. Zoo officials say it’s the first heat-related lion deaths in the facility’s 62-year history. Several other lions are receiving […]
# Drie leeus is vermoedelik weens hitteslag by Tokio se Tama Dieretuin dood terwyl Japan ‘n intense hittegolf beleef . Die drie leeuwyfies van drie, 11 en 15 jaar oud, het tekens van ernstige dehidrasie en veelvuldige orgaanversaking getoon. Dieretuinbeamptes sê dit is die eerste hitteverwante leeusterftes in die fasiliteit se 62-jarige geskiedenis. Verskeie ander […]
# CapeNature verwelkom die vonnisoplegging van ‘n Kaapstadse egpaar wat skuldig bevind is aan verskeie wildlewe-oortredings wat die onwettige aanhouding, besit en vervoer van reptiele insluit. Zirkie Bernardus Jansen en Valerie Gayle Simpson-Jansen is elk ‘n boete van 40-duisend-rand opgelê of tot 18 maande gevangenisstraf gevonnis nadat hulle op sewe aanklagte skuldig bevind is. Die […]
# CapeNature welcomes the sentencing of a Cape Town couple convicted of multiple wildlife offences involving the unlawful keeping, possession and transport of reptiles. Zirkie Bernardus Jansen and Valerie Gayle Simpson-Jansen were each fined 40-thousand-rand or sentenced to 18-months’ imprisonment after being convicted on seven charges. The offences involved 95 reptiles, including geckos and ball […]
# South Korea is experiencing a severe heatwave, with temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius. Authorities have issued the highest-level heat warning for parts of the greater Seoul area for the first time. The extreme heat has already caused nearly one-thousand-900 heat-related illnesses and at least 14 deaths. Officials are checking on vulnerable residents, spraying water […]
# Basic Education minister Siviwe Gwarube has congratulated team South Africa who secured a historic fourth-place finish at the inaugural World Spelling Bee Championships in Shanghai, China. Two learners finished among the world’s top ten, while all six team members advanced beyond the competition’s preliminary rounds. Klerksdorp Primary School in North West learner Mbulelo Tolom […]
# Suid-Korea beleef tans ‘n ernstige hittegolf, met temperature van meer as 40 grade Celsius. Owerhede het vir die eerste keer die hoogste vlak hittewaarskuwing vir dele van die groter Seoel-gebied uitgereik. Die buitensporige hitte het reeds byna ‘n duisend hitteverwante siektes en minstens 14 sterftes veroorsaak. Amptenare hou kwesbare inwoners dop, spuit water op […]
# Die minister van Basiese Onderwys, Siviwe Gwarube, het die Suid-Afrikaanse span gelukgewens wat ‘n geskiedkundige vierde plek behaal het op die eerste Wêreld-spelkampioenskap in Sjanghai, China. Twee leerders het onder die wêreld se top-tien geëindig, terwyl al ses spanlede die kompetisie se voorlopige rondes suksesvol voltooi het. ‘n Leerder aan die Laerskool Klerksdorp in […]
