# Today is International Literacy Day, a day to highlight the critical importance of literacy for creating a more literate, just, peaceful, and sustainable society. This year’s theme is Promoting literacy in the digital era. In 2024, at least 739-million people worldwide still lacked basic literacy skills. At the same time, 4 in 10 children are not reaching minimum proficiency […]
# The University of Johannesburg, in partnership with Absa Business Banking and Qhubeka Charity, recently donated bicycles to 129 Grade 11 learners at Hanyani Secondary School outside Thohoyandou in Limpopo. This bicycle initiative arose out of UJ’s transformative Societal Impact project, of leverages technology to address critical infrastructure needs for residents in under-resourced areas. UJ Vice-Chancellor […]
# Skywatchers in parts of the world, including South Africa, got to see a rare total lunar eclipse, commonly called a Blood Moon, on Sunday evening. This 82-minute spectacle, one of the longest in a decade, occurred when the Earth positioned itself precisely between the moon and the sun, casting its shadow on the moon’s […]
# Fine Wine Fellow het die verkryging van Norman Goodfellows aangekondig. Dit is een van Suid-Afrika se mees gerespekteerde voedsel- en drankverspreiders en kleinhandelaars van goeie wyne en spiritualieë. Goodfellows-woordvoerder, Jeanri-Tine van Zyl, sê verspreider se oorsprong dateer terug na 1976, toe Norman Kramer een van Suid-Afrika se eerste spesialis-drankwinkels geopen het. Hy sê hul […]
# Fine Wine Fellow has announced the acquisition of Norman Goodfellows, one of South Africa’s most respected food and beverage distributors and retailers of fine wines and spirits. NGF CEO Jason McEvoy, says Norman Goodfellows traces its roots back to 1976, when Norman Kramer opened one of South Africa’s first specialist liquor stores. He says their […]
# Die Vrystaatse Departement van Landbou en Landelike Ontwikkeling het bevestig dat nege nuwe gevalle van bek-en-klouseer in die provinsie aangemeld is. Dit bring die totaal van bevestigde gevalle op sewentien te staan. Die departement sê die Vrystaat het vier verskillende uitbrekings in die Moqhaka-, Metsimaholo- en Mafube-plaaslikemunisipaliteite. Die departement sê twee gemeenskaplike weidingsgebiede is […]
# The Free State Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has confirmed that nine new cases of foot-and-mouth disease have been reported in the province. This brings the total of confirmed cases in the province to seventeen. The department says the Free State has four distinct outbreaks across the Moqhaka, Metsimaholo and Mafube Local Municipalities. […]
# As South Africa marks Heritage Month, the University of the Western Cape says the legacy of the late Amy Biehl continues to inspire hope, forgiveness and youth empowerment. Biehl, a Fulbright scholar from the US, was killed in Gugulethu in 1993 during political unrest. The university’s Robert Balfour says Biehl’s parents chose forgiveness and […]
# Die Tafelberg-nasionale park sê daar is talle besoekers wat die volmaan en maansverduistering van vanaand tot Maandagaand by die verskillende uitkykpunte op die berg sal wil ervaar. SANparke se woordvoerder, Charles Phahlane, sê ‘n maansverduistering is anders as ‘n sonsverduistering, waarna jy nooit direk moet staar nie. Hy sê die sigbaarheid oor die stad […]
