Good News

BULLETIN 13 September 

Good afternoon, here is your Good News:

# BetterBond says there’s a definite sense of optimism in the air ahead of next week’s meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee of the South African Reserve Bank. The national head of sales at BetterBond, Bradd Bendall, says not only has inflation dropped to its lowest rate in three years, but there are signs that the US Federal Reserve will drop its rates this month with SA likely to follow suit:

# The We’re Against Starvation Foundation has set a target to pack three-thousand-600 lunchboxes per month for children in need. Through their Kids’ Lunchbox Project, the foundation seeks to provide essential meals to underserved communities in Krugersdorp. Founder Esmarelda van Zyl highlighted the importance of nourishing children’s minds and bodies. The public may offer support through food donations, lunchbox supplies, or financial contributions.

# Leading youth development agency, Afrika Tikkun, has partnered with Microsoft South Africa to launch the ICT Academy Going Mobile initiative in Olievenhoutbosch, Tshwane. This initiative will provide young people who are unemployed with valuable information and communication technology skills, allowing them to pursue long-term jobs in the technology industry. Microsoft says through the partnership with Afrika Tikkun, it aims to create tangible benefits for local communities, ensuring the transformative power of technology reaches those in need.

# The University of Pretoria says it is leading the charge in taking traditional teaching and learning methods to new heights. This is through an innovative book of statistics-based fictional fables written by undergraduate statistics students. The book is titled, Fiction and Fable: Tales of Time-Series. The university’s professor Johan Ferreira, who spearheaded the book, says what started as an attempt to keep third-year statistics students engaged during the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a short story anthology:

# And finally: A four-person crew on a private mission aboard a SpaceX capsule completed the world’s first commercial spacewalk yesterday. Billionaire tech CEO Jared Isaacman and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis became the first non-professional crew to perform a spacewalk. Crewmates Scott Poteet and Anna Menon stayed inside the capsule. The Polaris Dawn crew will spend another couple of days in orbit checking off remaining mission goals, this includes working through the rest of their list of nearly 40 experiments.

Stay tuned for more news………….