Good News

BULLETIN 29 April 

Good afternoon, here is your Good News:

# South African Airways has resumed its Johannesburg to Perth flights, marking its return across the Indian Ocean post-Covid pandemic. The flights will connect 40-thousand more passengers per year in each direction, between Perth and Johannesburg using Airbus A-3-40-300s. The nine-and-a-half-hour flight will operate three times a week, with flights from Johannesburg departing Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. Flights from Perth will take off on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.

# The Gautrain Management Agency CEO, Tshepo Kgobe, says they will introduce a product specifically catering for people with disabilities as they reaffirm their commitment to further enhance the system to ensure universal accessibility. Gautrain spokesperson Albi Modise says the South African Guide Dogs Association conducts mobility and orientation training on the system for sight-impaired students using canes:

# The City of Cape Town says since the 2019/2020 financial year, 14-thousand-547 unemployed residents have earned an income. This is through short-term job opportunities within the city’s Environment Management Department offered via the Expanded Public Works Programme. The city says its investment in these job opportunities amounts to 32-million-rand. Deputy mayor Eddie Andrews says key focus areas for the EPWP workers include the removal of invasive species from nature reserves and ensuring solid waste is removed from vleis and wetlands.

# Deputy minister of Transport, Lisa Mangcu, will distribute over 360 bicycles to deserving learners in the Intsika Yethu Local and the Enoch Mgijima Municipalities in the Eastern Cape today. She will be joined by the Deputy Minister in the Presidency for the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Nokuzola Gladys Tolashe. This is part of the department’s Shova Kalula bicycle distribution programme. The programme was introduced as a pilot in 2001, to alleviate transport pressure on poor households and has benefited more than 100-thousand deserving learners to date.

# And finally: Award-winning actress Nicole Kidman has been honoured with an American Film Institute Life Achievement Award. The 56-year-old is the first Australian actor to be given the highest honour bestowed by the organisation. Previous winners of the award include Meryl Streep, Julie Andrews, Denzel Washington, Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg. Some of Kidman’s work includes Days Of Thunder, Moulin Rouge, and Big Little Lies. Kidman says it is a privilege to make films:

Stay tuned for more news………….