Good News

BULLETIN 12 March

Good afternoon, here is your Good News:

# The Cape Town International Jazz Festival is set to make a comeback on 3 and 4 May at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, after a four-year hiatus. This year’s festival promises a balanced lineup of both young and seasoned performers, to attract a wide range of audiences with notable names including Zoë Modiga and Mandisi Dyantyis. The festival’s stages, previously named Kippies, Moses Molelekwa, and Rosies, will now be known as Sapphire, Ruby, and Emerald, with the addition of an outdoor stage named Topaz.

# The Tshwane University of Technology’s Faculty of Arts and Design and the East Rand School of the Arts have signed a memorandum of understanding. This aims to enable staff, students and learners from both institutions to engage and transform lives by exploring different paths and opportunities in the creative industries. TUT’s professor Nalini Moodley says they want to empower young, emerging creatives to contribute positively to society.

# A total of 150 unemployed youth from Buffalo City Municipality in the Eastern Cape have been provided with a learnership opportunity to empower, develop and improve their skills. The participants were drawn from all 50 wards in the metro. The initiative is led by the municipality’s Economic Development and Agencies Directorate. Participants will be trained in four different fields of study, namely Generic Management, Occupational Health and Safety, Funeral Services, and End User Computing. They will receive a monthly stipend until the learnership ends in March next year.

# An organisation in Winterveld, Pretoria, has launched a community initiative where locals help clean wetlands in exchange for groceries. The Ya Bana Village for the Children and Winterveld Community Clean-Up Initiative offers residents the chance to earn the initiative’s currency, Ya Bana Village Moola, for every full bag of refuse handed in. The moolas earned can be exchanged for essential food items from Ya Bana Village’s tuck shop. Some of the items available include maize meal, cooking oil, rice and sugar.

# And finally: Ninety-one-year-old Stewart Banner says he is determined to tackle his 17th Cape Town Cycle Tour next year. He suffered a nasty fall at Misty Cliffs at this year’s race on Sunday. However, after Stewart was attended to by medical personnel and a 50-minute delay, he continued and completed the race. His son, Iain, told Cape Talk it was miraculous that his father was able to complete the race all bandaged up.

Stay tuned for more news………….