Good News

BULLETIN 13 June

Good afternoon, here is your Good News:

# The City of Cape Town says it has stepped up efforts to find historic beneficiaries of city saleable units, newer subsidies, and old RDP housing who have never received title deeds. A 102-year-old woman from Maitland received her title deed yesterday. Mayoral committee member for Human Settlements, Carl Pophaim, says they are pulling out all stops to track down the 17-thousand beneficiaries of especially very old housing projects that still require their deeds.

# Walter Sisulu University Masters student, Siphosethu Mase, placed third in the South African Bureau of Standards Continental Essay Competition. This year, entrants wrote under the theme: Empowering Consumers through Standardisation to achieve their right to safe quality goods and services. Mase’s award-winning essay tackled pertinent issues in the South African context, including economic challenges, and the failing health and food security industries. Mase, who holds an honours degree in Inclusive Education, hopes to inspire critical thinking.

# Tshwane University of Technology alum and part-time Theatre Arts lecturer, Bongani Masango, is captivating audiences with his performance in the provocative and powerful production, Dark Noon.  The production offers a reinterpretation of America’s colonial expansion, focusing on the guns, violence and exploitation associated with the infamous Wild Wild West. Dark Noon is currently showing at the St Ann’s Warehouse in New York until the seventh of July.

# University of the Witwatersrand PhD student, Pedro Ornelas, has won the prestigious John Kiel Scholarship from the International Society for Optics and Photonics. He is one of 72 students globally who have won the award. The university says Ornelas was awarded the prize based on the potential he has shown in the fields of optics and optical engineering. The 190-thousand-rand scholarship will enable him to further his research in tailoring features of classical structured light and quantum light sources, in ways to make them more robust to environmental disturbances.

# And finally: The City of Cape Town’s Recreation and Parks Department and libraries have put together a winter programme for the school holidays. Various facilities will host a range of indoor and outdoor programmes for children during the holiday break. Mayoral committee member for Community Services and Health, Patricia van der Ross, says the extensive list of activities includes games days, arts and crafts, sports events, a spelling bee, a movie carnival and a chess competition:

Stay tuned for more news………….