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| © 2019 South Africa - The Good News No images? Click here March 2020 Who is the Africanest of us all?By susanhayden When February draws to a close, even while the weather remains hot, something subtle happens to the quality of the light; a nearly imperceptible softening of summer’s bright glare. You have to have been here a really long time to notice this tiny shift. My husband has only lived in South Africa for 30 years, so many of its nuances remain lost on him. But hidden somewhere in the strands of our DNA lurks a knowledge that’s been passed on for millenia. It has to do with communing with nature; when the survival of our hunter-gatherer forebears depended on a minute reading of the environment. The days might feel like summer, but autumn has descended. March SA Heroes:Building one Community Partnership at a Time – A Success StoryPublic-private partnership launches a regional Maths and Science Academy in rural Limpopo The SA Medical & Education Foundation (SAME) and corporate donors officially opened the Masia Maths and Science Academy (MMSA) in Ha-Masia, Limpopo on the 6th of March 2020. The new Maths and Science Academy will serve thousands of learners in the Vuwani region. The MMSA – hosted at a school in the region – has state-of-the-art learning facilities, including five fully furnished and equipped classrooms, three science labs, and a computer centre. Horror Crash on R103 – A community pulls togetherby Steuart Pennington Media24 reported on Tuesday 18 February “Two people were killed, and 17 others injured when the minibus taxi they were travelling in overturned and burst into flames on the R103 near Rosetta, in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, on Monday afternoon.” Most of the children lost their uniforms and their stationery and school bags, as they desperately attempted to pull their colleagues from the burning wreck. Many were burnt and all were traumatised. Sadly, the driver and one of the children perished. March Blogs:Do You Want to have a Positive Impact on Society?By Justin Foxton It is not easy to succumb to despondency when you are surrounded by positive people. And positive people inhabit rooms that have anything to do with the Partners for Possibility program. These are the people I met last week in the Kwa-Zulu Natal Midlands, when 8 school principals and 8 ordinary leaders from all walks of Midlands life, celebrated the end of their transformative, 1-year Partners for Possibility leadership journey. With Heart |
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