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| © 2017 South Africa - The Good News Letter to Minister Gigaba“OUR NDP VISION 2030 WILL ONLY HAPPEN IF WE HAVE CLEAR GOALS AND ACCOMPANYING SUCCESS MEASURES WHICH MOST OF US CAN UNDERSTAND….. AND THEN – A ‘DELIVERY’ ROAD MAP” by Steuart Pennington Minister, Sir, in listening to your budget speech I was taken by your reference to Ben Okri’s poem “Poetic Flight” and the challenge of ‘remaking ourselves in order to remake the world around us’ and of ‘sowing what we want to harvest’. My first question to you is, “What will the ‘harvest’ look like?” My second is, “HOW will we get there?” Beautiful News?Beautiful News recently released the short-film of Kagiso Domingos who believes that he can change the world through inventing. He says, “It makes me feel proud to know that my inventions are helping people. To watch his video click here Domingos’ parents couldn’t have been happy when he broke the watch he was given for his birthday. Less so considering he’d already dismantled the television. It wasn’t that Domingos was a destructive child. He was curious. How were people moving inside that box? What moves the hand of a clock? Questions drive the minds of inventors young and old. Domingos was just getting an early start. While childhood was largely about discovering, through a fair amount of breaking, it wasn’t long before he was creating. By Grade 10, Domingos had produced his first original work – a camera-aided dustbin that could automatically go around picking up waste paper. The contraption won him first prize at the school science expo. After matriculating, the next step was to pursue tertiary qualification through Orbit TVET College, but he dropped out after three months because his courses were too theoretical. Mentoring TuckshopsMeet The Mentors of the Blue Ribbon Tuck-shop: Cape Town’s Best Exports Share Their Skills For Good The Mmmm Yum Kidz Tuckshop is a practical vehicle that will teach South African children the fundamentals of business practice. Pupils will learn the basics of business by setting up their own fully stocked pop up tuckshop at their respective school. The road show has finally kicked off and the mentors are ready to get their hands dirty and plant seeds of growth for the youth of Western Cape. Mentors Mishka Patel, TK, Kyeezi, DJ Ready D, Patty Monroe, Blake Williams and Kia Johnson represent a specific school and will each assist the pupils in the 8 week life skills competition. This will culminate in the winning school announcement and prize giving once completed. “In choosing the mentors we really investigated Cape Town’s custodians- as it were- the people who the students can really relate to. The mentors are real people who faced real challenges but made a success of their careers. Blue Ribbon believed their stories would resonate with the kids and also help motivate them throughout, even after the campaign.” says Blue Ribbon’s Marketing Executive Bakeries Noleen Ballard- Tremeer. THIS WEEK'S FAST FACTElection Watch: The ANC has 980 000 members in good standing. These are divided into 3 800 branches (branches with 100-249 members get one delegate to the National Elective Conference) However, in each branch, for every additional 250 members another delegate may be appointed. It is estimated that there will be 4731 delegates attending the NEC. The winning candidate needs to secure 2 800 delegate votes. GOOD DEEDS - CORPORATEMETROPOLITAN’S KICKSTARZ PROGRAMME TEACHES FINANCIAL LITERACY TO LEARNERS & THEIR PARENTS MATHE GROUP RECYCLES ITS 100 000 TRUCK TYRE GOOD DEEDS - |
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