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In a well-researched article David Buckham writes “While there is anecdotal evidence that white, skilled people are emigrating, there is no data to support the idea that the rate of emigration is accelerating from the level it has been at for more than 15 years, or that the white population is shrinking as a result of emigration.” Steuart Pennington
I summarise David’s article below:
“There is a growing concern among many South Africans that skilled people are leaving the country in droves, choosing to relocate to nations such as the UK, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
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COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS: ANOTHER GOOD STORY
Abelana Game Reserve
by Steuart Pennington
Last week I wrote about a community partnership between a well-resourced school and a number of under-resourced schools
https://www.sagoodnews.co.za/community-partnerships-a-vital-role/
I said “Community partnerships are important, whether they be between a town and the community which it serves, or a business and the community it draws its labour from, or a privileged school and the under-resourced schools serving the community in its area. We constantly read about South Africa society being divided, being unequal, being marginalized – but we don’t hear of the good stories of ‘connecting’.”
I omitted to mention community partnerships between eco-tourism destinations and their local communities.
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Mpho Mookapele (35), CFO and Acting CEO: Energy and Water SETA, has been announced as the overall winner of the 2019 Top 35-under-35 chartered accountants [CA(SA)] award.
The Top-35-under-35 competition was launched by the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) in 2014 to recognise its young CA(SA) achievers.
It has proven to be a huge success in recognising and promoting young CAs(SA) under the age of 35 who are not just achieving extraordinary results in their professional capacity, but also have a significant impact on society.
There were also five category winners:
- Develop: Léan Boezaart (34), Co-founder: Freedom of Movement
- Influence: Lize Lubbe (32), Principal: Phatisa
- Lead: Rhett Finch (34), CFO: King Price Insurance
- Simplifying Your Success Award: Gideon Botha (35), Senior Financial Manager: Nedbank Group
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By Sharon Wood
South Africans are clearly hungry for good news as a Facebook community, #ImStaying, experiences exponential growth in its membership base. It’s a keen reminder of how important consumer confidence – buoyed by hope for the future – is, in boosting growth prospects. This, combined with good news about the progress being made on youth unemployment initiatives, is the recipe for success South Africa needs right now.
Amid all the doom and gloom that surrounds us globally and locally, a recent trend highlights just how hungry South Africans are for good news about their country amid ongoing horror stories of...
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South Africa is making little headway in its attempts to avert the reading crisis. The country is currently in a #CodeREaD status where eight out of 10 children can’t read and only 14% of South Africans are active readers.
South Africa’s reading crisis has been an ongoing issue and several strategies have been proposed to improve literacy in South Africa.
Some of these include promoting a culture of reading; encouraging parents to read to their children (only 5% of parents in SA read to their children); making books accessible in schools; and improving... ...[read more]
A wors by any other name
The label ‘boerewors’ can only be used on sausages that contain 90% meat (beef, pork or goat are allowed) of which no more than 30% may be fat. It should not contain any offal or mechanically removed meat. (Google ‘mechanically removed meat’ at your own peril).
Source www.Eighty20.co.za (https://bit.ly/2n40b2G)
Violent crime is one of the most complex challenges of the Western Cape. The murder rate in the Western Cape is now 60 for every 100 000 people. The province will be allocating a billion rand a year to the dual approach of fighting crime and preventing violence. On the crime-fighting front, this will fund an additional 3000 law enforcement officers and 150 investigators.
Murder and other violent crime are concentrated in a few specific neighbourhoods. Murders in the suburb of Bonteheuwel, for example, dropped from 44 last year to just 1 this year as a result of such concentrated effort. It has to be recognised that achieving a safe Western Cape will be a process, not an event..
Black Sash
In South Africa in 1955, a group of six women mobilised thousands in protest of human rights violations under the apartheid regime. The group became known as Black Sash, after the black sash that they wore symbolically to “mourn the death of the Constitution”. In the 1990s the group helped to develop South Africa’s new Constitution. (http://bit.ly/2kBPlQE)
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