Dynamic Heritage Month Festival Presented By Cultivate Celebrates A Diversity Of Natural History, Arts And Culture, Music And Wine
This September will come alive with an impactful programme of heritage events, talks and live performances leading up to South Africa’s National Heritage Day on 24 September 2021. Presented by Cultivate at its newly opened marketplace in Salt River, Cape Town, the festival will run from 8-30 September 2021. The programme will highlight natural history, […]
Well-Known Wildlife Personalities, Dereck & Beverley Joubert Launch Project Ranger
Towards Supporting Frontline African Conservation Workers And Their Communities The massive impact on the tourism and travel industry due to the Covid-19 pandemic left Africa’s wildlife more vulnerable than ever before. African rangers were furloughed, their communities suffered, wildlife crime increased, and the most endangered species faced unprecedented challenges. Great Plains co-founders Dereck and Beverly […]
Meeting The Challenges Of Disruption With Strategic FinOps
The headwinds and economic strain of the past 18 months have left many businesses with little option but to evaluate costs. However, a recent PwC report states that while 52 percent of companies plan to curb or defer investments, only 9 percent will make those cuts in digital transformation. “Clearly, effective processes, combined with strong risk discipline […]
A Cry For Hope From A South African Business Leader
People often ask me why I haven’t left South Africa and sought greener pastures. I am constantly reminded of all the problems we face, and I’m battered by the negativity of people in all spheres of life. My answer is simple: I love this country and I haven’t ever lost hope for its future. I […]
More Than Half Of Young Africans Lost Their Jobs Or Terminated Their Education Due To Coronavirus
– African Youth Survey 2021 New Research Across 15 African Countries and 4,500 Youth Reveals Devastating Impact Of COVID-19, Vaccine Apathy And Fake News As the virally-transmissible ‘Delta’ variant of COVID-19 surges across the African continent, findings from the Ichikowitz Family Foundation’s 2021 African Youth Survey reveal that over half of the continent’s young people […]
Returning Attention to Lesotho’s Musical Tradition
A collaboration led by the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town, aims to return attention to Lesotho’s musical tradition. The collaboration involves filming musicians and exhibiting related artworks. We recorded musicians playing four instruments that are also depicted in clay figurines made by the late Lesotho artist Samuele Makoanyane (1909-1944). […]
Tanzania Receives Relief Fund from IMF
The International Monetary Fund’s executive board has approved $567m in emergency support for Tanzania to help it finance a COVID-19 vaccination campaign and meet the health and social costs of the pandemic, the IMF said in a statement. The IMF board approved on Tuesday a disbursement of $189m to Tanzania under its Rapid Credit Facility […]
DRC Battles Meningitis Outbreak
An epidemic of meningitis has been declared in northeastern DR Congo, where 129 people have died, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. A total of 261 suspected cases have been recorded so far, amounting to a “high case fatality ratio of 50 percent,” the WHO’s Africa branch said in a statement. “Confirmatory tests […]
Sudan’s Gruesome Discoveries
Sudan summoned Ethiopia’s ambassador to Khartoum to inform him that 29 corpses found on the banks of a river abutting Ethiopia were those of Ethiopian citizens from the Tigray ethnic group, Sudan’s Foreign Ministry said. The corpses were identified by Ethiopians residing in the Wad al Hulaywah area of eastern Sudan, it said. The statement […]
A Row Threatening to Derail Somalia’s Election Process
The Somali prime minister, Mohamed Hussein Roble, has fired the head of the country’s intelligence unit over the disappearance of a female spy. Roble accused the spy chief, Fahad Yasin Haji Dahir, a former close ally of the president, of mixing politics and security and ordered him to hand over power within three days. He […]
