Cape Town's iconic Table Mountain will
officially be inaugurated as one of the New7wonders of Nature this December, and the City of Cape Town is going all out to celebrate the occasion! Expect a free concert for the public affair followed by a Table Mountain float joining a procession through the city. A big thanks must be made to SANParks for taking such good care of the South African ecological treasure!
On trend with going green, the SA Post Office plans on
procuring 90 electric scooters by 2015 in order to reduce it's CO
2 emissions. But they're not stopping there... By 2020 it plans on being carbon neutral - now here's a sustainability goal we can all aspire to!
Wouldn't it be awesome if you could volunteer at a NPO you're passionate about,
AND get paid to do it - I bet a lot more people would get to some serious do-gooding if that were the case...
cue the Vodacom Change the World programme. Vodacom will pay you a monthly salary if you dedicate your time, energy and skills to a local NPO for a year. It's as easy as approaching a NPO, gaining their support, agreeing on an action plan and submitting your application.
Finally, gather your friends and family and head down to the
annual AFDA Film Festival student showcase this weekend in Joburg, Cape Town, and Durban. More than 50 films will be screening, produced by the school's third and fourth year students. They're also going online this year, so go forth and interact.
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PRETORIA: The Presidency has noted weekend newspaper reports implying that President Jacob Zuma may have misled the National Assembly when he said he had a mortgage bond on his residence in Nkandla. 
JOHANNESBURG: Statistician General Pali Lehohla on Monday reiterated that the results of Census 2011 are accurate. 
PRETORIA: Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe says institutions such as Parliament, provincial legislatures and councils must play their oversight role to ensure public resources are allocated and used in accordance with policy priorities, and that there is efficient spending and value for money. 
PRETORIA: The Presidency has urged Western Cape Premier Helen Zille to work with her colleagues, the ministers in the relevant portfolios, to discuss the assistance she needs to resolve the strikes by farmworkers in the province. 
PRETORIA: Science and Technology Minister Derek Hanekom has approved the transfer of R798 million to the National Research Foundation (NRF) for human resource development for the next three years. 
JOHANNESBURG: The state will continue to have a stake in the country's economy going into the future, Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba said on Tuesday, 13 November 2012. 
The resignation of the chief executive and two senior managers at South African Airways is not a reflection of what is happening in the parastatal, Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba said on Tuesday (13 November) 
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has obtained a provisional preservation order against some of the South African assets belonging to Johannesburg businessman Dave King and the companies associated with him, including his Sandhurst family home, and several cars, including a Ferrari. 
Pistols, knives and weapon magazine clips were among items passing through South African airports over the past four years, Transport Minister Ben Martins revealed on Wednesday (14 November). 
