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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According to News24, South Africa is building local capacity to tackle its share of the massive Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project in the Northern Cape Province. The project aims to build over 3,000 radio telescopes that will enable astronomers to look 12 billion years back in time and examine the infant universe. "What we did in the early stages of the project," Professor Justin Jonas, associate director of Science and Engineering, SKA South Africa said, "was we hired the very best people, and put them in contact with the most experienced people in the world." 
According to ESI-Africa, the European Investment Bank (EIB), Europe's long-term lending institution, has agreed to provide about R546m for the Khi Solar One project. This is the first large concentrated solar power project in sub-Saharan Africa and one of the first private sector renewable energy projects in South Africa. The Khi Solar One project consists of a 200m high tower and more than 4,500 heliostat moving mirrors to reflect light onto the tower. 
The South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) CEO, Manglin Pillay says that spending trillions of rands in infrastructure, including R840bn by the end of next year, is not going to happen any time soon, BDLive reports. The government, he says, simply does not have the capacity. 
Solairedirect Southern Africa has announced the appointment of Warrick Leslie as vice-president of operations. Prior to joining Solairedirect, he was a director of Murray & Roberts Construction, Western Cape. 
