| © 2018 South Africa - The Good News No Images? Click here by Derek Carstens Our Story Once upon a time there was a country on the southern tip of Africa, where it’s people called themselves Proudly South African. Against all odds they had silenced the nay-sayers and peacefully ushered in democracy for all.Their nuclear arsenal had been voluntarily disarmed,Their rugby team had won the World Cup and the soccer team the African Cup of Nations.Grief and forgiveness happened at the Truth and Reconciliation CommissionBig Business had shed 25% of their equity to create a Black middle class.And the Founding Father of the Nation voluntarily handed over power after but one term in office.
...[read more] Programming and finance still top South Africa’s rarest skills by Jesse Green on 25 June 2018 Research by online job aggregator Adzuna on over 140,000 job listings and 1,250,000 job seeker searches puts technology and finance skills increasingly at the top of the rare skills pile. ...[read more] FOOD FORWARD – A SECOND HARVEST INITIATIVE 50% of edible agricultural production is wasted due to specification requirements, cold-chain and processing inadequacies as well as access to markets.
This nutritious food goes to waste while 14 million South Africans go hungry every day. FoodForward SA is launching Second Harvest, a programme that sources and collects surplus fruit and vegetables from commercial farmers across South Africa and redistributes this fresh produce to the 600 beneficiary organisations in their network.
...[read more] FNB partners with I AM AN ENTREPRENEUR How to invest in shares? THIS WEEK'S FAST FACT Pass barrier For the first time, the Department of Basic Education has published a full breakdown on subject pass levels in its 2017 School Subject Report.
While there are some specific pass conditions for subjects such as Home Language, First Additional Language and Mathematics, at South Africa’s current ‘elementary pass’ barrier of 30%, the 2017 matric class passed with a rate of 75.1%. If the pass barrier was 40%, the pass rate would drop to around 54%, and If the pass barrier was 50%, the pass rate would drop to around 33%. If South Africa had to meet the 60% pass barrier seen in some other countries, only 16% of matrics would have made the cut. (http://bit.ly/2tsG4ul) Source www.Eighty20.co.za ‘Miracle Man’ hands Comrades Marathon medal to eminent trauma surgeon Can Do!
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