The Ngqura Container Terminal, operated by Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) records handling one of the biggest vessels in the history of the terminal. The vessel arrived on Sunday 24 February and TPT is loading and off-loading 2 697 Twenty Equivalent Units (TEU). This Gigantic vessel, called MSC Bettina, is a container vessel registered and sailing under the flag of Panama. Its length is 366.07 metres and its maximum draught is 15.6 Metres. Its impressive capacity is 10 000 TEUs with gross tonnage of 151559 and deadweight of 162867. Its last Port of call was Lome and next Port of call is Durban. The…
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There is a promise for some welcome rainfall over the Eastern Cape from Thursday onwards, according to the South African Weather Service (SAWS). “This will be of particular good news for the areas around Grahamstown/Fort Beaufort, Cradock and Patensie who have experienced an exceptionally dry summer,” Client Liaison Officer Garth Sampson said. For the summer months (December to February) both Fort Beaufort and Grahamstown experienced the lowest summer rainfall on record, while in Patensie it was the second lowest on record and in Cradock the 3rd lowest. The details are as follows: Fort Beaufort (period 1997-2019) LOWEST ON RECORD Lowest…
Tickets for Africa’s leading music and bike festival, RevAfrica, are now open and are set to sell out in record time. The eagerly anticipated event will take place at the East London Beachfront & Cricket Grounds from 25 to 28 April 2019. Thousands of people are expected to attend the four-day festival, which brings together the very best in music and motorsport all in one unique setting. You can expect exciting live demos, stunt shows, BMX and Skateboard displays, as well as a killer music line-up featuring some of SA’s biggest bands. This year’s impressive entertainment line-up includes Goodluck, Mi Casa, Freshly Ground, Mango Groove, Holly Rey,…
Scifest Africa, South Africa’s annual National Science Festival, aims to promote the public awareness, understanding and appreciation of science, technology and innovation. Scifest runs from 6-12 March 2019, with the theme: “Discover your element” celebrating the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements as proclaimed by the United Nations. For Scifest 2019, as part of its science engagement activities, the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB) will partner with the Rhodes University Centre for Biological Control (CBC) to host Water World. Water World is the Scifest venue for aquatic related exhibits from aquatic microorganisms and invertebrates through…
Sasol has announced that applications for its corporate bursary programme are now open for the 2020 academic year. High-performing mathematics and science learners currently in Grade 12 are invited to apply for the all-inclusive bursary to study engineering, science and accounting degrees at approved public universities and universities of technology. Sasol’s bursary programme – which has run for more than three decades – covers tuition fees, accommodation, meals, textbooks and pocket money. Recipients receive allowances for study tools such as laptops and calculators. Sasol bursary recipients also have the opportunity to do paid vacation work and to be part of…
The National Arts Festival and Nebula Productions are delighted to announce the screening of the Royal Opera House production of Tchaikovsky’s THE QUEEN OF SPADES. Containing some of the composer’s greatest music, this opera is a study of destructive obsession. Taking place on Friday 1 March at 6pm at Olive Schreiner Hall in the Monument, this screening of the stage production offers audiences the best seats in the house, and includes exclusive, behind-the-scenes footage, interviews and detailed close-ups of performers. The film is approximately three hours long – including a 20-minute interval and will be sung in Russian with English subtitles.…
The Pietermaritzburg Pensioners Forum (PPF) has made a public submission to the Parliamentary Finance Committee 27 February 2019, where they handed over the campaign supported by almost 30 000 people. “The R80 increase on the pension grant announced during the budget speech by Finance Minister, Tito Mboweni last week is very disturbing. It is even less than the R100 increase from 2018,” said executive director of amandla.mobi Koketso Moeti. “It also shows that National Treasury did not listen to the Finance Committee’s recommendations that pensions be substantially increased in the 2019/20 term. “The R80 increase is seen as a terrible…
The Department of Environmental Affairs’ Working on Fire (WOF) programme, to help fight veld and forestry fires in the Eastern Cape, is committed to carrying out the government’s mandate of providing job opportunities for unemployed youth in disadvantaged communities. This month the Eastern Cape province has recruited more than 40 young men and women in eight Working on Fire teams. Five people were recruited in Cata base, five in Hogsback base, four in Tsomo base, five in Elliot base, five in Joe Gqabi, eight in Addo, four in Baviaanskloof and six in Kromsriver. Each candidate had to go through fitness…
From 40 tons of waste to none Sun International has become the first company in Africa to receive a prestigious Green Building Council of South Africa’s (GBCSA) Net Zero Waste rating for an ambitious recycling effort at its Wild Coast Sun property. The award is the first of its kind in the country, and although the Wild Coast Sun was already sending zero waste to landfill by the end of 2016, the verification process required one full year’s data before it could be certified. The GBCSA completed the criteria process at the end of 2017, after which an external audit…
This year the Rhodes University Maths Experience (RUME) welcomed 22 schools and a total of 360 learners from in and around Makhanda (Grahamstown), with schools from Port Alfred and Port Elizabeth joining as well. RUME is an annual event that hosts learners from grade 7-12, both public and private schools. “Generally learners have a perception that Maths is difficult. This perception comes from elders and teachers who advise them against it. So, over the years, we are teaching the learners with new strategies to show them that it’s not really that difficult,” said Mandlakayise Sineka, Samuel Ntsiko Primary School, grade…