Limited funding constrains young farmers:
Limited access to funding and land, including bureaucracy, are among the key challenges facing young people in the agricultural sector.
: SAnews – South African News Priscilla
Employers urged to accommodate staff:
Employers should find a reasonable resolution that accommodates all parties where employees refuse to be vaccinated for medical and constitutional grounds, says Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi.
: SAnews – South African News sihle
SA students hit hard by COVID-19:
Forty-one percent of students were unable to buy their own food after tertiary institutions closed to limit the spread of COVID-19, with 40.1% of youth returning home during the hard lockdown last year.
Less than 1% reported that they had no place to stay.
: SAnews – South African News Gabisile
Public comment on unconventional gas regulations extended:
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) has granted a 60-day extension for the public and sector key stakeholders to comment on the unconventional gas regulations, as published in government notice 406 in Government Gazette 44545 in May 2021.
: SAnews – South African News nosihle
Woman to appear in court for murdering infant:
A 24-year-old woman is expected to appear before the Middelburg Magistrate’s Court today, after she allegedly murdered her three-month-old baby girl.
: SAnews – South African News Onalenna
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Fun Western Cape Fact: The Cape of Good Hope used to be called the Cape of Storms – The waves and storms caused the explorer Bartholomeu Dias to name the peninsula ‘Cape of Storms’ in 1488. Later the Portuguese king changed the name to ‘Cape of Good Hope’ to make clear to other colonial powers that as from this point they were close to the sea route to India.
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