Afrika Media 360

13/10/2023

https://www.theexamination.org/articles/soda-industry-playbook-on-display-in-south-africa-s-sugar-tax-battle

As taxes aimed at reducing sugary drink consumption have been adopted around the world, health advocates face a familiar playbook from the sweetened-beverage industry.

28/02/2023

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-02-28-northern-cape-floods-uncertainty-hunger-as-waters-rise/

The release of high volumes of water from the Vaal and Bloemhof dams in recent weeks has resulted in floods around the Orange River in the Northern Cape. People in riverside municipalities have become increasingly cut off as bridges and roads are submerged.

15/12/2022

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-12-14-western-cape-womens-shelters-face-permanent-closure-unless-they-receive-financial-aid/

The Western Cape Women’s Shelter Movement), which campaigns for survivors of gender-based violence, has made an urgent call for assistance as 14 of their 26 shelters are in danger of closing due to lack of funding.

29/09/2022

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-09-27-early-childhood-development-centres-in-sa-continue-to-struggle-with-registration-and-access-to-subsidies/

The registration process for early childhood development centres is complex and costly, particularly when it comes to achieving compliance with municipal by-laws. For many centres, it acts as a barrier to accessing the state subsidy for early learning programmes.

27/09/2022

Road re-surfacing in Cape Town suburbs.
Handheld night shots with Nikon Z7ii.

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26/07/2022

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-07-24-ingrid-jonker-prize-winner-jacques-coetzee-on-how-he-wrote-himself-into-blindness-with-poetry-and-music/

Coetzee has been writing poetry and singing since he was a child, spurred on by his mother’s readings to the family of action-driven narrative poems and by his two older sisters’ enthusiasm about reading to him. He has won the 2022 Ingrid Jonker Prize for poetry.

02/06/2022

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-06-01-for-the-kids-khayelitsha-crew-starts-waste-collection-service-in-unrecognised-informal-settlement/

A group known as the Sikhuthaze project is providing voluntary waste removal services within the Level Two informal settlement. In a space that remains excluded from local government budgets and services, the initiative is working to provide a cleaner and safer environment for the community — and ...

12/05/2022

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-05-09-meat-the-pioneers-cape-firm-makes-africas-first-lab-grown-burger-with-a-side-order-of-conscience/

South African company Mzansi Meat has launched Africa’s first cultivated meat burger, renewing the focus on the link between our favourite nosh and climate change, growing populations and zoonotic diseases.