Maxine du Plessis All around the world, 12 May is the day to celebrate the irreplaceable contribution nursing makes to the world’s health and wellbeing and to commemorate the birth of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing. ICN is leading the celebrations which this year had the theme ‘Nurses: A Voice to Lead, Health […]
Michele du Plessis For over a decade, the EWT has been calling for an end to tourist interactions with captive carnivores and, as recently as May 2018, wrote an open letter to then-Minister of Environmental Affairs, Dr Edna Molewa, lobbying for these kinds of facilities to be closed down. “At the time of our writing […]
NewsDesk Three poachers were apprehended by the Phoenix K9 team near Bergvliet on Wednesday, June 5th and handed over to the Sabie SAPS. Captain Swanepoel said that they found the vehicle in the plantation and on closer inspection, saw that there was no-one in the vehicle. “The engine was still warm, so we decided to […]
NewsDesk For the first time in Africa, the #StopTheCrash Partnership hosted live demonstrations of crash avoidance technologies at the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit in Johannesburg. They were supported by the Automobile Association (AA) of South Africa, with a special focus on life-saving technologies. “While vehicles in South Africa meet minimum standards, we again highlight the […]
Frieda Paton The weekend of 24-27 May saw some of the toughest trail running ever when the area around Pilgrim’s Rest, Graskop and Sabie was host to the Mac Mac Ultra trail running event. There were three races – a 100 miler, a 50 miler and a 46 km marathon. The courses covered hills and […]