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SABC s Noxolo Grootboom announces retirementNoxolo Grootboom has announced her retirement after working for the SABC for 37 years. The public broadcaster confirmed the news on its Twitter account.
Marketing Achievement Awards announces Rising Star finalists for 2020/21The Marketing Achievement Awards (MAAs) has announced the finalists for its Rising Star of the Year Award - the best and the brightest under the age of 35 who have consistently demonstrated excellent performance and who have the potential to become outstanding leaders in their profession.
SA Tourism, Netflix SA collaborate to showcase locally-made storiesSouth African Tourism (SA Tourism) and Netflix have agreed to explore joint opportunities that will benefit both organisations to showcase stories made in South Africa.
SABC s Noxolo Grootboom announces retirementNoxolo Grootboom has announced her retirement after working for the SABC for 37 years. The public broadcaster confirmed the news on its Twitter account.
Marketing Achievement Awards announces Rising Star finalists for 2020/21The Marketing Achievement Awards (MAAs) has announced the finalists for its Rising Star of the Year Award - the best and the brightest under the age of 35 who have consistently demonstrated excellent performance and who have the potential to become outstanding leaders in their profession.
SA Tourism, Netflix SA collaborate to showcase locally-made storiesSouth African Tourism (SA Tourism) and Netflix have agreed to explore joint opportunities that will benefit both organisations to showcase stories made in South Africa.
A cleanup campaign is under way at Makana s Kop. Photos: Tim Bull Makana’s Kop gets a Green facelift
Something special is under way on Makhanda’s iconic Makana’s Kop, thanks to cultural heritage enthusiast Sizwe Mda. Where once rubbish lay strewn across the hillside, now white-painted stones have been used to form the words, ‘Peace & Unity’ and border clusters of aloes and other indigenous plants.
Mda has dubbed this the #HeritageResourcesRegeneration CleanUp Campaign. He explained that the campaign aims to clean up the heritage sites on the east side of Makhanda, with the hope of attracting tourists to those areas.
World Aids Day is marked on 1st December every year to raise awareness about the disease. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAids) is the UN entity tasked with fighting HIV infections, discrimination and Aids-related deaths.
Africa Renewal’s Zipporah Musau spoke with the executive director of UNAids, Winnie Byanyima, about the organisation’s priorities and its response to Covid-19 in Africa: Here are the excerpts:
Winnie Byanyima, UNAids executive director (left)
How has the Covid-19 pandemic affected those living with HIV in Africa?
Winnie Byanyima: There is evidence that the Aids-related death toll could double in Sub-Saharan Africa from 2020 to 2021 if HIV services are severely disrupted – this would mean an additional 500,000 Aids-related deaths. But not only that, new infections among children through mother-to-child transmission could increase by even more than 100% in some countries in Africa. We could see the progress made in fighting Aids reversed by