Port Elizabeth and Nelson Mandela Bay
Another 217 Eastern Cape school principals to receive rapid skills training
In KwaZulu-Natal, schools managed by principals who have undergone the Principals’ Management Development Programme (PMDP) have significantly outperformed “non-trained” schools. Since late 2012, the PMDP was rolled out by the Department of Education (DoE) in the Eastern Cape in partnership with ETDP SETA and has been delivered to 150 of the Eastern Cape’s over 5 000 schools. However, on Friday, 14 June 2013, the Eastern Cape’s Department of Education’s Chief Director: Education Professional Services (EPS), Mr Ncanywa announced Phase 2, where school management training will be provided to another group of 217 school principals and HODs. Four years ago, a 50-school pilot project was launched in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), training and mentoring close to 1 300 school principals through … [Read More...]
Rebrand 100 celebrates birth of the Adventure Province
The repositioning of the Eastern Cape as Adventure Province by Boomtown has been recognised globally as one of the most significant rebrand exercises of a destination by REBRAND 100. Once a year, a fresh panel of international business, marketing and design executives is selected to jury the competition, with the goal of showcasing globally the most effective brand transformations. The Eastern Cape has a lot to offer, to many people, so the challenge was defining a single and unique draw that would stand out above the rest. After hours of: research, focus groups, comparisions, insight generation, uncovering brand perceptions and the development of brand tools, Boomtown crafted a compelling brand that would be a first for the country. Looking at the other eight provinces there was one … [Read More...]
CPI slows to 5.6% in May
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) slowed to 5.6% year-on-year in May, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said on Wednesday. CPI which the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) uses to target inflation had been in the upper range of the 3 to 6 percent range for three consecutive months. “The headline CPI annual inflation rate in May 2013 was 5.6%. This rate was 0.3 of a percentage point lower than the corresponding annual rate of 5.9% in April 2013. On average, prices decreased by 0.3% between April 2013 and May 2013,” said Stats SA. Economists had expected inflation to slow to 5.7% The food and non-alcoholic beverages index was unchanged between April 2013 and May 2013. The annual rate increased to 6.4% in May 2013 from 6.2% in April 2013. The household contents and services index increased … [Read More...]
A Guide to the Protection from Harassment Act
How scary (and fortuitous) is this? I was today threatened over the phone by an irate person - see: You catch more bees with honey than vinegar – and not 10 minutes later this guide by Kathleen Rice, Director, Technology, Media and Telecommunications Practice at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr, landed in my inbox – God works in mysterious ways! The Protection from Harassment Act affords the victims of harassment an effective remedy against harassment. If you are a victim of harassment, you may approach the magistrates’ courts in terms of this Act to obtain a protection order against any person who is harassing you. A person who breaches a protection order may be criminally charged and, if found guilty, held liable to a fine or imprisonment. WHAT IS HARASSMENT ? Harassment is any conduct … [Read More...]
Generations of Jazz Exhibition
The launch of the “Generations of Jazz Exhibition” at the Red Location Museum, on Friday, 21 June 2013 from 19:00 is already fully booked. But, fear not as this vibrant new exhibition at the Red Location Museum entitled “Generations of Jazz” is a permanent one Friday’s opening will feature local jazz artists from the New Brighton community dating back from the 1960s to the present. Sounds from the Yankee Brothers, Black Slave, Big T’s Band, Soul Jazzmen and the Metro Jazz Queens will echo in the Museum on opening night. “Generations of Jazz” has been curated by Prof Diane Thram, Director of the International Library of African Music, a heritage archive and research institute at Rhodes University. It is the outgrowth of the ILAM Red Location Music History Project which has … [Read More...]
South Africa: Jobs, Construction Boom At Coega
Building projects at the Coega Industrial Development Zone outside Port Elizabeth have injected over R1.2-billion into South Africa's Eastern Cape construction industry over the past two quarters, in the process creating over 2 500 jobs, the state-owned Coega Development Corporation (CDC) said last week. Six major construction projects are currently under way in the Coega IDZ, including Chinese auto maker First Automobile Works' new R200-million plant, food service group Famous Brands Famous Brands' new cold storage plant, DCD Group's wind tower manufacturing plant, the addition of Coega Cheese onto the Coega Dairy outfit, Agni Steels' R400-million smelter facility, and Rehau's extension in the Nelson Mandela Bay Logistics Park. Industrial gas company Air Products South Africa is also … [Read More...]
Jobs, construction boom at Coega
19 June 2013 Building projects at the Coega Industrial Development Zone outside Port Elizabeth have injected over R1.2-billion into South Africa's Eastern Cape construction industry over the past two quarters, in the process creating over 2500 jobs, the state-owned Coega Development Corporation (CDC) said last week. Six major construction projects are currently under way in the Coega IDZ, including Chinese auto maker First Automobile Works' new R200-million plant, food service group Famous Brands Famous Brands' new cold storage plant, DCD Group's wind tower manufacturing plant, the addition of Coega Cheese onto the Coega Dairy outfit, Agni Steels' R400-million smelter facility, and Rehau's extension in the Nelson Mandela Bay Logistics Park. Industrial gas company Air Products South … [Read More...]
You catch more bees with honey than vinegar
We at MyPE have been running the MyPE Business Directory for just on 9 years and I always get asked how effective being listed in the directory is. In a nutshell I can state that most listings in the directory get a fair amount of traffic which must be turning into revenue for them as many people keep their listings up to date and actively engage with us to do so. As with most free services we struggle with the perception that something free cannot have real value, we are never thanked for referring clients, but are always criticised in a knee jerk manner when something goes wrong. Of course, we accept that it is human nature to blame someone else when we occasionally receive ‘strident’ messages like the one I received recently (all identifying words removed). The message went like … [Read More...]
You catch more bees with honey than vinegar
We at MyPE have been running the MyPE Business Directory for just on 9 years and I always get asked how effective being listed in the directory is. In a nutshell I can state that most listings in the directory get a fair amount of traffic which must be turning into revenue for them as many people keep their listings up to date and actively engage with us to do so. As with most free services we struggle with the perception that something free cannot have real value, we are never thanked for referring clients, but are always criticised in a knee jerk manner when something goes wrong. Of course, we accept that it is human nature to blame someone else when we occasionally receive ‘strident’ messages like the one I received recently (all identifying words removed). The message went like … [Read More...]
Municipal libraries reopen today
The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has pleasure in announcing that the go-slow experienced in municipal libraries since the beginning of June has ended and that all municipal libraries will open their doors to the public today. Note that no fines will be imposed on library members whose books fell due during the period of the go-slow. The Municipality wishes to apologise for any inconvenience caused. Editor: I am sure that Ramon Thomas will be pleased – sign his petition to keep the libraries open on a Saturday here. … [Read More...]
Municipal libraries reopen today
The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has pleasure in announcing that the go-slow experienced in municipal libraries since the beginning of June has ended and that all municipal libraries will open their doors to the public today. Note that no fines will be imposed on library members whose books fell due during the period of the go-slow. The Municipality wishes to apologise for any inconvenience caused. Editor: I am sure that Ramon Thomas will be pleased – sign his petition to keep the libraries open on a Saturday here. … [Read More...]
Mfanasekhaya Qobose Building (formerly Eric Tindale Building) open for business
The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality wishes to advise that the Mfanasekhaya Gqobose Building (formerly Eric Tindale Building) in Govan Mbeki Avenue is now open for business with residents. This follows the labour unrest that saw staff from the Budget and Treasury Directorate abandoning their workstations last week. The Municipality wishes to apologise to residents for any inconvenience caused. … [Read More...]
Mfanasekhaya Qobose Building (formerly Eric Tindale Building) open for business
The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality wishes to advise that the Mfanasekhaya Gqobose Building (formerly Eric Tindale Building) in Govan Mbeki Avenue is now open for business with residents. This follows the labour unrest that saw staff from the Budget and Treasury Directorate abandoning their workstations last week. The Municipality wishes to apologise to residents for any inconvenience caused. … [Read More...]
Give thanks to your food
How often do you think about your food while you’re eating it? In our modern world, with our tendency to outsource food production, we’ve lost our connection to almost every aspect of the food chain. My feeling is that this is bound to have consequences down the line… In centuries gone by, we would have had a distinct sense of connection to, and (therefore) gratitude for, the food we ate – after all, we would have grown and harvested it, or raised and slaughtered it, ourselves. These days we walk into a supermarket and find either bags or slabs of it on shelves or in fridges (and, in the case of animal fleshes, it’s often not even called by the animal it actually is – cow, pig and sheep being some examples). The importance of energy: All this helps remove us from our connection … [Read More...]
Give thanks to your food
How often do you think about your food while you’re eating it? In our modern world, with our tendency to outsource food production, we’ve lost our connection to almost every aspect of the food chain. My feeling is that this is bound to have consequences down the line… In centuries gone by, we would have had a distinct sense of connection to, and (therefore) gratitude for, the food we ate – after all, we would have grown and harvested it, or raised and slaughtered it, ourselves. These days we walk into a supermarket and find either bags or slabs of it on shelves or in fridges (and, in the case of animal fleshes, it’s often not even called by the animal it actually is – cow, pig and sheep being some examples). The importance of energy: All this helps remove us from our connection … [Read More...]
