Maswazi Xalabile
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42 years in the making: Meet the Western Cape’s teacher of the year | News24 (opens the original)
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More than four decades after Zerena Barendilla first dreamed of becoming a teacher while growing up in East London, she has now been named the Western Cape’s top secondary school teacher. She tells Maswazi Xalabile that teaching is her “calling” and “a fire that burns inside me”. After 42 years in the classroom, Zerena Barendilla is living the dream of the young girl she once was. Barendilla has spent the past 23 years at Queen’s Park High School in Cape Town, and this year was named provincial
Four stranded seals saved in unusual rescue from Cape Town dry dock | News24 (opens the original)
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Four Cape fur seals trapped in a Cape Town dry dock over several weeks were safely returned to the ocean – two by net, one by staircase, and one by simply swimming home – in a rescue that tested patience as much as skill. In early August, Transnet Dock Master Johan Coetzee spotted seals splashing about in the flooded Sturrock Dry Dock, gorging themselves on a large shoal of mullet. He alerted the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation’s Marine Wildlife Management Programme (MWMP) team. Dry docks are haz
Table Mountain makes its way onto French coins as world’s oldest mint salutes Cape Flora | News24 (opens the original)
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France’s Monnaie de Paris has struck a 2026 collectable coin series honouring Table Mountain and the Cape Floral Region, giving South Africa’s smallest but richest floral kingdom an international platform. The Cape Floral Region on Africa’s southern tip is the smallest of the world’s six recognised floral kingdoms – but when it comes to plant diversity, it punches spectacularly above its weight. Around 9 000 plant species occur in the region, and approximately 69% of those are endemic, meaning t
From student digs to PSG buyout: How ButtaNutt was built | News24 (opens the original)
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In his second year of studying mechanical engineering at Stellenbosch University, Antoine van Heerden started a health food brand that would go on to be sold in 1 500 stores around the country. So popular became his ButtaNutt range of nut spreads and plant-based milk alternatives that investment giant PSG bought a majority stake in the business last year. Inspired by an entrepreneurial friend who made money from vending machines on campus, Van Heerden decided to start his own venture in 2012, us
How doing homework secured 75-year Jockey licence for SA company | News24 (opens the original)
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Local production not only cuts the cost of import tariffs, it also means Jockey SA can take small orders of the exact stock local retailers require. For the past 75 years, that has been the recipe for the success of the local Jockey brand, which Durban-based Ninian & Lester produces under license from the American holding company. Speaking on this week’s Bruce Whitfield’s Business Week podcast, Jockey SA general manager Bruce McMurray said they were “very proudly” the oldest Jockey licensee in
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