Your lesson for World Cleanup Day – when you recycle your PET bottles, place nothing in the bottle
Our country’s post-consumer recycling rates for beverage bottles are high but they could be higher if South Africans would learn…
Successful Inaugural Plastics Portfolio Committee Meeting Convenes In Cape Town
The Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry took a significant step towards fostering sustainable growth and economic development in the province by hosting the first-ever Plastics Portfolio Committee meeting in Cape Town. The discussions, held under the auspices of the Chamber, brought together key stakeholders from the plastics manufacturing and recycling sectors to address pressing …
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Foster Parents May Qualify for the R1,290 Foster Child Grant
Dear Editor, I run SAGrant (sagrant.co.za), a free resource helping South Africans navigate SASSA grants. Many South Africans raising a foster child do not know the Foster Child Grant exists. It pays R1,290 a month — more than double the R580 Child Support Grant — and it is for children placed in your care by…
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Name of sexual offender?
Dear Editor 653 Years Imprisonment for 119 Counts of Sexual Offences Against Children Why is this person being protected by anonymity? He has been convicted and sentenced, so please release his identity. Regards LA Morton In Response to/From: 653 Years Imprisonment for 119 Counts of Sexual Offences Against Children
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Older Persons Grants Land Today — No Need to Queue at Dawn
Dear Editor, Older Persons grants are paid today, 30 October, under SASSA’s revised November payment schedule — with disability grants on Monday 2 November, children’s grants on Tuesday 3 November, and grants under review on Thursday 5 November. Two things every beneficiary should know. First, grant money does not expire on payment day. It stays…
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Myth: PR success is based totally on chance. Fact: While there’s an element of unpredictability to PR, success is really based on strategy. Another common take on PR is that not much planning goes into it – that PR pros just push press releases or spray their message indiscriminately to the media, hoping for an easy hit. This couldn’t be further from the truth. PR is all about timing and strategy. Most successful PR professionals are news junkies, which is helpful because a huge and essential par of the job is staying up-to-date on current events, trends, and breaking news. If anything relevant to your client is going on in the media, you need to act quickly and approach clients with a plan of action for leveraging the opportunity before someone else beats you to the punch. While it may look like certain articles or announcements get published just because the topic is inherently interesting, PR teams work hard on behalf of their clients to cultivate relationships with reporters and prove that certain stories are relevant and worth printing.
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