This World Smile Day, Friday, 04 October, Operation Smile South Africa (OSSA) is celebrating performing over 100 free cleft lip/palate surgeries for children and adults across Southern Africa in 2019. With a team of 120 active medical volunteers in South Africa, and 350 non-medical trainees and healthcare workers, OSSA would have completed three missions this year in Mozambique and Witbank. The global non-profit medical service organisation provides free cleft lip and cleft palate reconstructive surgery
The Honest Truth: The Philippi Horticultural Area, which provides 50% of the city’s fresh produce, is fighting a court battle to conserve its fertile farmlands
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The PHA Food & Farming Campaign works to protect the Philippi Horticultural Area for the benefit of all citizens of Cape Town. Members of the PHA Food & Farming Campaign joined Benito Vergotine in studio, listen to the conversation here: PHA Food & Farming Campaign The PHA Food & Farming campaign is about protecting the value of the Phillipi Horticultural Area as a food growing area. If we loose this space we will have to
What’s Going Viral: Post-surgery Taylor Swift has a Meltdown over a Banana in a Video her Mom Recorded
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I don’t know if you’ve ever had surgery, but when you’re in recovery and coming around you can different reactions to anesthetic. Some people get angry, some are very groggy and disoriented, and some people get very emotional. The post-surgery haze is real, except most of us average people don’t usually have our vulnerable moments shared with millions of people. Yet, thanks to Taylor Swift’s mom Andrea Swift, we’ve all been gifted a video of
Career policeman Frederick “FC” van Wyk is no stranger to tackling criminals, but he put himself to a different test when he defended SA from tourists speaking badly about his country at an embassy stall at the Rugby World Cup. He and his son Matthew, 19, had travelled to Yokohama to catch arguably one of the most anticipated matches, both proudly wearing their green and gold. Van Wyk, a spokesperson for SAPS in the Western
GreenCape hosted the “Green future landscape of the Western Cape” Exhibition at Premier Alan Winde’s First Thursdays on 3 October. The exhibition was hosted in partnership with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and the Western Cape Government. More than 30 greentech companies used this opportunity to engage with the Premier and his cabinet. These companies and projects showcased their innovative green technologies, ideas, services and products. From electric vehicles, to water efficiency technologies to up-cycled products
