RHS ESSENTIAL

This term, we will discuss the qualities of highly successful teenagers. Read the posts daily and attempt to engage with the trait for the day. After all, the aim of your education is to guarantee your success in the future.

Success Quality 8: RESPECT FOR WOMEN EVERYDAY

Respect is the building block of all healthy relationships. Respect is offered, exchanged and received in the places we spend our time: homes, schools, workplaces, sporting clubs and more. Respect is a word most of us are familiar with; and we apply it to our lives and relationships in different ways.

Today's Birthdays:

Rethabile Lerefolo (Grade 10)
Kagiso Makgale (Grade 8)
Kamohelo Mangoale (Grade 12)

Saturday Birthdays:

Llewelyn Aapies (Grade 12)
Thato Kaudi (Grade 11)
Boitumelo Mkhize (Grade 12)
Oratile Moatshe (Grade 9)
Koketso Nhlapo (Grade 10)
Kamva Ntluko (Grade 11)

Sunday birthdays:

Ayanda Dikgopo (Grade 12)
Buhle Legae (Grade 8)
Mahlatse Moganedi (Grade 12)
Lehlohonolo Moiloa (Grade 9)
Chasten Molefi (Grade 12)
Mpho Ndaba (Grade 9)
Kagiso Ramafoko (Grade 8)

2005:Reported arrest of London bomb mastermind, Rashid Aswat

2004: Library and clinic names are changed in Pretoria

2004: South Africa gets a new R5 coin with distinct security features designed to outsmart counterfeiters

1976: An earthquake in the industrial city of Tangshan, China, killed more than 240,000 people.

1914: World War I begins. Using the assassination of the Austrian archduke Francis Ferdinand as a pretext to present Serbia with an unacceptable ultimatum, Austria-Hungary declared war on the Slavic country on this day in 1914, sparking World War I.

1844: Gerard Manley Hopkins, who was one of the most individual of Victorian writers and who influenced many leading 20th-century poets, was born in Stratford, Essex, England.

ANC wants municipalities to redirect unspent funds

ANC NEC member and deputy minister of Cogta Parks Tau says more needs to be done to improve service delivery in municipalities that fail to spend grant money.
The ANC says municipalities must redirect unspent funds to other departments to improve service delivery.
ANC national executive committee (NEC) member and co-operative governance and traditional affairs deputy minister Parks Tau said this was the party's plan to improve services in local government.

Tau participated in a two-day ANC workshop to help the worst performing municipalities.
“We want the money to go to the services needed in communities. Allow the national or provincial government to spend [the money] on your behalf.
“Let's not deprive the people in your community of access to services needed. The NEC has already made a decision on it,” Tau told Newzroom Afrika.
He said the NEC and co-operative governance department would implement a plan to boost the capacity of struggling municipalities.    
“We will prioritise municipalities in distress. We will send engineers and specialists when needed to boost capacity in municipalities.” 
Earlier this month auditor-general Tsakani Maluleke revealed KwaZulu-Natal only spent R251m of the R5.8bn received in grants, loans and reprioritised budgets to respond to the April 2022 floods. 
Nine municipalities in the North West returned more than R340m to the National Treasury after not spending it this year. The municipalities include the City of Matlosana, Ruth Mompati, Rustenburg, Moses Kotane, JB Marks, Ratlou, Ditsobotla and Mamusa.