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Volume 11, Issue 7, July 2022
Our ‘poem’ for Women’s Month
Contents JUly 02 School Calendar 03 Poem for June 06 Editor’s letter 08 Contributors 10 Holler at us 11 Women’s Month - so important 12 Overberg: Women’s Month - how? 14 Women’s Month - Where and how 16 Women’s Month - Voting 22 Women in ICT - industry-view 26 Flash facts - Masiziba won again
Contents 2022 30 Women in Accounting 36 Masiziba’s Journey - a role model 40 Space debris - DANGER AHEAD 46 Boris no more! 50 Weird stuff - names on things 54 Female Performers - they are good 56 It is Movie Time! 58 The Month of August 60 We need writers 62 Next Issue
Women’s Month August is the last month of winter. Spring is on thw way. But August is also Women’s Month and that is estremely important. Gender based issues are out there and it is difficult to navigate it all
We have a collection of articles for you on this ‘heavy’ issue: Masiziba is describing her achievements - and those are aplenty. We look at women in accounting and also female artists. What is the status of women in the ICT sector? That is where we have an industry-view. There is input from a district in terms of how to brief on Women’s Day and Month. ... But we also have a ‘farewell’ to Boris. And who is going to take over. How is it determined and what does it entail. All good skender. The science portion is about space debris. Weird stuff. Did you know an astronaut lost her toothbrush in space? One wonders. Good read!
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Masiziba Hadebe is doing her Master’s Agricultural Economics at the University of the Free State (UFS). She is driven to make a change and is a passionate volunteer for community projects. She loves reading and writing about science, agriculture and anything in between. She believes you can wear a smile whatever the weather! I am Marcia Ramodike from Limpopo Tzaneen at lenyenye. I am an author when not studying. I am passionate about writing and i live to give hope and wish to change the world. I love reading and in most of my time i write. My favourite book is ‘Her Mothers Hope by Francine Rivers. And we are honoured to also have industry-views from: Edith Wynne-Trollip: Curriculum Support and advise, Overberg District Ashalia Maharajh: Founder & Director, Sivuka Consulting (Pty) Ltd Thozamile Mvumvu: CFE Programme Manager, False Bay TVET
Artvilla Dakamela, 22, another wizard from the literature world, he is an Accounting student at the University of the Free State. He has written for the Initiative for Creative African Narratives (iCAN) amongst others. He currently resides in Durban KZN - and is a very enthusiastic reader and writer.
My name is Molatelo Kate Kgatla, I’m 24 years old. I was born and raised in Lenyenye. I’m a grade 2 teacher at Vunza Teddy Bear Learning Academy, an author of a book titled her jouney as a young mother. I became a mother at 17. It influenced me to write about my personal journey to try and help someone that could be going through the same. I love writing and I love my 7 year old daughter and life. Lesly Malose Mahapa is a singer/writer/poet. He started writing at the age of 14 and has since been on a journey to pursue his music and writing career. Lesly is currently working with an indie group ‘MozSouth’ based in Ivory park, Midrand. Lesly is also a brand ambassador for a local clothing line “Boi Boi apparel”
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August is Women’s month. Women’s Day is on 9 August. We might ask ourselves if this is now something for us in school. Is it not just something for a day off for mum and dad? Maybe some speeches? We probably have to realise that it is something for all of us, regardless of age and position. We still see differences in behavior towards girls or women, purely based on gender. And that is why it is important to have a month dedicated to a focus on such issues. If we turn the pages, we will see that this issue is full of inspiring articles. Not just about achievements, but on daily issues as well. We can all do our bit to create the society we want to live in, and it all starts very early. It is all about attitude and that is one thing we can change. Therefore: we call out to everybody to make this month spectacular and to be conscious about what we are doing going forward. It is a journey, but hey, any journey starts with the first step.
Do we brief on Women’s Month and how? Every year, in August, our country marks Women’s Month. We also pay tribute to the more than 20 000 women who marched to the Union Buildings on 9 August 1956 in protest, against the extension of Pass Laws to women. Source here. In August young girls and women in the schools are encouraged to get an education in order to improve their lives and the lives of that live with them. Quality of life and Equality for Women is almost always at the crux of the conversation each year. Gender Based Violence and gender biases are discussed and placed on the agenda particularly during this month. Women in Leadership roles, Women and Finances, Financial Aid and Financial Empowerment of Women of all walks of life are issues that are discussed and ways to bring the gap on par with those that men have traditionally enjoyed. Women in sports and equality in sports e.g. advertisement and screen airtime for women’s matters, sports and games are equally important. Source here.
To have respect for self and others is crucial. Making informed decisions and choices that will impact our lives in the long run is a part of it. Making healthy lifestyle choices, getting the most out of life and taking advantage of the available opportunities on offer in the education system is a must. Taking responsibility for our own futures, delaying motherhood and making choices about our own reproductive health that will positively impact on our mental health, academic progress, and personal growth is taught. Social Partners plays an active role in Women’s Month and is part and parcel of the month of August. Municipalities, Youth organizations and Local Interest Groups are invited to focus on themes such as: Women and Education, Women in Leadership Positions, Various Funding Options and Women, Equality in relationships, The Right to just and fair working conditions, Housing and Property Ownership, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights that comes along with it. Marriage, Culture and Customary Marriage, Divorce and Women are topics for discussion. Since times are rapidly changing and since what used to be “the norm” is not the only option these days, more can be added to the discussion as the need arises.
Edith Wynne-Trollip (writing in her personal capacity) Curriculum Support and Advise Overberg Education District
Women’s Day Women’s Day is having a long history. It is not just something new that came around after UN recognised Women’s day in 1977. It is something very different from Mother’s day. Mother’s Day has many good intentions. There we are looking at saying ‘thank you’ to the mothers across the globe that brought up the nations. Mother’s Day has no sharp edge, but Women’s Day has. What time frame are we talking about? And what were the issues? We look at the 1900s. Sure enough, women in general (across the globe really) did not have the right to vote, could not own property or sign business deals, could not enrol at university, could not …. A plethora of things. So what changed? The industrial revolution which required a lot more industrial workers. Women got out of the house and into the factories. As more women got to be bread-winners and acting in their own right (not just a companion to a husband), the demand for recognition was sharpened.
1909 saw the first ‘Women’s Day’ (USA) and it was soon followed with the International Women’s day - from 1910 and onwards. First World War saw the entire established order of ‘society’ being turned upside down. Social changes were demanded and equality was on the agenda. The first major obstacle (and victory) was the right to vote. Society again changed after Second World war. Women were suddenly to be found as soldiers or factory workers or business owners and in essence; as individuals in their own right. And the rights to go with it were indeed demanded now. The laws of the countries changed (by and large). Equality as we see it is enshrined in the constitutions around the world. But we can ask ourselves: is it enough? The theme for Women’s Day according to UN is “Generation Equality”. It does point out that equality is not achieved in all countries. There are still pockets of oppression. South Africa’s constitution guarantees an equal society. However, one thing is the law another is culture and tradition. And that is where we as South Africa should now look. Do we still see a male-dominated environment? Do we still see malejobs and female-jobs? Do we see differences in salaries based on gender? Do we see gender-violence? This is where attitudes in society must change to reflect the intentions of law. … and that is why Women’s Day is still relevant!
Voti It may seem a bit strange. What is it about being able to vote? Well, it is the general participation in determining where the society is moving. To have a say in the future. This is the importance of democracy and equal rights in the broadest context. But what is the track record of that? We need to get beyond WW1 for seeing any major movement towards change in voting rights. Be aware as well, that although democracies were emerging in the 1800’s, the voting rights were typically limited to men. On top of, they had to have a certain income or be property owners. That removed the right to vote from the majority of people. The process was not only about women voting. That notion of ‘one man, one vote’ was just not enacted before we got much later as well. It is therefore important to not see this in isolation. The whole (European) development of democracy also encompassed women voting. So let us therefore turn to this aspect. Wiki says: “Most independent countries enacted women’s suffrage in the interwar era, including Canada in 1917, Britain in 1918 and the United States in 1920. Leslie Hume argues that the First World War changed the popular mood: The women’s contribution to the war effort challenged the notion of women’s physical and
ing! mental inferiority and made it more difficult to maintain that women were, both by constitution and temperament, unfit to vote. If women could work in munitions factories, it seemed both ungrateful and illogical to deny them a place in the polling booth. But the vote was much more than simply a reward for war work; the point was that women’s participation in the war helped to dispel the fears that surrounded women’s entry into the public arena”. The years leading up to WWII saw the majority of countries enacting women voting. The rest was by and large done with in the years just after WWII. Wiki: “The United Nations encouraged women’s suffrage in the years following World War II, and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979) identifies it as a basic right with 189 countries currently being parties to this Convention. PS: The last place to grant women voting was the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden. It is the smallest canton of Switzerland by population. It was the last Swiss canton to grant women the vote on local issues, in 1991.
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Prudence Mathebula: Founder and MD
The Time Is Now For Women In Tech As 4IR Skills Demand Climbs It seems the South African digital sector hasn’t quite grasped the ageold law of supply and demand. Technology companies are scrambling for capable female professionals to help shrink the gender gap and advance diversity, but the pool of available talent is low. The dichotomy is worrying especially for a sector that prides itself with being one step ahead of everyone else. We have known for some time now that women are grossly underrepresented in the digital sector, holding less than 25 percent of South African tech jobs but if things carry on as they are, women risk completely out-skilling themselves from future tech jobs in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). Equipping even more talented females with the right critical skills of the future starts at the grassroots level and Prudence Mathebula - shareholder and Managing Director of Dynamic DNA is tackling it head on through her 4IR4HER movement. The twenty-six-year-old, Soweto-born
entrepreneur isn’t surprised that South African women tend to gravitate away from STEM-related (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) degrees at university level. A career in ICT never crossed her mind when she was embarking on her studies, and it was only after completing her diploma in marketing and advertising that she fully realised how valuable an ICT qualification could be in paving the way to more exciting and rewarding careers.
From working on the internet and designing software and apps to implementing cyber security systems and coding trendy games, the career opportunities are endless (and pay cheques just as great), but women need to have the right qualifications and experience first. Prudence is determined to change the belief that a career in ICT leads to boring male jobs and upskill as many of South Africa’s underprivileged and unemployed 15-34-year-old women as possible. Her training and skills development company, Dynamic DNA, partners with top ICT vendors across the country, providing a variety of fully accredited, specialist courses for digitally savvy female candidates who have the right cognitive abilities, behaviours, and values, but not the qualification to match. “With women making considerable strides in fields that were previously male dominated, the lines of career limitations have blurred. There are more career choices available to women now than ever before, allowing them to take charge of their own destiny. It is so important that women start to view their career in technology as a major life-changing opportunity,” says Prudence.
The right aptitude and attitude It all boils down to aptitude and attitude and Boitumelo Tshepe, currently on the Dynamic DNA 4IR4Her programme, has both in spades. A maths whiz at school and with an older sister studying web development, Boitumelo knew that a career in IT was a no brainer, but the only thing she was lacking was the qualification and experience. Thanks to Prudence’s 4IR4HER programme, Boitumelo is now in her final year of a Level 5 National Certificate in Information Technology Systems Development course, learning about object oriented and Fourth Generation language programming, website development, multimedia, and e-commerce, and she is also a student in software development at TUT. She is also getting hands on experience in mobile and database development in her practical at Cloudsmiths, one of the fastest growing companies within the salesforce ecosystem in Southern Africa. “I have learnt so much already and am so excited to enter the workforce and begin my career,” she says excitedly, with only a few months left before she graduates in 2023. The buck doesn’t stop with women Boitumelo is a shining example of how programmes like 4IR4HER can make a significant difference to the lives of everyday women. Yet for Prudence to meet her aim of developing baseline skills and creating employment opportunities for 5,000 underprivileged women in the local tech industry, she needs the invaluable support of big business.
“There is a huge lack of skills in industries related to 4IR, which is booming. As businesses set up sustainable ways to digitise and become more competitive, developing a people pipeline for now and the future is critical,” adds Prudence Aggressive campaigns to recruit, hire, retain, and promote female talent is simply not enough. Both the private and public sector needs to commit and invest in learnerships, bursaries, skills development programmes and internships for women to help diversify their workplace. Not only is this good for business, improving productivity and innovation that in turn has a positive knock-on effect on their bottom line, but in doing so businesses can also benefit from several incentives like accessing available SETA grants and skills funding, tax rebates, as well as advancing their B-BBEE scorecard.
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Thesis Flash fact competition: How I won it. By: Masiziba Hadebe As a Master’s student in Agricultural Economics at University of the Free State (UF), I was fortunate enough to be part of an annual thesis competition at the university. The catch, in this competition, was that you had to present your thesis in three minutes in a way that everyone can understand. At the end of the competition, I was selected as the 2022 winner in the master’s category. So how did I present a 100+ paged document in three minutes? To give a bit of background, the competition was divided into two stages: departmental stage and Faculty stage. The rules were the same for each stage.
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My study is titled the economic value of root accessible water table information. Indeed, this can be a mouthful. Therefore, I broke it down in a way that everyone could understand. Firstly, I started explaining the situation around water: how
important it is to everyone and highlighting its importance by stating the fact that it has no alternative. It is practically irreplaceable. I further mentioned the elephant in the room: water scarcity, which is a huge challenge for industries. This was important to do as I was judged on whether the presentation was understandable – presented so that an average person can follow. Secondly, I mentioned that irrigation agriculture is where we turn to for the solution because irrigation agriculture is estimated to use 70% of the available water resources worldwide. This translates to the industry potentially being restricted in its water use in the near future. Mentioning this was also important as I was judged on whether I was able to illustrate the significance of the research. I continued to mention that some studies have found that in most irrigation soils, there are root accessible water tables which differ for each crop. These water tables can contribute to about 50% of the water requirements during the growing season. However, the challenge lies in the fact that farmers do not use information about these water tables.
My task, I further mentioned, is to estimate what economic value irrigation farmers will get if they consider using the root accessible water tables (with the end aim of convincing them to use the root accessible water table information). For instance, how much electricity is saved on pumping water in an optimal way? how much less water would be applied? This too was important as I was judged on the clarity around what question is being addressed. In closing, I mentioned the tools I was using, ranging from bio-economic modelling to value of information analytical tools. The key, indeed, was to be brief and concise while telling a story. PS: The prize money was a whooping R5,000-00!
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Women in Accounting
Gender and economic inequalities had a profound impact on women in the accounting profession, hence the not-very-large number of female Chartered Accountants in South Africa. Although there has been a drastic increase in their numbers as CAs in recent years, the profession remains overwhelmingly dominated by men. So, whenever you read about women who, throughout history, have achieved the Chartered Accountancy designation, you cannot help but applaud these women for their remarkable accomplishments. We honour these women, not just because they’re women, but because they reshaped history and continue to inspire young women like you! Women such as Elizabeth Kruger (first female Chartered Accountant in South Africa), Nonkululeko Gobodo (first black female Chartered Accountant in South Africa), Sindi Mabaso-Konyana (founder of African Women Chartered Accountants which provides financial support and leadership development to aspiring black female Chartered Accountants) and all the women who participate in accelerating the advancement of women Chartered Accountants, are all spearheads within the field of Chartered Accountancy.
According to the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) membership statistics, as of May 2022, women make up about 40.10% of the profession. However, it is important to note that, despite the percentage of women CAs, the gap between the number of male and female CAs should be emphasized as being richer in information and should be ideal for statistical analysis. The table below makes it easier to see the difference between the male and female CAs in the years 2019 to May 2022. 2019 2020 Women Men Women 17,556 28,516 18,379
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2021 Women Men 19,311 29,479
2022 Women Men 20,181 30,143
While it is obvious that the country is moving positively on the subject of gender equality within the profession, there is still a lot to be done in order to lessen the gap between the genders. This leads to the practical question of how to accelerate the development of women within the CA(SA) field. Below are the few simple ways to accomplish this objective. Support Mentorship and support as early as grade 10, when they start to recognize Accountancy as a possible career option, will encourage these young women to look ahead and move further. Engagement with qualified female professionals Accomplished CAs are great role models, and often have a fortunate position to offer adequate assistance to female learners who wish to branch into the profession. To put in a nutshell, a culture shift eliminating gender biases and encouraging, inspiring and elevating women within the Chartered Accountancy profession is needed!
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New Exhibitions
We added two new exhibitions to our collection on the floor. The 4IR and Mirror Maze exhibitions
4IR Exhibition The 4IR exhibition currently hosts the Humanoids (two small ones and the big one called Pepper), Virtual reality Station, Augmented Reality and the interactive displays integrated with of a number of TV screens. This concept is through the touch screen located at the entrance to the center. Interactive display section has been created where visitors are encouraged to use traditional touch screens to immerse themselves in games and content around Science Technology Engineering and Arts and Mathematics (STEAM).
Children are provided with the opportunity to play games to train their analytical ability, improve their ability to solve puzzles and chal-
lenges. They are also challenged to explore more traditional content style, such as exploration of subjects including how Artificial Intelligence works, Machine Learning, how data transfers over networks etc. Science Exploration While traditional science teaching has complex challenges around logistics, safety and costs. VR has none of these limitations. Experiments are done as often as needed with no physical costs of materials or safety concerns. Students can learn about physics and chemistry, life science etc. in a safe environment. Within VR learning occurs without any distract but with full immersion. Learning and understanding mathematics becomes easier and more fun inside of VR due to the nature of games and how they are designed. This is designed to make learning and exploration real fun especially for little ones. Wide learning opportunities exist through this exhibition, children have many prospects to learn on, e.g. google earth exploration experience. With Google Earth VR, children can travel to almost any place in the world. They can fly all over the world and explore any city, any monument and landmark anywhere in the world.The exhibition has two different types of humanoids the small one (called Sanbot Max and the Bigger one called Pepper). The Sanbot Max robot was designed to be implemented into numerous kinds of business scenarios, providing customers and staff members with intelligent and efficient services. Pepper is a semi-humanoid robot, which means that a human has to control it. It is designed with the ability to read emotions. Pepper recognizes faces and basic human emotion.
Drones and Mirror Maze Drones Pilots at the Clubhouse Did you know that the Clubhouse has three certified drone pilots? They also have 10 DJI Tell drones that they will used for their drone course. They are currently putting together content for the said course. In addition, the Clubhouse offers programmes such as Teach Fundamentals of drones, real-life applications of drones: namely surveillance using object identification and tracking to videography for commercials and other media use. This includes python programming that covers drone automation.
Mirror Maze Exhibit A mirror is an object that reflects an image. Light that bounces off a mirror will show an image of whatever is in front of it, when focused through the lens of the eye or a camera. Mirrors reverse the direction of the image in an equal yet opposite angle from which the light shines upon it. This allows the viewer to see themselves or objects behind them, or even objects that are at an angle from them but out of their field of view, such as around a corner. Natural mirrors prehistoric times, water, but people turing mirrors out rials for thousands metals, and glass. metals like silver often used due to applied as a thin cause of its natuhard surface.
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A maze is a path or collection of paths, typically from an entrance to a goal. The word is used to refer both to branching tour puzzles through which the solver must find a route, and to simpler non-branching patterns that lead unambiguously through a convoluted layout to a goal. The pathways and walls in a maze are typically fixed, but puzzles in which the walls and paths can change during the game are also categorised as mazes or tour puzzles Mirror Maze The mirror maze itself is a pattern, combining several characteristics of geometric patterns: repetition, symmetry and tessellation using repeated equilateral triangles. These triangles fit together without any gaps or overlaps, creating a tessellation. Mirrored surfaces all around reflect the pattern so that it repeats and appears infinite.
Masiziba Rolemodel and idol I have been asked by the wonderful team at Hola to write an article about my achievements from a sixteen-year-old writer to now a Masters candidate. This has been a culmination of more than six years of hard work and I have honestly learnt a lot. To start off, I would like to recall my grade 11 and Grade 12 years of study. These are the years where I found myself being part of Hola Ma High School Magazine. I worked on a series of articles ranging from how coal is not green, nuclear energy and food security. These articles were way beyond my curriculum but I was interested in finding out information and given today’s situation, those articles are still relevant. Fortunately, the articles were not only published by Hola Ma High School but are part of the Library at my previous high school were they are easily accessible to the learners there.
I honestly write for them as I focus on what I wish I had known during that age. This makes it easy for me and the Hola team to come up with relevant article ideas. After High School, I went on to study at the University of the Free State. I did a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Economics and went on to do my honors in the same major. My first achievement during this time was to be a recipient of the Rural Education Access Programme (REAP) Bursary. This programme started in my Grade 11 year of study and after an extensive selection process, I was selected as one of the recipients. REAP took me to varsity and for that I will forever be grateful. Owing to the drive I had to succeed in varsity, I was involved in several projects and received acknowledgement for the hard work and dedication. For instance, I mankey international is an organizaacademic excelas a project secUFS under their called Sprout focused on helping in Zastron, QwaQwa yields and have access
aged to become a golden society member, which tion that recognizes lence. I also served retary at Enactus Agricultural project Africa which mainly smallholder farmers and Malawi to improve to markets.
I was also selected as one of the career network volunteers in the University where I was aiding students in career development through helping in organizing career workshops. I was also given the opportunity to be one of the selected university representatives by Enke in their ignition programme for which I was given the task to facilitate leadership programmes to grade 10-12 learners.
At the end of my Bachelor’s degree, REAP also recognized me as a student leader and I received an award for that along with the 11 distinctions I had obtained making me the 2nd best academic achiever in the Gauteng and Free State REAP region. The student leadership award was a recognition of the work I put into the Peer Buddy programme where I was actively helping REAP first year students to adjust to the transition from home to university. The aforementioned duties and awards is what I achieved during my Undergraduate studies. In 2020, I went on to do my Honours Degree. Of course, the degree was completed (with distinction) under uncertain times as the world experienced a pandemic. In these circumstances, however, I managed to achieve a lot. For instance, I was selected as the Rethinking Economics for Africa Chairperson which is an organization that equips Economics students to solve challenges in the African context. In the same year, I went on to start a food garden in my previous high school.
I am currently doing my Master of Science in Agricultural Economics and doing big things. I am in irrigation water management. This is something important to me as someone who is in the Agricultural space as Irrigation Agriculture uses the bulk of available water resources while water is scarce and the need to produce more food increases. Studies like mine aim to balance the need in the presence of water scarcity. During this time, one of my articles titled ocean farms won the Hollard Junior Agri-writers competition. I was also the winner of the 2022 flash fact thesis competition at the university where I was required to present my thesis in three minutes in a way that everyone could understand.
I was also selected by my University to represent them in the 2022 Agbiz congress for the student case competition where I was selected as the best presenter and my team came second overall. Indeed, these achievements are nothing but a combination of hard work and dedication along with some failures that serve as stepping stones.
Masiziba Hadebe
Space debris – is it dangerous? What is it? Wiki says “Space debris is defunct human-made objects in space—principally in Earth orbit—which no longer serve a useful function. That means old satellites, parts of rocket stages, rocket motors and other bigger pieces. However, space debris is also pieces from satellite collisions, paint flecks, unburned particles from solid-rocket motors or even frozen coolants and rocket fuel. Wiki: “As of January 2021, the US Space Surveillance Network reported 21,901 artificial objects in orbit above the Earth, including 4,450 operational satellites.[9] However, these are just the objects large enough to be tracked. As of January 2019, more than 128 million pieces of debris smaller than 1 cm (0.4 in), about 900,000 pieces of debris 1–10 cm, and around 34,000 of pieces larger than 10 cm (3.9 in) were estimated to be in orbit around the Earth” We need to understand the velocity of ‘things’ in orbit. Space debris (and other objects) travel at some 25,000 km per hour. That will mean a head-on collision speed of some 50,000 kph. That will really ruin your day, even if it is just a paint speck!
The best part of it all is in LEO (Low Earth-Orbit). That is up 1,000 km up in space. The most part of space stations and satellites are flying up to some 400 km. And that is of course where we see the best part of space debris. ISS is there, Hubble is there and so on. Webb is 1,2 km away so reasonable safe.
Reality is: it is dangerous and the chances of getting hit by something are ever increasing. The risk to satellites being launched into LEO orbit may even be too high and no more satellites will be put into orbit (LEO at least). With so much junk around, it may even be deemed very risky to launch anything as it will have to fly through a debris field. Is it possible to either ‘hoover’ the space environment or to protect what we send up there? Just to have a shield seems too passive. It does not address the problem.
Some of the space debris are of more ‘exotic’ nature: “Space debris includes a glove lost by astronaut Ed White on the first American spacewalk, a camera lost by Michael Collins near Gemini 10, a thermal blanket lost during STS-88, garbage bags jettisoned by Soviet cosmonauts during Mir’s 15-year life, a wrench, and a toothbrush. Sunita Williams of STS-116 lost a camera during an EVA. During an STS-120 EVA to reinforce a torn solar panel, a pair of pliers was lost, and in an STS-126 EVA, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper lost a briefcase-sized tool bag” “Since 1999, the ISS has changed course 25 times to avoid known debris. To protect the station from smaller, unknown pieces of clutter, the craft is covered in more than 100 impact shields known as Whipple Shields, which serve as “sacrificial bumpers” to take incoming hits instead of the ISS wall, according to NASA. Multiple dents and dings on the ISS exterior show that the station has been hit with debris before; in June 2021, a piece of debris even plowed a hole into one of the station’s robotic arms — a metal apparatus with a diameter of just 14 inches (35 cm). Luckily, it inflicted very little damage
and the arm resumed operations immediately.” (Source: www.livescience.com/ iss-danger-russia-missile-test) The sad truth is: There is no agreement or ‘law’ in placed to regulate the growth of space debris. There is no economical incentive in place for space polluters to clean up. What is proposed is that bigger pieces (rocket motors, boosters, upper-stages, etc) must have enough fuel to decelerate and burn up in the atmosphere. Or, if that is not possible, to fly off into space (some will collide with the Moon). That is forward-thinking but not address what is already there. One suggestion is to fly a robotic machine into space that will ‘collect’ bigger pieces and either fly off to a safe orbit (a space graveyard) or de-orbit with it and burn up. ESA is awarding contracts to do that. However, it is expensive to fly a robot up there that in essence will self-destruct. And it still leaves the smaller pieces (pain specks). A giant 700 m diameter net was suggested and launched in 2014. The net never unfolded and the test was not a success. The solution must be to limit the growth of space debris via regulations. That will create a safe environment. The it is time to clean up. If we don’t do something, it might be impossible to travel into space soon!
What is NSFAS?
The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) is a government entity under the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET)
What does NSFAS do? Supports access to and success in, higher education and training for students from poor and working-class families who would otherwise not be able to afford the cost of studies at a public university or Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) college. • Provides financial aid to eligible students who are studying or plan to study at any of the 50 TVET colleges or the 26 public universities in South Africa • Identifies students who qualify for the bursary • Provides bursaries to students
Who qualifies for NSFAS funding? • All South African citizens • All SASSA grant recipients • Applicants whose combined household income is not more than R350 000 per annum • Persons with disabilities with a combined household income of not more than R600 000 per annum • Students who started studying at a university before 2018 and whose household income is not more than R122 000 per annum
What does the NSFAS bursary cover?
• Registration • Tuition • Book allowance • Accommodation allowance • Transport allowance • Food allowance • Personal care allowance
Does the NSFAS bursary offer any additional support for students with disabilities? Yes, NSFAS further supports funded students with disabilities through an additional allowance that covers: • Medical assessments • Assistive devices • Human support to cover for the cost of a caregiver, guide dog, scribe or tutor.
How, where and when can one apply for NSFAS? The 2021 application season will be communicated through media, social media and the NSFAS website www.nsfas.org.za. Applications are submitted online through the NSFAS website: www.nsfas.org.za
To apply for NSFAS funding students must have a registered myNSFAS account. If you plan to study in 2021 and require support from NSFAS, you may open your myNSFAS account now to keep updated with the latest funding information.
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NSFAS Connect: www.nsfas.org.za and log into your myNSFAS account NSFAS Connect gives you access to quick facts and frequently asked questions. Applicants and students can also submit and track a query for further assistance.
Boris no more. I have found a lot of inspiration here and here Boris Johnson finally resigned. He was after all ‘encouraged to do so by his own party members and the conservative MPs. There will be no new general election. The Conservatives hold the majority in parliament anyway, with a comfortable margin – thanks to Boris! So, the decision of who is gong to be the next PM falls to the members of the conservative party. Anyone who wants to be considered must garner at least the endorsement of 20 MPs. Then they will be on the list that can now be voted on by the MPs. Anyone with less than 30 votes are out of the race. Then there will be consecutive rounds of voting where the one with the fewest votes will be out. This carries on until there is only two left.
That has now been achieved! The final round is that the conservative party members will then vote by mail on their preferred candidate. The winner will be announced 5 September as it stands now. Who are the conservative members then? There are some 160,000 party members, equals to 0.3% of the electorate. “Professor Tim Bale, head of Queen Mary University of London and Sussex University Party Members Project, says: “The people who get to choose our next prime minister are far from being representative of voters as a whole” According to the most recent research by Prof Bale’s team, from January 2020: • 63% of Conservative Party members are male, and 37% female • 6% are under 24-years-old, 36% are aged 25 to 49-years-old, 19% are aged between 50 and 64-years-old, and 39% are over 65 • 24% backed Remain in the EU referendum, and 76% backed Leave • 56% live in London and the south-east of England, 18% in the Midlands and Wales, 20% in the north of England and 6% in Scotland • 80% belong to the highest social economic groups known as ABC1 Look out for the amount of ‘leave’ supporters and recognize that 58% are 50+ Not many young conservative here. It means that the two candidates must look out not to offend this significant part.
Who are the two candidates? Wiki says: Mary Elizabeth Truss (born 26 July 1975) is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs since 2021 and as Minister for Women and Equalities since 2019. She has been MP for South West Norfolk since 2010. She has served in various cabinet positions under David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson. A former president of the Oxford University Liberal Democrats, Truss joined the Conservative Party after graduating from Oxford in 1996 and is now considered to be part of the Tory right. Prior to her entry into politics she worked at Shell, Cable & Wireless and was deputy director of the think tank Reform. Truss became a member of parliament at the 2010 general election. As a backbencher, she called for reform in several policy areas including childcare, maths education and the economy. She founded the Free Enterprise Group of Conservative MPs and wrote or co-wrote a number of papers and books, including After the Coalition (2011) and Britannia Unchained (2012).
Rishi Sunak (born 12 May 1980) is a British politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2020 to 2022, having previously been the Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2019 to 2020. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been MP for Richmond (Yorks) since 2015. Sunak was educated at Winchester College. He subsequently read philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) at Lincoln College, Oxford, and later gained an MBA from Stanford University in California as a Fulbright Scholar. While studying at Stanford, he met his future wife Akshata Murty, the daughter of N. R. Narayana Murthy, the Indian billionaire businessman who founded Infosys. Sunak and Murthy are the 222nd richest people in Britain, with a combined fortune of £730m as of 2022. After graduating, he worked for Goldman Sachs and later as a partner at the hedge fund firms The Children’s Investment Fund Management and Theleme Partners. After May resigned, Sunak was a supporter of Boris Johnson’s campaign to become Conservative leader. After Johnson was elected and appointed Prime Minister, he appointed Sunak as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Sunak replaced Sajid Javid as Chancellor of the Exchequer after his resignation in February 2020. Both have been ministers under Boris – and both stabbed him! … and we look forward to how they will address Brexit, Ukraine, emigration, food prices and much more.
OK, it is not conspiracy stuff, but we found something else to put a smile on the face. There are some strange names of things out there, but where are these names coming from? We have found some explanations. Kit-Kat Our favourite snack. But the name? I found explanations here Here are some: “Some claim the treat is named after a club in England, called the Kit-Cat, where Sir Godfrey Kneller’s paintings of club members hung in the late 1600s and early 1700s. This club had low ceilings, so it could only accommodate paintings of a specific size, historically referred to as “kit-cat size.” “According to Nestle, the company that produces our beloved Kit Kat bars, a confectioner named Joseph Rowntree officially coined the name and started selling the treat in 1935.
However, Nestle also says that the “name first appeared on a boxed assortment of chocolates that Rowntree’s made during the 1920s.” That name officially came from an 18th century Whig literary club titled after a man named Christopher Catling—or Kit Cat. It sounds like that might be the real origin of the Kit Kat name!” Sneakers or takkies Let us just stay with sneakers for now. Of course the popularity comes from Nike, Adidas, Puma, Converse and more. 1960s and 1970s were the years where the usage of ‘sneakers’ really got into its stride. Wiki: “he word “sneaker” is often attributed to American Henry Nelson McKinney, who was an advertising agent for N. W. Ayer & Son. In 1917, he used the term because the rubber sole made the shoe’s wearer stealthy. The word was already in use at least as early as 1887, when the Boston Journal made reference to “sneakers” as “the name boys give to tennis shoes.” The name “sneakers” originally referred to how quiet the rubber soles were on the ground, in contrast to noisy standard hard leather sole dress shoes. Someone wearing sneakers could “sneak up”, while someone wearing standards could not. … and nearly every country has a local word for those shoes!
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Female artists: More than ever
Music has always been a male dominated industry and women have always been fighting to change that and have been working hard to get their voices heard. I must say what a time to be alive for women in the South African music industry. Though I feel there are more female artists out there who are still not afforded the same opportunities as the male counterparts, the world is surely changing and we have a lot of female artists making an impact in the industry. Their hard work, talent and determination don’t go unnoticed and in this article I am going to cover some of artists who are doing amazing work in their respective fields. Makhadzi The multiple award winning Makhadzi is a perfect example of “from nothing to something”. Born and breed in Vhenda and started her music career by singing in her own language and dancing in the streets of her neighborhood, she is now pioneering the Limpopo sound and taking it to the world. It shows how resilient and talented she is and right now you can’t go anywhere in the country where you don’t hear a Makhadzi sound Durban Gogo Besides her being the daughter of Jeff Radebe and growing up in a welloff family, she is one of the best female DJs in the country. She is also
pioneering ‘amapiano’. She has been touring the world with the likes of Kabza de small and Maphorisa. Gigi Lamyne Hip hop award winning female rapper and UJ graduate, she is both intelligent and talented and currently owns her own record label and is working a lot with international artists. She was touring USA promoting her new album Sho Majozi She also one of the pioneers of her own sound and has taken the Tsonga language to the world. She is also featured on the sound-track of the movie Black Panther and is a BET award nominee. She has taken the country by storm with her dance moves and energetic personality.
These are just a few that I could mention but I know there is a whole lot more that I didn’t mention. Our country is full of talented and hard-working artists that are currently taking the world by storm and most of those artists are women. What really stands out about them is that they are doing it authentically using their home languages and this time around when it comes to music, Africa is in the spotlight and everyone else is trying to keep up with our sound It is Africa time and it is time for the world to see us the way we want to be seen.
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Last month of winter – spring is coming! The following is all inspired by Wiki. We have found a few things that happens in August. Main message: Be kind. International Left Handers Day is an international day observed annually on August 13 to celebrate the uniqueness and differences of left-handed individuals. The day was first observed in 1976 by Dean R. Campbell, founder of Lefthanders International, Inc. International Lefthanders Day was created to celebrate sinistrality and raise awareness of the advantages and disadvantages of being left-handed in a predominantly right-handed world. It celebrates left-handed people’s uniqueness and differences, a subset of humanity comprising seven to ten percent of the world’s population. The day also spreads awareness on issues faced by left-handers, e.g. the importance of the special needs for left-handed children, and the likelihood for left-handers to develop schizophrenia.
August is Psoriasis Awareness month. Psoriasis is a long-lasting, noncontagious skin disease characterized by raised areas of abnormal skin. These areas are red, or purple on some people with darker skin, dry, itchy, and scaly. Psoriasis varies in severity from small, localized patches to complete body coverage. Injury to the skin can trigger psoriatic skin changes at that spot, which is known as the Koebner phenomenon.
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It can be hard for the person because of stigma. Especially if it is a younger person. Therefore, know what it is and be kind. There is no known cure for psoriasis, but various treatments can help control the symptoms. These treatments include steroid creams, vitamin D3 cream, ultraviolet light, and immunosuppressive drugs, such as methotrexate. About 75% of skin involvement improves with creams alone. The disease affects 2–4% of the population.
We need writers! Hola MaHigh-School is YOUR magazine. That is why we would love to see students writing for students about student life and everything of importance to a student in any grade10-12 across the country. What is required? That is easy: You have to be in grade 10-12 somewhere Impeccable in your preferred language-and that might not be English. We try to be more than just English. Passionate about your topic of choice - no dull articles here. Do you get anything out of it? Well, not money, sorrry. BUT if we publish your articles you will have: Your bio in a commercial magazine A photo of yourself You can put it all on your CV you can use us as a reference
Is it important? YES it is. Look what Rofhiwa said: My name is Rofhiwa and I love to write. I have used my skills to express my thoughts on international dealings of the world which have been published in Hola MaHigh-School. It has paid off, not only is my work printed for young people in the country to read, but it also contributed to me gettng a bursary from CNBC-Africa to do my post-graduate studies. Would be a lot harder to get by if I didn’t have a platform like Hola MaHigh-School.
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Next Time... It is time to look at bursaries and funding. After all, that is a part of getting on with an education after high-school. The big thing is of course NSFAS, but that is not the only one out there. Although it can never be 100% we will do out best to point you in the direction of where to find the info required. Spring is arriving - I hope. And that means a lot to us all. It is not just end of year activities, but the world is awakening. We will give some advise on how to figure out what to do after high-school. That is a journey and not something to be decided in a morning session. There are real tools to assist you in this process and they are there to be used. ... and of course: movies, music and perhaps a conspiracy ... if I can find one. Until next time!
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