According to a survey by UK's Telegraph, readers deem #SouthAfrica as the best tourist destination. #CapeTown is praised for its beauty, while the wine country and Garden Route, Drakensberg range, Motlatse Canyon, and Kruger National Park are also commended. Also on the continent, #Kenya and #Botswana rank in the top 10 as well 🌍
Technologies to tackle water-related risks have been chronically underfunded for decades. Could the ‘tide’ be turning?
So much time and funding has been spent on solar and renewable energy generation, and that has actually paid off pretty well. But it is true that the ever-growing world population, combined with some extreme weather conditions, has also been resulting in some ...continues
@danie10#CapeTown's response was elitist - making everyone pay for a soon-abandoned desalination plant instead of purifying the non-potable water given to golf courses for a pittance.
Cape Town libraries have free access to Overdrive or Libby eBooks as well as over 7,000 local and international newspapers via PressReader
Apart from the above there is also online access to African storybooks in English, isiXhosa and Afrikaans, Fundza literacy learning, SA curriculum for homeschooling, ISET publication for careers in IT, and more.
It is really good to see libraries catering ...continues
The politics of street food: the South African chef championing #Zulu cuisine. For Mmabatho Molefe, whose #CapeTown restaurant reinvents ‘peasant dishes’, cooking is a way to fight prejudice. #sustainability#food#SouthAfrica#Africa
OURphone: A Cape Town innovator develops a truly open-source smartphone (hardware and software)
Cape Town-based innovator Evan Robinson claims he has developed the world’s first open source, do-it-yourself (DIY) smartphone that anyone can build from off-the-shelf components.
Robinson says he came up with the idea after getting frustrated by the limit ...continues