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GIVING: HOW DOES SA STACK UP?
Background
For the past 8 years Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) has published a World Giving Index to provide insight into the scope and nature of giving in 138 countries around the world.
This year SA improved to 24th overall and 7th in Africa
But, the devil is in the detail (below)
In order to ensure that giving is understood in its various forms, the report looks at three aspects of giving behaviour. The questions that lie at the heart of the report are:
Have you done any of the following in the past month?
- Helped a stranger, or someone you didn’t know who needed help?
- Donated money to a charity?
- Volunteered your time to an organisation?
Sir John Low, Chief Executive of Charities Aid Foundation reports:
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DEBATING: DOES IT TAKE YEARS OF PRACTICE?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0bYN_JrCzg
An Unlikely World
An Unlikely World. This was the theme for the 2017 World Scholars cup; a debating competition that plays host to more than 2000 students from over 50 countries. It was also a world in which three students from Haythorn Secondary school found themselves in when they flew to Cape Town to participate in the event.
With assistance from the Nelson Mandela Capture Site, under the umbrella of The Apartheid Musem, Tinotenda Mukucha, Nduduzo Nkabinde and Phiwokuhle Maphanga were given an opportunity to participate in the competition’s global round in Cape Town.
“We first met the boys when a local NGO, the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) came to visit the Capture Site. The premise at AVP is to give children a way to communicate the problems that they face in a disadvantaged community without resorting to violence. Debating is a wonderful example of this and so the chance to learn and share these skills with their ‘’peace clubs’’ at school was something we thought invaluable.” Georgie Marques, Nelson Mandela Capture Site
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South African comedian Trevor Noah may have been ‘Born a Crime’ but he’s fast become a ‘Living Legend’.
Noah took over from Jon Stewart as the host of Comedy Central’s flagship show ‘The Daily Show’ in September 2015, to what was described at the time as ‘A Crowd Gone Mild’.
Fast forward two years and Comedy Central’s Kent Alterman said Noah’s ratings are up 28%, to 1.6 million viewers, the only late night show to grow last year.
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THIS WEEK'S FAST FACT
Trade and Industry
Wine time: South Africa is the seventh largest wine producer in the world, producing 3.9% of the world’s wine. In 2016, South Africa produced 898.4 million litres of wine, of which two thirds was white wine and one third was red wine.
Source: www.Eighty20.co.za
