In the News

What an eventful and wonderful year it has been for Awesome SA. Looking back at the people we have met over the past year makes one realise that we do have strong leaders  in our country.

  • We met the outspoken and controversial Jonathan Jansen at the literary festival in May. His latest article on the Times Live website is a testament to his incredible leadership.
  • The environmental campaigner, Lewis Pugh attended the You’re Awesome book launch and has provided input into the proposal to mine our wild coast ( please read Sustaining the Wild Coast).
  • Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who wrote the forward for our book called You’re Awesome,  kept us laughing with his wonderful sense of humour at the Cape Town book launch. We would like to say thank you to the Archbishop for leading the Table Mountain campaign. We won! Table Mountain is one of Seven Natural Wonders of the World.
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Future Farmers Foundation – Working Together for Agricultural Excellence

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Future Farmers Foundation selects young school leavers who are passionate about agriculture and trains them to become top commercial farm managers and farmers in their own right. The system is an apprenticeship system. The apprentices start at the bottom and gradually work their way up as they learn new skills. At the end of two years they are expected to have a working knowledge of all of the operations on the farm, including record keeping and labour management.

Throughout this period of time they have access to a mentor who gives them whatever support they may need.This may be in the form of encouragement and advice, or it may involve assisting them to resolve problems with their employer or other employees on the farms.

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Mossel Bay - New St. Blaize Trail Map Now Available

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A new and map of the St. Blaize Hiking Trail in Mossel Bay has been published by the Garden Route Casino Trust.

“The St. Blaize Trail is one of Mossel Bay’s most enduring attractions, and the Trust has been funding and facilitating rehabilitation work on it since 2008 for the benefit of the community and the natural environment,” said Mossel Bay Tourism’s Marcia Holm.

“The map was produced as part of Phase Four of the project by trustee Sandra Falanga, with the help of Lucretia van der Walt and the surveying firm of van der Walt & Visagie. 

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Are you a Glass-Half –Full or a Glass Half-Empty Kind of Person?

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By Justin Foxton

“I’ll tell you what we have to look forward to,” boomed my Uncle Reggie as he prepared to tee off on the third at Durban Country Club; “yet another year of electricity price hikes, corrupt politicians and a lack of service delivery.”

As I wandered the lush fairways listening to my Uncle bemoan the state of our nation, I considered our tendency to be a ‘glass-half-empty’ sort of people. Like Reggie, we spend a great deal of time discussing what is wrong with our country and comparatively little time celebrating what is good.

This is sad. In fact it is tragic.

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Sustaining the Wild Coast – No Toll Road, and Mines

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By Moray Combrink

Industrial development is in the pipeline. There is a proposal to mine titanium on this stretch of coast. Although a toll road through the Wild Coast and the mining are ostensibly two separate ventures, there are obvious links between the two. It won’t be possible to exploit the mineral deposits effectively without good road access, and while government denies that it wants the road in order to facilitate the mining, the coincidence is more than curious. 

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