BONUS - RUSTENBURG - The NW province is again making headlines for all the wrong reasons with the highest unemployment rate in the country.
Unemployment does not only affect households and buying power, but also has a significant negative impact on the economic growth in our province. Yet another 12 000 North West residents join the unemployment queue between Quarter 1 and Quarter 2 of 2024, with the official rate at 41,3%, being the highest in the country.
Olympian Elroy Gelant confirmed for Absa Run Your City Tshwane 10K
BONUS - RUSTENBURG - Olympian Elroy Gelant will bring his star power to the Absa Run Your City Tshwane 10K on Sunday, 25 August 2024.
While reflecting on his Olympic performance, Elroy Gelant highlighted the Absa Run Your City Series as a crucial factor in his remarkable showing at the Games. Competing in his third Olympics in Paris, the 37-year-old clocked an impressive 2:09:07 on Saturday, 10 August, securing a celebrated 11th place finish—the best by a South African man since Josiah Thugwane's gold medal victory at the Atlanta Games in 1996.
Teams SA comes home with six Olympic medals in the bag
BONUS - RUSTENBURG - Perhaps not the greatest achievement for an African country to date, but still a quite deserving performance by South African athletes, which is more than enough reason for a proper celebration!
This is what many South African sports authorities are saying after Team South Africa managed to bag six medals at the 2024 Olympic Games in the French capital over the past two weeks.
Fifty times a donor!
BONUS - RUSTENBURG - Hilary Clinton famously said: "Do all the good you can, for all the people you can, in all the ways you can, for as long as you can." Not all of us can be heroes in the traditional sense of the word, but we can all make a difference in the lives of others. The South African National Blood Service (SANBS) is calling on the public to make a difference by becoming voluntary blood donors. It is shocking that less than 1% of South Africans donate blood, when every one person that donates, can save up to three lives.
The Marakanelo Airshow & Careers Exhibition - an event that could could change your life
BONUS - RUSTENBURG - What have you and your family planned for the week of 13 to 17 August 2024? Well, you'll probably have to cancel as Rustenburg is about the see an Airshow of unprecedented scale at the Rustenburg Aerodrome which will see kids and many adults leaving the show with new dreams of future careers in their eyes.
But wait, there's more - the Airshow on Saturday, 17 August, will be preceded by a large-scale Careers Exhibition Sessions with quite a variety of some of the most exciting careers you could dream about!
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