SA INAUGURAL NATIONAL OCEAN FESTIVAL GETS UNDER WAY

Cape Town: 30 October 2015

The entrance to SA Ocean Festival at the foot of Table View Hotel at the V&A Waterfront at the Cape Town harbour.

Setting up site at V&A Waterfront for this weekend’s inaugural national Ocean Festival is virtually complete and baring Cape Town weather’s unpredictable stability, it’s literally all systems go from now on!

A scattered cloud cover with general bright weather marked by a gentle easterly breeze earlier this morning

Driven by the SA Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA), with partners Worldsport and bankrolled by oil and shipping black investment group, Calulo; the country’ newest festival will be the launch pad for a new comprehensive Marine Tourism and Leisure strategy planned to stimulate and draw investment to the country’s marine environment.

For more, go to http://www.oceanfestival.co.za

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SA Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) CEO Commander Tsietsi Mokhele (Right) with Media & Communications manager Tebogo Ramatjie and Executive Head assistant Charity Bodiba exiting the SABC's Sea Point studios after a live television interview early today. — SA Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) CEO Commander Tsietsi Mokhele (Right) with Media & Communications manager Tebogo Ramatjie and Executive Head assistant Charity Bodiba exiting the SABC’s Sea Point studios after a live television interview
early today.

SA university students a good deal to back

By Sicelo Fayo

There is barely gainsaying that this past week’s events at the country’s universities involving students waging a mighty battle for the suspension or reversal of proposed increases in fees for the 2016 academic year were certainly a source of major concern to especially parents and sponsors.

That the issue of increased fees would be of direct interest to them, possibly as a short term financial benefit, would not dissipate or arrest parents’ concerns both for the safety of the youths and their positive progress in their studies, which process would preferably entail partly, their successful sitting for and passing the current’s year’s exams. The very timing of the action, coming so close to year end exams, would worry parents most.

But as observers would testify, the action which saw the country universities’ students marching not only on Parliament but also on the seat of Government at the Union Buildings in Pretoria with much bravado; was not their only achievement, nor did it reflect wholly on the student’s general performance and achievements at campuses.

For more on this story, read here or for video footage of the awards ceremony, click here

From handouts to an ace student: A South Africa youth excels in maritime studies in Vietnam!

Pretoria: 19 October 2015

Cyril Zenzele Makukula of KwaZulu Natal ain’t no ordinary young person – at least not if his extremely poor background on the one hand, marked sharply by sheer desperation of a life survived wholly and literally on hand outs, and on the other; his current exceptional performance as a maritime studies student at a foreign university in South East Asia; are anything to go by!

Zenzele Cyril Makukula (Photo source: LinkedIn) — Zenzele Cyril Makukula (Photo source: LinkedIn page)

The contrasts could not be sharper for ordinary expectations, nor his current exceptional class achievements so far, readily predictably given the background.

Zenzele’s “sharper than a razor blade” story emerged from Hanoi this week after first year students’ final year-end results released by the Vietnam Maritime University’s International School of Education a week ago, showed that Zenzele emerged as South Africa’s top performing student in his class at the university where he passed with five (5) distinctions out of six modules he was enrolled for in the current year.

To read more: Click here

South Africa’s inaugural Ocean Festival heralds the country’s new marine sector tourism and leisure strategy!

PRETORIA: October 15, 2015

South Africa’s oceans are to take on a wholly new, exciting approach to recreation and leisure, and deliver a further much needed boost to national marine tourism business and investment with the launch in October of a national Ocean Festival in Cape Town.

The sea location at the port of Cape Town near V&A Waterfront where the inaugural SA Ocean Festival takes place at end of October 2015.

Initiated and driven by the SA Maritime Safety (SAMSA) Centre of Maritime Excellence together with partners, Worldsport and V&A Waterfront and backed by sponsors including investment firm, Calulo Group; the inaugural national Ocean Festival is the first of a series to be held annually, with plans to link it to the international Volvo Ocean Race every third year, and is aimed as a platform to further grow and expand the country’s marine tourism and leisure sector.

To read more… Click Here.