BONUS - RUSTENBURG - Shavathon is in its 22nd year and 2024 is all about being ‘Colourfully Kind’. 
Your kindness when you participate by spraying your hair, shaving your head, or donating hair towards a wig, directly impacts how many cancer patients CANSA can reach with their care and support services.
Did You Know?
CANSA’s psychosocial support services, including individual counselling, support groups and Tele Counselling services in seven languages, and online support resources, are all freely available to cancer patients, caregivers and loved ones.

MEC Nono Maloyi (right) being sworn in as the Acting Premier of the North West by Judge President of the North West Division, Ronald Hendricks (left). In line with Chapter 6, Section 131(1)(a) of the Constitution of the Republic South Africa, Premier Kaobitsa Bushy Maape has appointed MEC Maloyi as the Acting Premier effective from 19 February 2024 to 10 March 2024.

As Acting Premier, MEC Maloyi will execute all responsibilities entrusted to him in line with the provisions of the Constitution.

BONUS - POTCHEFSTROOM - Copper and cable thieves should indeed think again before public/government infrastructure is looted - an offence that has grown into quite a lucrative industry in recent years. A 34-year-old Tebogo Simon Molapo was on Wednesday, 14 February 2024, sentenced by the Potchefstroom Regional Court to 12 years imprisonment for theft of copper cable.
Molapo's sentencing emanated from his arrest in the early hours of Sunday morning, 7 May 2023, for theft of copper cable in Dassierand, Potchefstroom. 

BONUS - RUSTENBURG - International Childhood Cancer Day is on 15 February, and Cupcakes of Hope (CoH) aims to raise R500 000 to significantly impact the lives of young cancer patients in need of financial assistance for their medical care.
CoH invites South Africans to contribute to their goal of giving hope for a better future by hosting or supporting a Party of Hope. You can set up a mini pop-up cupcake sale at your workplace, your child's school, during play dates, or even at weekend gatherings with friends.
The concept of Parties of Hope originated in 2014 when CoH founder, Sandy Cipriano, and her team expanded their vision beyond their initial September fundraising for International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, which includes National Cupcake Day.