PETRONAS, the national energy conglomerate, recently awarded its education sponsorships to high-achieving Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) students from all over Malaysia under its Powering Knowledge programme.
In a boost to the economy and in a bid to create employment, the Social Employment Fund (SEF) has in just over a year created more than 50,000 temporary jobs with at least 2,000 Makhanda residents benefiting from the project.
Arts and cultural workers fear being blacklisted and denied financial support by funding agencies for speaking out about maladministration in the sector, a new study has found.
KOI Zi Kang beamed with pride as he spoke about his internship experience six years ago with the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One (F1) team at Brackley, England, home to the eight-time Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) F1 World Champions.
It taken almost a year, two sessions in the high court and one in the Supreme Court of Appeal – which is likely to come at a heavy cost to the taxpayer – for the National Arts Council to finally agree to meet its contractual undertaking to fund the National Arts Festival to the tune of R8m. The money will benefit hundreds of struggling artists in the Eastern Cape and elsewhere who have battled to find any work since the Covid-19 pandemic reached South Africa’s shores in 2019.