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Pageantry Meets Fashion
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Pageantry Meets Fashion

This year's pageant focused on the significance of happiness—exploring what it means to be happy, ways to achieve happiness, and how pageantry can help instill confidence in participants. Participants competed across four categories: Miss Little Happiness, Miss Teen Happiness, Mr. Happiness, and Miss Happiness. Mathapelo Anna Mahloko, the founder and organizer of the pageant, expressed her joy about the turnout and the active participation.

Michael Tamelinth • • 1 min read
Multisectoral GBVF Awareness held in Welkom
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Multisectoral GBVF Awareness held in Welkom

The programme was conducted under the theme “Letsema: Men, Women, Boys and Girls Working Together to END GBVF”, emphasising the importance of collective responsibility, community participation and collaboration in preventing and responding to gender-based violence and femicide. Representing SAPS Lejweleputswa District, Sergeant Malindi delivered a presentation on the process of opening a criminal case in relation to the reporting of GBVF-related incidents.

Michael Tamelinth • • 2 min read
Binyane Private Tutoring Gives back to Matric learners
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Binyane Private Tutoring Gives back to Matric learners

The initiative, which has become an annual tradition over the past three years, aims to motivate, encourage and support matric learners. The annual pen donation drive reflects BPTP’s belief that educational institutions have a responsibility to contribute meaningfully to the communities they serve.

Michael Tamelinth • • 1 min read