Thursday, 20 August 2026

Western Cape Infrastructure Minister Tertius Simmers said four MOUs from the inaugural infrastructure roundtable could unlock more than R20 billion in projects, backed by AI platform EVE and quarterly follow-ups.

Research from Cambridge was presented as showing all modern humans share deep African ancestry and that race-based thinking is “scientifically illiterate”, with hybridisation said to date back about 1.5 million years.

Priscilla Urquhart said Coca-Cola Peninsula Beverages has deliberately grown women into technical and leadership roles, with one of the highest female quotas in global Coca-Cola manufacturing and production.

Professor Breakfast called the AfriForum–March and March alliance a “marriage of inconvenience”, saying both groups use politics of binarism and may be chasing leverage more than true ideological convergence.

Former provincial police commissioner Leonard Max traced his rise from farm labourer with a standard six to lieutenant general, saying education and refusal to accept poverty as destiny defined his life.