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Saturday’s weather: It will be a cool to warm start to the weekend

Saturday’s conditions will be mainly cool to warm, according to the South African Weather Service. Impact based warning There is a yellow level 2 warning for disruptive rain resulting in localised flooding to susceptible informal settlements and roads, low-lying areas and bridges as well as traffic disruptions due to slippery roads in places in the …

Saturday’s conditions will be mainly cool to warm, according to the South African Weather Service.

Impact based warning

There is a yellow level 2 warning for disruptive rain resulting in localised flooding to susceptible informal settlements and roads, low-lying areas and bridges as well as traffic disruptions due to slippery roads in places in the eastern half of the Eastern Cape, Free State, southern parts of the North West, eastern parts of the Northern Cape and the central and the southern areas of KwaZulu-Natal.

The weather in your province

It will be partly cloudy and warm, with isolated showers and thundershowers in Gauteng, but scattered in the south from the afternoon.

The expected UVB sunburn index is extreme.

Mpumalanga will be cloudy and warm, but cool over the highveld.

Isolated showers and thundershowers are possible, except the lowveld.

Limpopo will be partly cloudy to cloudy and warm.

In the North West, it will be partly cloudy and warm, with scattered showers and thundershowers, but isolated in the north-east.

It will be warm in the north in the Free State, otherwise partly cloudy and cool, with scattered showers and thundershowers.

The Northern Cape will be cool in the south-east, otherwise partly cloudy and warm, with isolated showers and thundershowers in the east, but scattered in the extreme.

The wind along the coast will be strong southerly to south-easterly, reaching near gale in the afternoon.

The Western Cape will be fine and cool to warm.

The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh south-easterly, but strong along the west coast. 

The expected UVB sunburn index is extreme.

In the western half of the Eastern Cape, it will be cloudy and cool south of the escarpment, with light showers east of Cradock and Woody Cape.

The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh easterly to south-easterly.

The eastern half of the Eastern Cape will be cloudy, with rain and scattered showers.

The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh easterly to south-easterly.

KwaZulu-Natal will be cloudy and cool, but cold in the south-west, with scattered showers and thundershowers, but widespread in the south. It will be isolated in the extreme north-east.

The wind along the coast will be moderate southerly to south-easterly.

The expected UVB sunburn index is moderate.

Click here to see the specific forecast for your city over the next few days.

– Compiled by Kamva Somdyala

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Why South Africa should be your first holiday of 2021

The rain came down strong and steady in what was otherwise a mild Cape winter, washing away the fear, the smell of sanitiser. It filled the dams, the wet earth spawning the best wild-flower season in living memory. We endured one of the world’s toughest lockdowns but emerged blinking in the September sun, at Level …

The rain came down strong and steady in what was otherwise a mild Cape winter, washing away the fear, the smell of sanitiser. It filled the dams, the wet earth spawning the best wild-flower season in living memory. We endured one of the world’s toughest lockdowns but emerged blinking in the September sun, at Level 1.

It takes courage to make the long haul south. It’s also important to check the latest travel advice and be aware that, although international flights to South Africa has resumed, there are currently restrictions on travel from countries which the South African authorities consider to be high risk. This includes the UK, with travel for tourism or leisure from the UK prohibited unless you intend to stay in South Africa for three months or more. 

However, once those restrictions have passed (and ministers this week said they were hopeful of an easing of the rules by December), the rewards will be great: this is Big Nature country, with space that encourages you to exhale – no cliché, when breathing has become so fraught. Cape Town has always been a draw, but the proximity of its wilderness – the mountainous spine of Table Mountain National Park that runs the length of its peninsula, the golden kelp forests that sway beneath the Atlantic – has never mattered more.

The city offers a springboard into outdoor experiences, from walking the Kogelberg, in all its complex biodiversity, to swimming with flamingos in Langebaan lagoon; from diving into spring-fed pools fringed with palmiet to sleeping under black heavens dusted with a million stars in the Cederberg.

Hiking in the Cederberg

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With the new challenges of travel, it makes sense to stay longer. Hire a car and meander from the Cape to the Camdeboo, staying in remote cottages and welcoming guesthouses (with protocols in place, of course). Or make yourself at home in the terroir of your choice, living like a local, wine-tasting on foot.

If you’ve dreamt of going on safari, 2021 is the year to book, with rates frozen, long stays incentivised and exclusive-use options for families and small groups. With more time, there is no reason to fly domestically – roads are mostly excellent. If you prefer, hire a high-clearance camper and plot a route that never touches tar. Trawl for art and experiences you can’t Instagram.

With the exchange rate at 21 rand to the pound, all this will be possible once restrictions lift. If we have learnt one thing this year, it is to be present. Make it somewhere extraordinary. 

The penguins of Boulders Beach

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South Africa in 2021

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Meet the young South African woman defying the odds in the name of wine

Kiara Scott ticks a lot of firsts. She is not only a woman working as a senior winemaker in South Africa (unusual in itself) but at 27 is one of the youngest.

The perfect holiday in South Africa – our ultimate two-week itinerary

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Food, wine and natural wonders on South Africa’s greatest road trip

In addition to its world-class wines, this fabled region in South Africa offers a true taste of the country at roadside stalls along the way.

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China’s Leaders Can’t Be Trusted by Chris Patten

Chris Patten, you can’t set foot on China after writing this article, if your legal arguments regarding HK’s national security law are true. Thanks for the sacrifize, although I suspect you have been on Beijing’s undesirables list for a long time now. Speaking of which, Charles Chaplin, a good man and among Hollywood’s founding fathers, …

Chris Patten, you can’t set foot on China after writing this article, if your legal arguments regarding HK’s national security law are true. Thanks for the sacrifize, although I suspect you have been on Beijing’s undesirables list for a long time now.

Speaking of which, Charles Chaplin, a good man and among Hollywood’s founding fathers, had the exact same problem with Washington, and couldn’t visit his former California home for 30 years. The same happenned to Garcia Marquez, a man whose genius and good heart can best be understood by reading his Nobel acceptance speech, a masterpiece of decency as much as literature.

Indeed Beijing’s word is worthless: they promised not to militarize the South China Sea islands they occupied by sheer reason of their strength disregarding the court won rights of all other claimants. Very true, but it is aslo true and far more consequential that Washington and the Five Eyes compact promised, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, not to advance NATO military positions towards Russia. Guess what: they included all of Eastern Europe in NATO, even the Baltic states, and there is talk of including Ukraine and Georgia, Zimmerman-telegram like, as soon as the relative positions of strength allow it.

Beijing is killing Democracy in Hong Kong. It is, they don’t want the example of a different and probably better way of organizing a society to spread and diminish their control over 1,300 million Chinese. I would add the not unimportant footnote that when HK was a British Colony, you could have introduced universal suffrage and built a truly vibrant democracy there, that would have been far more difficult to extinguish now. You settled for transferring to China a city state with no real Democracy at the voting booth but where many other civil rights were respected. But you know fully well that by denying the most fundamental right, the right to vote, all other rights are just government concessions, granted by a ruler, not exercised by a sovereign populace. In HK, Beijing is doing today what London did a few decades ago, after WWII, when White Hall mandarins had a set of ideas not dissimilar to that of the real mandarins of today’s Zhongnanhai.

As for discouraging the example of competing worldviews from spreading, two million Vietnamese, one million Indonesians and untold millions in South East Asia, Latin America and other continents the enumeration of which would be rather long, have paid with their lives the price to organize themselves in ways discouraged by brute force by Washington and London. Some won anyway, after unimaginable suffering, like Vietnam. Most did not, and are still purposefully and eternally failed governments, such as almost all of Latin America. The rape of Central Asian tribes by Beijing is just another drop in a sea of injustice and oppression of the weak by the strong, and you, dear Patten, have been born, lived and worked for the power circles of the latter, not the former.

In sum, Beijing is slowly starting to do today what London and Washington have previously done with abandoned profusion. All three did or do it because they can.

It is the instinct of all well-intentioned, freedom loving people, yourself perhaps to whatever degree included, to build a better future world in which nobody can force others into submission.

Now, China has a population equal to thrice that of the anglosphere, IQ levels 5 points ahead and access to the contiguous natural resources of most of Asia, including the lands of the former Soviet Union, practically all of which supports China just for geo-balancing reasons. Even if China is blockaded by sea, a risky proposition, they can shelter in their large Asian hinterland and keep on growing in technology and power and nobody, short of nuclear Armageddon, can do anything about it. The day China arrives at the relatively modest level of income per capita in nominal dollars its estranged province of Taiwan has, its GDP will be equal to that of the USA and the EU combined. That is nominal. PPP China’s economy is already 37% larger than America’s and it shows in many tangibles: China produces 25 times more cement than the US and 247 times more than the UK; 11 times more steel than the US…China is still a developing nation with nominal GDP per capita around $10,000, the world average, but the way it has been growing the last decade it will catch up with Taiwan in twenty years. By that time, China’s GDP PPP will be equal to that of the USA, the EU, Japan, India, Russia and Brazil combined. A unipolar moment if there ever was one.

London abused its imperial power until the mid- XX century, Washington abused even more its imperial power afterwards, perhaps simply because evolving technology allowed for stronger degrees of coercion; China, today a deliverer of the Third World much to the dismay of the receding anglosphere, will in due time be as harsh or harsher a master than the previous hegemons were, since technological “advances” will yet again allow for ever increasing powers of the few over the many, as we are all seeing even in the relatively unconnected, legacy world of today, A.D. 2020. A truly nightmarish mixture or 1984 and A Brave New World with Chinese characteristics awaits us, unless we start building a better future right now, and it won’t come easy even under the best scenarios.

The solution offered by the rulers of today, of which Patten has been one until just yesterday, is to fight under the command of today’s hegemon against the rise of the hegemon of tomorrow. That is historically suicidal, for the poor souls who buy such propaganda as well as for humankind as a whole. One doesn’t need to be Arnold Toynbee to see that the current Hegemon will eventually decay from the inside and fall as all previous Empires have, and just a glance at the Trump-Biden debate of two days ago in the fight to sleep on the bed once occupied by FDR, Lincoln or Jefferson, proves the point sufficiently. And vice-versa, rising Hegemons have a life of their own: Spain rose in the XV and XVI century and there was nothing the Turks, France or the at the time second-tier England could do to stop such a rise. When the English rose in the XIX century at the hands of the industrial revolution, there was nothing imperial China or Mogul India could do to prevent them. Then came the time to play “if you can’t beat them, join them” as London saw that the small American plantations had bloomed into the greatest Hegemon of today, but naturally not the last in human history.

The Foreign office tried to contain Berlin since the 1890s. Look at the result: after two World Wars and plenty of terrible upheavals, the Germans today have an economy and population far larger than Britain’s, and they are the leaders, sought or unsought, of Europe (and well behaved at that), while the UK is sneaking out to live on the margins of the Continent to which it belongs, after playing that swan’s song of an Opera Buffa called Brexit.
Nations rise and fall; to prevent them from doing so is probably as beyond our powers as stopping growth and aging in our bodies or reversing entropy. China is a bona fide rising nation right now: it is not only its phenomenal rags to riches story, but the way they are sending out their people to learn from the world and use it for their own ends. If the Soviets had allowed the kind of open borders and international student trips China has today, millions would have left never to return. Not the case with China now. Great growing nations see their best go out to conquer the world on their own, militarily or economically. It was the case of the Spanish and Portuguese Conquistardors; Clive, Rhodes and the British Industrialists; the American businessmen and inventors of the XX century, and now, rising by the year, the Chinese builders and traders.

If the US, “allied” with some misguided followers, tries to “isolate” China, all it will accomplish is for China to keep on rising within its gigantic East Asian sphere of influence, and on current socio-economic and technological arrangements, China will simply completely catch up first and then surpass in probably unwelcomed and paradigmatic-changing ways both the US and Europe. Finally they will come out of their cocoon ready to devour the planet, or at least abuse it one order of magnitude above what the Americans did, who were themselves far more powerful and abusive than the British, who were worse than the Spanish, all not solely owing to characteristics of their inner souls, but mostly because of the increasingly phenomenal technological advances at their disposal.

I see one way to preempt this debacle. I understand many in Washington and London will not like it, but things are what they are. The current world hierarchy is, as has often been the case, based on who “owns” the technological ecosystems capable of producing eh….to be continued

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China’s Leaders Can’t Be Trusted by Chris Patten

Chris Patten, you can’t set foot on China after writing this article, if your legal arguments regarding HK’s national security law are true. Thanks for the sacrifize, although I suspect you have been on Beijing’s undesirables list for a long time now. Speaking of which, Charles Chaplin, a good man and among Hollywood’s founding fathers, …

Chris Patten, you can’t set foot on China after writing this article, if your legal arguments regarding HK’s national security law are true. Thanks for the sacrifize, although I suspect you have been on Beijing’s undesirables list for a long time now.

Speaking of which, Charles Chaplin, a good man and among Hollywood’s founding fathers, had the exact same problem with Washington, and couldn’t visit his former California home for 30 years. The same happenned to Garcia Marquez, a man whose genius and good heart can best be understood by reading his Nobel acceptance speech, a masterpiece of decency as much as literature.

Indeed Beijing’s word is worthless: they promised not to militarize the South China Sea islands they occupied by sheer reason of their strength disregarding the court won rights of all other claimants. Very true, but it is aslo true and far more consequential that Washington and the Five Eyes compact promised, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, not to advance NATO military positions towards Russia. Guess what: they included all of Eastern Europe in NATO, even the Baltic states, and there is talk of including Ukraine and Georgia, Zimmerman-telegram like, as soon as the relative positions of strength allow it.

Beijing is killing Democracy in Hong Kong. It is, they don’t want the example of a different and probably better way of organizing a society to spread and diminish their control over 1,300 million Chinese. I would add the not unimportant footnote that when HK was a British Colony, you could have introduced universal suffrage and built a truly vibrant democracy there, that would have been far more difficult to extinguish now. You settled for transferring to China a city state with no real Democracy at the voting booth but where many other civil rights were respected. But you know fully well that by denying the most fundamental right, the right to vote, all other rights are just government concessions, granted by a ruler, not exercised by a sovereign populace. In HK, Beijing is doing today what London did a few decades ago, after WWII, when White Hall mandarins had a set of ideas not dissimilar to that of the real mandarins of today’s Zhongnanhai.

As for discouraging the example of competing worldviews from spreading, two million Vietnamese, one million Indonesians and untold millions in South East Asia, Latin America and other continents the enumeration of which would be rather long, have paid with their lives the price to organize themselves in ways discouraged by brute force by Washington and London. Some won anyway, after unimaginable suffering, like Vietnam. Most did not, and are still purposefully and eternally failed governments, such as almost all of Latin America. The rape of Central Asian tribes by Beijing is just another drop in a sea of injustice and oppression of the weak by the strong, and you, dear Patten, have been born, lived and worked for the power circles of the latter, not the former.

In sum, Beijing is slowly starting to do today what London and Washington have previously done with abandoned profusion. All three did or do it because they can.

It is the instinct of all well-intentioned, freedom loving people, yourself perhaps to whatever degree included, to build a better future world in which nobody can force others into submission.

Now, China has a population equal to thrice that of the anglosphere, IQ levels 5 points ahead and access to the contiguous natural resources of most of Asia, including the lands of the former Soviet Union, practically all of which supports China just for geo-balancing reasons. Even if China is blockaded by sea, a risky proposition, they can shelter in their large Asian hinterland and keep on growing in technology and power and nobody, short of nuclear Armageddon, can do anything about it. The day China arrives at the relatively modest level of income per capita in nominal dollars its estranged province of Taiwan has, its GDP will be equal to that of the USA and the EU combined. That is nominal. PPP China’s economy is already 37% larger than America’s and it shows in many tangibles: China produces 25 times more cement than the US and 247 times more than the UK; 11 times more steel than the US…China is still a developing nation with nominal GDP per capita around $10,000, the world average, but the way it has been growing the last decade it will catch up with Taiwan in twenty years. By that time, China’s GDP PPP will be equal to that of the USA, the EU, Japan, India, Russia and Brazil combined. A unipolar moment if there ever was one.

London abused its imperial power until the mid- XX century, Washington abused even more its imperial power afterwards, perhaps simply because evolving technology allowed for stronger degrees of coercion; China, today a deliverer of the Third World much to the dismay of the receding anglosphere, will in due time be as harsh or harsher a master than the previous hegemons were, since technological “advances” will yet again allow for ever increasing powers of the few over the many, as we are all seeing even in the relatively unconnected, legacy world of today, A.D. 2020. A truly nightmarish mixture or 1984 and A Brave New World with Chinese characteristics awaits us, unless we start building a better future right now, and it won’t come easy even under the best scenarios.

The solution offered by the rulers of today, of which Patten has been one until just yesterday, is to fight under the command of today’s hegemon against the rise of the hegemon of tomorrow. That is historically suicidal, for the poor souls who buy such propaganda as well as for humankind as a whole. One doesn’t need to be Arnold Toynbee to see that the current Hegemon will eventually decay from the inside and fall as all previous Empires have, and just a glance at the Trump-Biden debate of two days ago in the fight to sleep on the bed once occupied by FDR, Lincoln or Jefferson, proves the point sufficiently. And vice-versa, rising Hegemons have a life of their own: Spain rose in the XV and XVI century and there was nothing the Turks, France or the at the time second-tier England could do to stop such a rise. When the English rose in the XIX century at the hands of the industrial revolution, there was nothing imperial China or Mogul India could do to prevent them. Then came the time to play “if you can’t beat them, join them” as London saw that the small American plantations had bloomed into the greatest Hegemon of today, but naturally not the last in human history.

The Foreign office tried to contain Berlin since the 1890s. Look at the result: after two World Wars and plenty of terrible upheavals, the Germans today have an economy and population far larger than Britain’s, and they are the leaders, sought or unsought, of Europe (and well behaved at that), while the UK is sneaking out to live on the margins of the Continent to which it belongs, after playing that swan’s song of an Opera Buffa called Brexit.
Nations rise and fall; to prevent them from doing so is probably as beyond our powers as stopping growth and aging in our bodies or reversing entropy. China is a bona fide rising nation right now: it is not only its phenomenal rags to riches story, but the way they are sending out their people to learn from the world and use it for their own ends. If the Soviets had allowed the kind of open borders and international student trips China has today, millions would have left never to return. Not the case with China now. Great growing nations see their best go out to conquer the world on their own, militarily or economically. It was the case of the Spanish and Portuguese Conquistardors; Clive, Rhodes and the British Industrialists; the American businessmen and inventors of the XX century, and now, rising by the year, the Chinese builders and traders.

If the US, “allied” with some misguided followers, tries to “isolate” China, all it will accomplish is for China to keep on rising within its gigantic East Asian sphere of influence, and on current socio-economic and technological arrangements, China will simply completely catch up first and then surpass in probably unwelcomed and paradigmatic-changing ways both the US and Europe. Finally they will come out of their cocoon ready to devour the planet, or at least abuse it one order of magnitude above what the Americans did, who were themselves far more powerful and abusive than the British, who were worse than the Spanish, all not solely owing to characteristics of their inner souls, but mostly because of the increasingly phenomenal technological advances at their disposal.

I see one way to preempt this debacle. I understand many in Washington and London will not like it, but things are what they are. The current world hierarchy is, as has often been the case, based on who “owns” the technological ecosystems capable of producing eh….to be continued

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South Africa: Karoo Towns Willowmore, Steyterville and Jansenville in the Dark As Municipality Can’t Pay R12-Million Electricity Bill

Eskom has implemented extensive power cuts in three Karoo towns falling under the Dr Beyers Naudé Local Municipality after the municipality failed to adhere to a payment plan to cover R127-million in debt to the power utility. The municipality was expected to go to court this week to ward off even longer power cuts, lasting …

Eskom has implemented extensive power cuts in three Karoo towns falling under the Dr Beyers Naudé Local Municipality after the municipality failed to adhere to a payment plan to cover R127-million in debt to the power utility. The municipality was expected to go to court this week to ward off even longer power cuts, lasting up to 14 hours a day, as Eskom plans to ramp up pressure.

Three Karoo towns are facing daily power outages of more than six hours after the Dr Beyers Naudé Local Municipality failed to adhere to a payment plan to cover its R127-million debt to Eskom. The municipality cannot afford the R12-million monthly payment, according to the mayor, Deon de Vos, who was locked out of his office in Willowmore on Monday by angry residents. Earlier this year the municipality stated in a presentation to Parliament that its monthly bill for salaries was R13-million.

Willowmore, Steyterville and Jansenville are now without electricity daily from 6am to 9am and again from 5pm to 8.30pm, with cuts of 14 hours at a time to be implemented by next week if no agreement can be reached.

In a statement, De Vos said the municipality had experienced financial…

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South Africa: Karoo Towns Willowmore, Steyterville and Jansenville in the Dark As Municipality Can’t Pay R12-Million Electricity Bill

Eskom has implemented extensive power cuts in three Karoo towns falling under the Dr Beyers Naudé Local Municipality after the municipality failed to adhere to a payment plan to cover R127-million in debt to the power utility. The municipality was expected to go to court this week to ward off even longer power cuts, lasting …

Eskom has implemented extensive power cuts in three Karoo towns falling under the Dr Beyers Naudé Local Municipality after the municipality failed to adhere to a payment plan to cover R127-million in debt to the power utility. The municipality was expected to go to court this week to ward off even longer power cuts, lasting up to 14 hours a day, as Eskom plans to ramp up pressure.

Three Karoo towns are facing daily power outages of more than six hours after the Dr Beyers Naudé Local Municipality failed to adhere to a payment plan to cover its R127-million debt to Eskom. The municipality cannot afford the R12-million monthly payment, according to the mayor, Deon de Vos, who was locked out of his office in Willowmore on Monday by angry residents. Earlier this year the municipality stated in a presentation to Parliament that its monthly bill for salaries was R13-million.

Willowmore, Steyterville and Jansenville are now without electricity daily from 6am to 9am and again from 5pm to 8.30pm, with cuts of 14 hours at a time to be implemented by next week if no agreement can be reached.

In a statement, De Vos said the municipality had experienced financial…

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PAN AFRICAN RESOURCES PLC – Notice of annual general meeting and no change statement – SENS

Notice of annual general meeting and no change statement Pan African Resources PLC (Incorporated and registered in England and Wales under Companies Act 1985 with registered number 3937466 on 25 February 2000) Share code on AIM: PAF Share code on JSE: PAN ADR ticker code: PAFRY ISIN: GB0004300496 (Pan African or the Company) Notice of …

                            
Notice of annual general meeting and no change statement


Pan African Resources PLC

(Incorporated and registered in England and Wales

under Companies Act 1985 with registered number

3937466 on 25 February 2000)

Share code on AIM: PAF

Share code on JSE: PAN

ADR ticker code: PAFRY

ISIN: GB0004300496

(Pan African or the Company)


Notice of annual general meeting and no change statement


Notice of annual general meeting


Notice is hereby given that the 2020 annual general meeting (AGM) of Pan African will be held electronically

on Thursday, 26 November 2020 at 11:00 am (all times stated are United Kingdom times, unless otherwise

stated).


Shareholders are advised that the notice of AGM, including the abridged audited annual financial statements

for the year ended 30 June 2020, will be distributed to shareholders on Wednesday, 28 October 2020.


Shareholders are advised that the Company’s Integrated Annual Report, audited annual financial statements

and notice of AGM for the year ended 30 June 2020 are available at

https://www.panafricanresources.com/investors/financial-reports/


Attendance and representation at the AGM for shareholders on the South African register


The restrictions which have been put in place under Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 in

response to COVID-19 means that shareholders’ rights are restricted to voting at the AGM, with no right of

attendance. You are therefore encouraged to appoint the chairman of the AGM as your proxy. If you appoint

any person other than the chairman of the AGM as your proxy, that person may not be allowed to attend the

AGM.


If you wish to attend the audio webcast, then you will need to contact your broker or CSDP who will request

log in and pin number details via a letter of representation from Computershare Investor Services Proprietary

Limited, The Towers, 15 Biermann Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa (Private Bag X9000,

Saxonwold 2132, South Africa) or email proxy@computershare.co.za to allow you to enter the audio webcast

and listen and ask questions at the AGM. Please note that you will need to request this at least 72 hours before

the AGM, that being by 11:00 am on Monday, 23 November 2020.


Attendance and representation at the AGM for shareholders on the United Kingdom register


The restrictions which have been put in place under Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 in

response to COVID-19 means that shareholders’ rights are restricted to voting at the AGM, with no right of

attendance. You are therefore encouraged to appoint the chairman of the AGM as your proxy. If you appoint

any person other than the chairman of the AGM as your proxy, that person may not be allowed to attend the

AGM.


In order to join the AGM electronically and ask questions via the platform, shareholders will need to connect

to https://web.lumiagm.com a mobile web client, compatible with the latest browser versions of Chrome,

Firefox, Internet Explorer 11 (Internet Explorer V10 and lower are not supported), Edge and Safari and can be

accessed using any web browser, on a PC or smartphone device.


Alternatively, you can download the latest version of the Lumi AGM App (the App) onto your smartphone

device. This is available in native app format (Android and iOS only) and can be downloaded from the Google

Play Store™ Market or the Apple® App Store by searching by app name ‘Lumi AGM’.


Further details on how to join the AGM electronically can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting.


No change statement


The audited annual financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2020 and the auditor’s report thereon

contain no modifications to the information contained in the provisional summarised audited results for the

year ended 30 June 2020 published on SENS on Wednesday, 16 September 2020.


Salient dates relevant to the AGM


                                                                                                   2020

 The record date for the purpose of determining which shareholders are                      Friday, 16 October

 entitled to receive the convening notice of the AGM

 Last day to trade in the Company’s shares in order to be recorded as a                     Tuesday, 17 November

 shareholder on the Company’s South African register by the voting

 record date

 The record date to determine which shareholders on the Company’s                           Friday, 20 November

 South African register are entitled to participate in and vote at the AGM

 (by close of business)

 Proxy instructions to be received by the Company’s South African                           Tuesday, 24 November

 Transfer Secretaries or United Kingdom Registrars by no later than 11:00

 AGM                                                                                        Thursday, 26 November

 Results of AGM released on SENS/RNS on or about                                            Thursday, 26 November


Johannesburg

28 October 2020


Corporate information


CORPORATE OFFICE                                   REGISTERED OFFICE

The Firs Office Building, 2nd Floor, Office 204    Suite 31

Corner Cradock and Biermann Avenues, Rosebank,     Second Floor, 107 Cheapside London

Johannesburg                                       EC2V 6DN

South Africa                                       United Kingdom

Office: +27 (0) 11 243 2900                        Office: +44 (0) 20 7796 8644


CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER                            FINANCIAL DIRECTOR

Cobus Loots                                        Deon Louw

Pan African Resources PLC                          Pan African Resources PLC

Office: +27 (0) 11 243 2900                        Office: +27 (0) 11 243 2900


COMPANY SECRETARY                                  NOMINATED ADVISER  JOINT BROKER

Phil Dexter / Jane Kirton                          Ross Allister / David McKeown

St James’s Corporate Services Limited              Peel Hunt LLP

Office: +44 (0) 20 7796 8644                       Office: +44 (0) 20 7418 8900


JSE SPONSOR                                        JOINT BROKER

Ciska Kloppers                                     Thomas Rider / Neil Elliot

Questco Corporate Advisory Proprietary Limited     BMO Capital Markets Limited

Office: +27 (0) 11 011 9200                        Office: +44 (0) 20 7236 1010


HEAD: INVESTOR RELATIONS

Hethen Hira

Pan African Resources PLC

Office: +27 (0) 11 243 2900


Date: 28-10-2020 09:00:00

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A locust outbreak in the Karoo has a hungry South Africa on edge

If the outbreak in the Karoo gets too large, it’ll travel to the maize fields in the Free State, warns Professor Frances Duncan. While a pandemic sweeps the globe, food security in much of Africa is being threatened by a plague of biblical proportions. Swathes of Southern Africa have been hit; about seven million people …

If the outbreak in the Karoo gets too large, it’ll travel to the maize fields in the Free State, warns Professor Frances Duncan.

While a pandemic sweeps the globe, food security in much of Africa is being threatened by a plague of biblical proportions.

Swathes of Southern Africa have been hit; about seven million people in Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe have been affected.

Now, authorities in the Eastern Cape are ringing the alarm bells while maize fields in the Free State are under threat.

Lester Kiewit asked Professor Frances Duncan (Wits’ School of Animal Plant and Environmental Sciences) why swarms of brown locusts are destroying crops.

In a nutshell, unusual climatic conditions are driving two unrelated outbreaks.

‘Plague’ is a colloquial term meaning the locusts are huge and spread over a vast area… The locusts coming down from North Africa… there are millions of them covering several countries – it’s a plague…

Professor Frances Duncan, School of Animal Plant and Environmental Sciences – Wits

The brown locust outbreak in the Karoo… if it gets too large, it’ll travel to the maize fields in the Free State.

Professor Frances Duncan, School of Animal Plant and Environmental Sciences – Wits

The eggs can stay dormant in the soil for three to five years, waiting for the rains to come.

Professor Frances Duncan, School of Animal Plant and Environmental Sciences – Wits

Listen to the interview in the audio below.


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Cradock residents want councillors fired as Hawks probe R26m graft claim

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‘One of the great experiences’: Griff Rhys Jones on exploring South Africa by rail

Griff Rhys Jones talks to Adrian Bridge about the highlights of his rail journeys across South Africa It doesn’t take Griff Rhys Jones long to get into his stride. “If you want to see the glories of Africa, there’s no better way than taking a train in South Africa!” And he should know. While making …

Griff Rhys Jones talks to Adrian Bridge about the highlights of his rail journeys across South Africa

It doesn’t take Griff Rhys Jones long to get into his stride. “If you want to see the glories of Africa, there’s no better way than taking a train in South Africa!” And he should know. While making a series of programmes about travelling through the entire continent by train, he had a number of rail adventures in the Rainbow Nation, and they weren’t confined to the luxury options so beloved of tourists – the legendary Rovos Rail and Blue Train.

“Most of those I travelled on were public trains,” he says cheerily. “We took a night train from Johannesburg to Kimberley and for me that was one of the great experiences. 

“We did stand out, though. A lot of people wondered what we were doing on board.” 

Rhys Jones was there to tell stories about South Africa: about the extraordinary discovery of diamonds in Kimberley and gold further on – the foundation of the country’s immense wealth; about how farmers here became so expert at plucking ostrich feathers; about the apartheid era and about the history of the railway itself in this part of the world – a story that dates back to colonial times and the vision of Cecil Rhodes (“Now discredited, I know, I know”) to build a line from Cape Town to Cairo.

“The idea was that people who were working in South Africa would be able to get on a train to Cairo and be home [in Britain] for Christmas, then take a steamer down to Cairo and be back in South Africa for the new year. 

Griff Rhys Jones on the drivers platform of an old African Steam Train

Credit:
CHRIS GIBBIONS

“That incredible journey started in South Africa with the train from Cape Town to Johannesburg and then up into Zimbabwe, through to the Victoria Falls and right up into Kenya.

“Travelling by train in South Africa confronts you with South Africa both as an incredible place, but also as a historical development.”

Like all travellers before him, Rhys Jones was palpably struck by the astonishing beauty of the country. “Some of the vistas in terms of the landscape are fixed in your mind forever because they are so majestic, so incredible. Think of the semi-arid Karoo desert and the beautiful garden landscapes around Cape Town. There you see you have entered a temperate world which bears resemblance to parts of Switzerland.”

It was on his way to Cape Town from Matjiesfontein that the actor, presenter and Sunday Telegraph columnist made his sole concession to luxury train travel by hopping aboard one of the signature Rovos Rail trains from Pretoria. 

“Oh yes, I went out to that open carriage at the back of the lovely green train and simply drank it all in – wonderful. It was also on that train that I was filmed scrubbing myself in a bath while we were passing through some of the townships and the less successful bits of South Africa. 

A Rovos Rail train

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“We wanted to experience all forms of train travel in the country and show some of its many sides.” Would he recommend it to readers of The Daily Telegraph? “Absolutely. South Africa is one of the few places on the continent where you can still experience the railway fully – in parts of central and east Africa it has been eclipsed by travel on the roads.”

Is there any particular favourite?

“If I were to go back with Mrs Jones, I wouldn’t mind travelling on the epic Rovos Rail journey from Cape Town to Dar es Salaam. I do love a good long-distance train journey…”

Griff Rhys Jones – Slow Train Through Africa is available on DVD (£14.99; amazon.co.uk).

Rovos Rail (rovos.com) offers a number of adventures by rail in South Africa and beyond, including a 15-day Cape Town to Dar es Salaam trip with fares from about US$12,000 (£9,125). 

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Brown locusts a big threat … if they reach flying stage, they will decimate cereal crops

The agriculture department was quick to act, putting systems in place to successfully manage the pests as state entomologists had been aware of the outbreak since March. Spraying with knapsacks and bakkie pump sprayers has already started and farmers are being trained, as guided by the Locust Policy of SA (1998). The eggs can stay …

The agriculture department was quick to act, putting systems in place to successfully manage the pests as state entomologists had been aware of the outbreak since March.

Spraying with knapsacks and bakkie pump sprayers has already started and farmers are being trained, as guided by the Locust Policy of SA (1998).

The eggs can stay dormant for up to 10 years, according to Stern, who said they only hatched when conditions were conducive.

“Such an outbreak is nature’s way of cleaning up with fresh growth.

“We could be in for some good summer rain.”

He said the situation was under control for now.

“But it is creating a lot of worry for many farmers.

“This all adds to the woes of farmers who are still grappling with a severe drought.”

Stern said the government was tackling the locust outbreak head-on, applauding the effort made by the department.

Graaff-Reinet farmer Peet van Heerden, who farms sheep, goats, cattle and lucerne, said parts of the veld on his farm looked like a river with the number of locusts scattered about.

“There are heaps and heaps of them, going at least 500mm deep,” he said.

He said once they started to fly, the situation would become far worse.

“They then start to lay eggs again.

“At the moment, they are small and it looks like black rivers flowing through the veld.”

He said a swarm could clear through 7,000 tons of dry matter in a day.

“That is about as heavy as 14 planes.

“They are like an oversized grass cutter.”

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South Africa’s greatest wildlife holidays, from Big Five safaris to desert drives

Two southern right whales wave a tail-fluke farewell (or so I like to imagine) as I tramp up from the beach. Day over, I think. But, as I fish for my car keys, a lithe feline form appears on the boardwalk ahead. A caracal – the mystery cat, my first in two decades of African …

Two southern right whales wave a tail-fluke farewell (or so I like to imagine) as I tramp up from the beach. Day over, I think. But, as I fish for my car keys, a lithe feline form appears on the boardwalk ahead. A caracal – the mystery cat, my first in two decades of African wildlife-watching. Tufted ears swivel and amber eyes lock briefly on to mine. It slips away into the dusk. Was it ever even there?

That was De Hoop Nature Reserve, 15 years ago: one among countless magical memories of South Africa’s wildlife. Others evoke wildly different landscapes: crouching with my armed guide in a Zululand thorn thicket as a black rhino huffs and puffs alarmingly close; lying out beneath Kalahari stars as lions moan from the surrounding dunes; cresting a Drakensberg escarpment to spy a bearded vulture soaring across the void below.

In 1994, celebrating its rebirth as a melting pot of colours and cultures, South Africa was dubbed the Rainbow Nation. An ecologist might choose another metaphor – the Mosaic Nation? – to celebrate the country’s natural diversity. For comparison, Australia and Brazil, each more than six times larger, have just seven major biomes (ecological regions) to South Africa’s eight. Its multi-hued ecological rainbow contains desert dunes, coral reefs, snow-dusted mountains, coastal heaths, semi-tropical forests and, of course, “bushveld” – that quintessentially African panorama of dust and thorns synonymous with safaris.

Each biome has its own wildlife, from the grand herds and rampant predators of Kruger Park to the oryx, cheetah and meerkats of the arid Kalahari. Birders, meanwhile, will find such gems as twinspots and trogons in Zululand’s unique dune forests, while marine wildlife buffs can enjoy the likes of breaching southern right whales and nesting loggerhead turtles around the endlessly unspooling coastline. Some of this biodiversity is unique to South Africa. The fynbos heathland of the Cape is one of only six recognised floral kingdoms in the world, with two thirds of its plant species endemic. Much of it is of critical international importance: this one nation now protects some 90 per cent of the planet’s remaining white rhinos.

The good news? It couldn’t be easier for visitors. South Africa virtually invented the big game park and, more recently, has pioneered game translocation, re-establishing historic wildlife communities in neglected areas. Today, an excellent infrastructure and hospitality industry lays all this on a plate. You can luxuriate in an exclusive bush lodge or simply drive yourself around in a hire car. Activities span walking safaris, mountain-bike trails and scuba diving. There are whale-watching cruises, birding tours, flower safaris and even frog safaris. And this is the only country in Africa where you can find the Big Five malaria-free.

There’s a high density of wild animals in Kruger National Park, including the Big Five

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SASIPA MUENNUCH

A nerdy totting-up of my own wildlife adventures in the Rainbow Nation reveals just how much you might see: I’ve clocked up more than 90 mammal species, for example, and nearly 550 birds. But the tallies don’t convey the memories: fresh lion prints at dawn on a Kruger trail; a golden cape cobra uncoiling over red Karoo dust; a day at Kosi Bay that began with flamingos and ended with dolphins. And I have barely scratched the surface.

Kalahari horizons

The Kalahari’s vast semi-arid expanse takes up much of Botswana but also spills over the border into north-west South Africa, offering special wildlife viewing with a unique ambience. After Christmas, new growth in the enormous Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (shared between the two nations) draws herds of oryx, springbok and other grazers, sustaining an impressive band of predators, including cheetahs, brown hyenas and the region’s famous black-maned lions. For birders, the dry riverbeds and dune ridges are a haven for raptors and desert specials such as sandgrouse. Private reserves such as Madikwe and Tswalu have restored other species to the mix, including wild dogs and black rhinos, and, from the comfort of exclusive lodges, offer a range of guided safari activities, including walking and horse riding. Local specialities here include meerkats, aardvarks and even pangolins. And the region is all malaria-free.

Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (sanparks.org)

Say it with flowers

Wildlife doesn’t have to move in order to be exciting. The Western and Northern Cape are home to some of the world’s most spectacular floral displays as well as a host of animals. In Namaqualand, towards the Namibian border, an explosion of spring annuals – including the likes of Namaqualand daisies and orange glories – carpets the arid terrain with colour. Whites, yellows and oranges dominate, punctuated with blues, reds and purples. Botanists will specifically seek out endemic pelargoniums and geophytes; others will just be blown away by nature’s outrageous palette. Beach Flower Camp and Skilpad Flower Camp in Namaqualand National Park, open for just four weeks during the August/September flower season, offer a complete immersion in this kaleidoscopic wonderland, with luxury tents, sea views and starry night skies.

Flower camps in Namaqualand National Park (flowercamps.co.za)

Namaqua National Park’s main attraction is the abundant spring bloom of brightly coloured wildflowers

Credit:
CLAUDIO VIDRI

Table-tops and penguins

South Africa’s Cape Peninsula is a world apart: it’s like a slice of the Mediterranean, in terms of both its climate and its landscape, affixed to the bottom of Africa. To some people, this means wine. To the wildlife lover, this Unesco World Heritage Site means unique natural riches – from the scented fynbos heathland, where endemic sugarbirds flit between blazing proteas, to the shallow, sheltered bays where southern right whales arrive during the winter months to rear their calves. Table Mountain National Park embraces both the iconic flat-top itself, where a hike to the summit may bring encounters with rock hyraxes or Verreaux’s eagles, and Cape Point, where rare bontebok graze the headlands and African penguins waddle out of the surf at Boulders Beach. Oh, and did I mention the wine?

Table Mountain hikes (capetown.travel)

Overlooked Overberg

Cape Town to Garden Route: it’s a time-honoured eastbound tourist itinerary. But what it often overlooks are the charms of the Overberg region, where the coast bulges south to form Africa’s southernmost tip. De Hoop Nature Reserve, at the eastern end, offers a beguiling combination of inland hiking trails and, from July to October, some of the world’s best land-based whale-watching as the southern rights arrive from Antarctica to breed in the sheltered bays. There’s no dangerous game to worry about – though the odd shy leopard reputedly roams – but you’ll see herds of bontebok, elands and Cape mountain zebras, elegant blue cranes and the Western Cape’s only colony of Cape vultures. Expect the unexpected: caracals, porcupines and an impressive 6ft mole snake all took me by surprise.

De Hoop Nature Reserve (capenature.co.za)

Penguins waddle out of the surf at Boulders Beach on the Cape Peninsula (also an amazing wine region)

Credit:
MIKE KOROSTELEV

Heartland haven

The ancient, semi-arid plains of the Great Karoo, in the Western Cape interior, once hosted some of the greatest animal migrations ever witnessed: herds of springbok millions strong took days to pass the town of Beaufort West. Sheep farming long ago replaced such spectacles, but in the Karoo National Park much of the region’s indigenous wildlife can still be seen. This is not Big Five country, although lions and black rhinos have been reintroduced, but rather a fascinating terrain of hidden details, where alongside desert-adapted grazers such as oryx and springbok, night drives may produce treats such as aardwolves or caracals. Accommodation is in charming Cape Dutch cottages, while activities include a network of 4×4 and mountain-bike trails. Keep an eye out for fossils.

Karoo National Park (sanparks.org)

Eastern elephants

When Addo Elephant National Park was declared in 1931, just 11 elephants remained, the beleaguered survivors of the hunting that had otherwise eradicated the great pachyderms from the Cape. Today that number has risen to 600, making for an impressive scrummage as they crowd into waterholes on a hot day. The reserve’s dense scrub is now also home to lions, buffaloes and black rhinos, restored by translocation to their former haunts, alongside plentiful other wildlife – right down to the endemic flightless dung beetle. Its boundaries have also been stretched to the coast, bringing within its protection whales, penguins and the world’s largest gannet colony. To the east, several private reserves, including the award-winning Shamwari, have introduced the luxury Big Five experience and nailed it, making this now one of the top safari regions in the country.

Addo Elephant National Park (sanparks.org)

Since it was formed in 1931, Addo Elephant National Park has seen numbers swell from just 11 of the creatures to over 600

Credit:
BENNY MARTY

Scale the peaks

Drakensberg means “dragon mountain”, and these formidable buttresses, squeezed between the Free State, KwaZulu-Natal and neighbouring Lesotho, do indeed suggest some mythical lost world beyond. Rising to more than 11,400ft – Africa’s highest point south of Kilimanjaro – the Drakensberg’s escarpment marks the south-eastern edge of South Africa’s central plateau. This is not safari country, being better known for its spectacular waterfalls and scenic splendours. A network of trails will produce such special upland birds as the bald ibis and bearded vulture, while elands and black wildebeest graze the slopes, and rarities such as otters may turn up. As with all mountains, come prepared.

Drakensberg information and hikes (drakensberg.org)

Rhinos on foot

Nothing quickens the pulse quite like a two-ton, two-horned behemoth blocking your path. The connected parks of Imfolozi and Hluhluwe, in KwaZulu-Natal, are synonymous with both white rhinos and walking safaris. The first, because it was here that the world’s second-largest land mammal – after elephants – rallied against impending extinction a century ago. The second, because this is where the wilderness trails concept evolved. Expect close encounters with white rhinos. Black rhinos, rarer and jumpier than their larger cousins, also thrive here, while elephants, buffaloes and lions are all present. The trails, which book up well in advance, are as much about wilderness immersion as big-game thrills. The camping is rustic; the guiding superb.

Imfolozi wilderness trails (kznwildlife.com)

Wetland wonders

In northern KwaZulu-Natal, iSimangaliso Wetland Park might have been designed to illustrate a biodiversity textbook. One of Africa’s largest coastal wetlands, this multifaceted reserve, proclaimed a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1999, protects an improbable richness of ecosystems, both freshwater and coastal. There are few places in Africa where you can cruise among hippos by pleasure boat and, within the hour, watch a humpback whale spouting off the beach. Add to that the prolific coral diversity along Africa’s southernmost reef, a tangle of semi-tropical dune forest with narina trogons and samango monkeys, beaches on which leatherback turtles lay their eggs, and savannah where elephants, giraffes and black rhinos roam, and you have a veritable wildlife world in one.

Biodiversity reigns supreme at iSimangaliso Wetland Park, and among the savannah you might find roaming black rhinos

Information and activities (isimangaliso.com)

Big country for big game

The Kruger is the jewel in South Africa’s wildlife crown: an Israel-sized national park, home to around 150 mammal species and more than 500 birds, with the bulk of Africa’s white rhinos and the continent’s third-largest lion population. Purists find the Kruger too developed, but its sheer size means space for all comers. This is indisputably Africa’s best A-list park for a budget, self-drive safari, with no need for a guide; equally, its private concessions harbour the likes of MalaMala and Singita, bywords for safari luxury.

Plan your self-drive safari (sanparks.org) or opt for private/guided options (krugerpark.co.za)

Mike Unwin is the author of Southern African Wildlife, published by Bradt Guides

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PAN AFRICAN RESOURCES PLC – Pan African to commence trading on OTCQX Market in the United States – SENS

Pan African to commence trading on OTCQX Market in the United States Pan African Resources PLC (Incorporated and registered in England and Wales under Companies Act 1985 with registered number 3937466 on 25 February 2000) Share code on AIM: PAF Share code on JSE: PAN ISIN: GB0004300496 ADR ticker code: PAFRY (“Pan African” or ‘the …

                            
Pan African to commence trading on OTCQX Market in the United States


Pan African Resources PLC

(Incorporated and registered in England and Wales under Companies Act 1985 with registered

number 3937466 on 25 February 2000)

Share code on AIM: PAF

Share code on JSE: PAN

ISIN: GB0004300496

ADR ticker code: PAFRY

(“Pan African” or ‘the Company’)


PAN AFRICAN TO COMMENCE TRADING ON OTCQX MARKET IN THE UNITED STATES


Pan African is pleased to announce that the Company’s American Depository Receipt (“ADR”)

programme has been upgraded and approved to trade on the OTCQX Best Market (“OTCQX Market”)

in the United States of America (“US”), with effect from 23 October 2020.


Pan African’s CEO, Cobus Loots said: “We are pleased to be admitted to the OTCQX Market, which is

the highest tier of the OTC market. To qualify, Pan African has complied with the OTCQX Market

requirements including high financial standards, corporate governance requirements, and

compliance with applicable securities laws. Trading on the OTCQX Market will significantly enhance

our visibility and provide better access to US investors”.


The Company was sponsored for OTCQX trade by MCAP LLC, a qualified third-party firm responsible

for providing guidance on OTCQX requirements and recommending membership. Pan African is

upgrading to the OTCQX Market from the Pink Over-the-Counter market and the ticker symbol

(PAFRY) remains unchanged.


The OTCQX Market is the premier tier of the US Over-the-Counter market that is operated by OTC

Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX:OTCM). OTCQX is a trading market designed for established, investor-

focused US and international companies. Current financial disclosures and Real-Time Level 2 quotes

for Pan African are available at www.otcmarkets.com.


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23 October 2020


For further information on Pan African, please visit the Company’s website at

www.panafricanresources.com


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Pan African Resources PLC

Head: Investor Relations

Tel: + 27 (0)11 243 2900

E-mail: hhira@paf.co.za


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Your weather update: Heatwave, thundershowers headline Friday’s conditions

While Friday will be mainly hot, there will be severe thunderstorms and hail in some places in the Eastern Cape, according to the South African Weather Service.  Impact-based warnings A yellow level 2 warning has been issued as severe thunderstorms with damaging winds, hail and lightning are expected in places over the Chris Hani, Joe Gqabi …

While Friday will be mainly hot, there will be severe
thunderstorms and hail in some places in the Eastern Cape, according to
the South
African Weather Service. 

Impact-based
warnings

A yellow level 2 warning has
been issued as severe thunderstorms with damaging winds, hail and lightning are
expected in places over the Chris Hani, Joe Gqabi and Alfred Nzo district
municipalities as well as the Raymond Mhlaba and Makana district municipalities.

Fire danger warning

Extremely high fire danger is
expected in some places over the interior and north-eastern parts of the
Northern Cape and Central Karoo of the Western Cape as well as the western and
central parts of the Eastern Cape.

Advisories

– Extremely hot conditions are
expected over the Prince Albert Municipality of the Western Cape tomorrow.

– A heat wave with persistently
high temperatures is expected over the Karoo Hoogland Municipality of the
Northern Cape until Saturday.

The
weather in your province

Gauteng will
be partly cloudy and warm to hot with isolated afternoon showers and
thundershowers.

The expected UVB sunburn index
is extreme.

In Mpumalanga, it will
be fine and warm to hot but cloudy in the east and along the escarpment in the
morning with fog patches. It will become partly cloudy in the afternoon with
isolated thundershowers in the west.

It will be cloudy in the east
in the morning with fog patches along the escarpment in Limpopo, otherwise
fine and warm to hot but very hot in the south-western Bushveld, where it will
become partly cloudy from the afternoon.

The North West will
be fine and hot, becoming partly cloudy with afternoon showers and
thundershowers in the south.

The Free State will
be fine and warm to hot, becoming partly cloudy with afternoon showers and
thundershowers.

There will be morning and
evening fog patches along the coast in the Northern Cape, where it will be cool, otherwise fine and hot to
very hot but extremely hot in places in the south-west.

It will become cloudy over the
central parts during the afternoon with isolated showers and thundershowers.

The wind along the coast will
be fresh southerly to south-easterly at first, becoming fresh to strong
north-westerly.

There will be morning fog along
the south coast in the Western
Cape, otherwise fine and hot to very hot but extremely hot in
places over the north-western interior. It will be warm along the south-west
and south coastal areas.

The wind along the coast will
be fresh easterly to south-easterly along the south coast, otherwise fresh to
strong south-easterly.

The expected UVB sunburn index
is extreme.

In the western half of the Eastern Cape, it
will be warm in places along the coast, otherwise fine and hot to very hot,
becoming partly cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers except in the
west. 

Extremely hot temperatures are
expected in places over the interior.

The wind along the coast will
be fresh to strong north-easterly, becoming south-westerly along the coast from
the afternoon.

The eastern half of the Eastern
Cape will be hot in places south of the escarpment, otherwise fine and hot
becoming partly cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers.

Extremely hot temperatures are
expected in places in the south-west.

The wind along the coast will
be fresh to strong north-easterly, becoming moderate overnight.

KwaZulu-Natal will be
partly cloudy to cloudy in the east with morning fog over the interior,
otherwise fine and warm but hot over the interior. It will become partly cloudy
over the west in the afternoon with isolated showers and thundershowers.

The wind along the coast will
be moderate to fresh north-easterly.

The expected UVB sunburn index
is high.

 

Click here to see the specific forecast for your city over the next few days.

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Brown locust outbreak hits Chris Hani, Sarah Baartman districts in EC

CAPE TOWN – The Eastern Cape government has confirmed a brown locust outbreak in two districts, Chris Hani and Sarah Baartman. One hundred and twenty-seven farms have been affected in Middelburg Cape, Graaff-Reinet, Aberdeen, Cradock, Nieuethesda, Pearston and Jansenville. The brown locust is a classified agricultural pest in South Africa, preferring mainly grasses and cereals, …

CAPE TOWN – The Eastern Cape government has confirmed a brown locust outbreak in two districts, Chris Hani and Sarah Baartman.

One hundred and twenty-seven farms have been affected in Middelburg Cape, Graaff-Reinet, Aberdeen, Cradock, Nieuethesda, Pearston and Jansenville.

The brown locust is a classified agricultural pest in South Africa, preferring mainly grasses and cereals, though other crops can also be attacked.

The Eastern Cape government has compiled a list of emerging farmers in the affected districts.

They will be trained to play a role in the management of the pest before the swarms reach the flying stage.

Spraying with knapsacks and bakkie pump sprayers has already started.

Departmental entomologist Nolitha Skenjana said: “Currently, the outbreak is in areas where there is livestock farming in the Eastern Cape and the insects are competing with livestock for grass. If they are not controlled, they might migrate to crops and vegetables and other areas.”

Meanwhile, officials are also busy scouting and farmers are urged to report any new outbreak.

The department said the locusts were currently in stage one and some were turning to stage two.

Skenjana said in just more than 21 days, it’s expected they would be flying and then it would be difficult to spray them.

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Travel South Africa: Explore the beauty of the Boland

Sometimes also referred to as the Cape Winelands, the Boland is home to towns such as Worcester, Robertson, and Paarl and is packed with a plethora of interesting things to see and do. Here are some fun and interesting (and non-wine) things to see and do in the region for the whole family. Bobbing around the …

Sometimes also referred to as the Cape Winelands, the Boland is home to towns such as Worcester, Robertson, and Paarl and is packed with a plethora of interesting things to see and do.

Here are some fun and interesting (and non-wine) things to see and do in the region for the whole family.

Bobbing around the Boland

Visit the Rasta House in Mbekweni

A visit to this amazing piece of architecture and building is a must!

The awe-inspiring five-storey wooden house in Phinzi Street in Mbekweni, Paarl has been a labour of love for the past 20 years for owner and builder, Ras Juda Ngqoshela.

The former police officer says he started building in 1996, adding piece by piece over the years, and he hasn’t finished yet. The house has five open-plan rooms and no toilets, and he plans to add two more stories which he hopes will make his house a tourist attraction in the Boland town.

Every floor has its own function — the living room is on the ground floor, the kitchen is on the second floor, and the bedrooms are on the third and fourth floors. The fifth floor of the house is a church for the local Rastafarian community.

For a tour of Mbekweni with a knowledgeable local guide, including a visit to the Rasta House contact Nancy Cowie on 021 764 3442 or Mariette van Velden on 021 873 2967.

Stroll Through the Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden in Worcester 

Set against the breathtaking backdrop of soaring mountains is the only succulent botanical garden in the southern hemisphere and on the African continent.

Originally established in 1921 near Matjiesfontein, the Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden was moved to Worcester in 1945.

The garden is home to over 400 indigenous plants from the arid and semi-arid regions of southern Africa, as well as 70 different bird species and many small mammals. The Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden is open all year round and well worth a visit to see some usual succulents.

For more information, visit www.sanbi.org/gardens/karoo-desert/

Try Locally Produced Gin at the Six Dogs Distillery

Nestled between the Breede and Hex River valleys, Six Dogs Distillery is a great little spot that produces three gins infused with hand-picked botanicals from the makers’ farm and the surrounding areas.

Located near Worcester, where South Africa’s signature pinotage grape variety is grown, the distillery uses the signature grapes to produce the three gins and celebrates a truly South African cultivar.

The three gins produced at Six Dogs Distillery on the Boschkloof Farm are Six Dogs Karoo, Six Dogs Blue, and Six Dogs Pinotage Stained.

For more information, visit www.sixdogs.co.za

Take a Tractor Trip Around Protea Farm Near Montagu

Situated in the famous Koo valley, just outside Montagu in the heart of the scenic Route 62, Protea Farm is a fantastic place to visit with the family. The working farm produces apples and pears, and proteas grow wild on the surrounding mountains, but there is so much more to this beautiful farm than its delicious fresh produce and scenic splendour.

Protea Farm is famous for legendary tractor trips up the Langeberg Mountains, where you can soak up spectacular sweeping views of the Koo and Robertson valleys. After your tractor ride, you can tuck into traditional potjiekos around a roaring fire.

If you want to linger longer and enjoy hiking and mountain biking in the mountains, swimming in the lake, and relaxing in front of a crackling fire, the farm has four self-catering cottages that can be rented for overnight stays.

For more information, visit www.proteafarm.co.za

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Brown locust outbreak hits Eastern Cape

The Eastern Cape government has warned of a brown locust outbreak in two of the province’s districts. The brown locust is a classified agricultural pest in South Africa, and it prefers grasses and cereals. Authorities say the locusts are currently in stage one and two, before flying can occur.   The Eastern Cape Provincial Department …

  • The Eastern Cape government has warned of a brown locust outbreak in two of the province’s districts.
  • The brown locust is a classified agricultural pest in South Africa, and it prefers grasses and cereals.
  • Authorities say the locusts are currently in stage one and two, before flying can occur.

 

The Eastern Cape Provincial Department of Rural Development and Agrarian Reform released a statement on Monday warning of a brown locust outbreak in the province’s Sarah Baartman and Chris Hani districts.

The provincial department said it worked with the National Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development to detect the outbreak.

“The known affected areas are currently Middelburg Cape, Graaff-Reinet, Aberdeen, Cradock, Nieu-Bethesda, Pearston and Jansenville on 127 farms,” the statement said.

According to the statement, the brown locust is a classified agricultural pest in South Africa and while it tends to prefer grasses and cereals, other crops can also be attacked.

The department statement said emerging farmers in the affected districts would undergo training to participate in a pest management program to manage the swarms before they reach the flying stage. 

Department entomologist Nolitha Skenjana said the locusts are currently in stage one and two, which was a “good time for spraying to occur”.

“We are now left in estimation with just more than 21 days, then they will be flying, and it will be difficult to spray them at that time,” Skenjana said.

According to the provincial department, egg hatching among brown locusts begins in September after the first rains and continues in October with flying commencing in December.

Earlier this year, the department confirmed an outbreak of brown locusts in the northwestern Karoo, with interventions similarly beginning at the early stages.

This followed an outbreak of desert locusts in East Africa, which had devastating impact on crops in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia. 

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South African Astronomical Observatory turns 200

The South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO), the country’s oldest scientific site, celebrates two centuries of excellence in astronomy on Tuesday, October 20. The Cape Town Observatory, now part of the SAAO, is 200 years old this year. As the oldest permanent observatory in the Southern Hemisphere, it has played a significant scientific role over time …

The South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO), the country’s oldest scientific site, celebrates two centuries of excellence in astronomy on Tuesday, October 20.

The Cape Town Observatory, now part of the SAAO, is 200 years old this year. As the oldest permanent observatory in the Southern Hemisphere, it has played a significant scientific role over time and was declared a national heritage site in 2018.

The Royal Observatory Cape of Good Hope was founded on October 20, 1820 and is the oldest scientific institution in the country. Formally, it was controlled by the British Admiralty and was intended for the improvement of navigation. Its main duty was to chart the southern skies and provide a time service for passing ships in Cape Town harbour.

SAAO was formed in 1972, combining the Cape Town and Johannesburg Observatories. Its main research telescopes are located a site 15 km from the small Karoo town of Sutherland in the Northern Cape.  This site, 1 800 metres above sea level, hosts 24 telescopes of various sizes and forms, some owned by SAAO and some hosted for international research institutes.

SAAO, a research facility of the National Research Foundation, which is an entity of the Department of Science and Innovation, is responsible for optical and infrared astronomy in South Africa and provides local and international scientists with world-class facilities and access to our country’s exceptionally dark skies.

For much of its history, it was the major contributor to positional astronomy in the southern hemisphere. Observations made by the Cape astronomers include:

– The first measurement of the distance to a star,

– The first photographic sky survey,

– The accurate measurement of the distance to the Sun,

– Developments in stellar spectroscopy (which allow us to determine the motions, temperatures and chemical compositions of the stars),

– The determination of the shape of the Earth in the southern hemisphere and

– The first accurate geodetic surveys of southern Africa.

The Cape Town site is not only of scientific significance but international cultural significance too. For instance, the McClean Building, which houses the McClean Telescope erected in 1896, was designed by the renowned architect Herbert Baker.  The observatory also has many artefacts of historical significance, such a speculum mirror and six chronometers manufactured in the 1800s.

Today, the SAAO, a National Facility of the National Research Foundation, is a vibrant modern astrophysical institute undertaking research to understand fundamental questions about the Universe. These include tracking the flow of natural elements from stars in galaxies to eventually enabling life, the prevalence of planets around other stars, small bodies in our solar system, and high energy cosmic events.

The Cape Town site hosts state-of-the-art workshops for technological development, while SAAO operates the largest optical telescope in the southern hemisphere, the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) at Sutherland, along with two dozen smaller telescopes.

Also read: Sir Thomas Maclear’s beacon: A history

Picture: Facebook / South African Astronomical Observatory

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Virus shuts down Eastern Cape police stations

Institute for Security Studies senior researcher Johan Burger  said police were bound to be at risk because of the kind of work they did. But he also questioned whether police were taking the necessary precautions. “There have been social media videos showing some officers  neglecting the prescribed safety measures to protect themselves and the people …

Institute for Security Studies senior researcher Johan Burger  said police were bound to be at risk because of the kind of work they did. But he also questioned whether police were taking the necessary precautions.

“There have been social media videos showing some officers  neglecting the prescribed safety measures to protect themselves and the people they come into contact with. These are the reasons we can see an increase in the rate of infections in some police stations,” Burger said.

The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) told the Dispatch it expected more police stations to close in the coming days.

On Monday, national police spokesperson Brig Vishnu Naidoo confirmed that the Bhisho station was closed on Sunday after a positive case was recorded. The King William’s Town station closed for the same reason on Saturday.

“The old police station building, next to the Bhisho Engen garage, is being used to service the community and three shifts that are not infected are on duty to render services,” Naidoo said.

“The telephone lines are not working and community members are advised to call 10111 for emergencies and complaints, but as soon as decontamination has been completed, community members will be informed.”

Last Monday,  a station commander based at Middelburg died after contracting Covid-19.

“He had 29 years of service, having joined the organisation in 1991,” Naidoo said.

Police confirmed the closure of Kinkelbos and Willowvale stations on Monday, with Naidoo saying alternative accommodation plans had to be made while decontamination of the stations took place.

An officer in each of these stations tested positive.

Kinkelbos police will operate from the victim support centre building on the same premises, but the main police station building will be closed, Naidoo said, and Willowvale police will operate from the Willowvale town hall.

“The establishment of a 24/7 Covid-19 hotline is a measure in place to ensure continuous support to our infected and affected members and their families, he added.

Popcru provincial secretary Zamikhaya Skade said the union had called for Lusikisiki police station to be closed on Monday after an officer tested positive.

“We would not allow members in that building. It must be decontaminated first and management should find an alternative accommodation. There are a number of stations facing this,” he said.

Skade shared Burger’s view that some police officers did not seem to care about their safety.

“A number of them are seen in roadblocks and elsewhere without protective gear. The members should care for themselves, the nation and their families by wearing their protective gear all the time,” he said.

“Just now [earlier on Monday], officers at the Mount Road police station in Port Elizabeth were panicking because one of their colleagues came into the station with a certificate confirming he tested positive. Except he was not wearing protective gear. He went as far as the third floor of the building and now that has left officers panicking. We do not need this.”

Burger said it was almost inevitable that some officers would contract the virus.

“They have to visit people who lay complaints. They have to attend to people who report cases, either at the stations or wherever they go. Basically, police have to interact with members of the community, which means they are more exposed to  infection than ordinary people who could distance themselves.”

By Asanda Nini

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Saddle up: Cycle route launched between Knysna and Calitzdorp

Like other countries, South Africa is increasingly offering a range of different tourist experiences. Exploring a region by bike may sound like a workout, but cycle holidays are popular in several countries throughout the world. France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and several other countries are well known for cycling holidays, where visitors explore outlying areas and …

Like other countries, South Africa is increasingly offering a range of different tourist experiences. Exploring a region by bike may sound like a workout, but cycle holidays are popular in several countries throughout the world.

France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and several other countries are well known for cycling holidays, where visitors explore outlying areas and lesser-known tourist destinations on multi-day cycling trips. Riding from town to town, through beautiful open spaces appeals to many people.

Adventure tourists often recount inspiring and entertaining stories about cycling trips they have taken, where they cycled through beautiful landscapes and were able to get a great sense of the places visited, by interacting with local communities en route.

South Africa’s terrain and diverse landscapes lend themselves to being explored on a bike. Cycling is also a favourite pastime for a number of South Africans.

THE KAROO CROSSING CYLE ROUTE

The Karoo Crossing is the latest in a number of cycle routes in the Western Cape. This brings the total number of routes in the Cape Cycle Routes network to five.

The Karoo Crossing Cycle Route starts from Knysna and continues inland, to the Karoo town of Calitzdorp. The route can be started in either of the two towns and can be ridden in either direction. It stretches over a distance of 358 kilometres.  

EXPLORING SMALL KAROO TOWNS EN ROUTE

The Cape Cycle Routes have been thoughtfully designed so that they attract visitors to venture off the beaten track, and explore smaller towns and lesser-known tourist attractions which are scattered throughout the Western Cape.

The route was opened on 23 September, by Western Cape Premier Alan Winde and Minister of Finance and Economic Opportunities, David Maynier.

“It is wonderful to be here today at the opening of the Karoo Crossing which is the fifth leg of the Cape Cycle Routes tour in the Western Cape. And our aim here is not only to attract more adventure tourists but also to showcase the great attractions and experiences in small towns and rural communities across the Western Cape,” David Maynier said at the launch.

ADVENTURE SEEKERS ARE INVITED TO ENJOY THE CYCLE ROUTE

At the launch of this new cycle route, Western Cape Premier Alan Winde encouraged South Africans to come out and enjoy the province’s nature and hospitality along the route, while supporting the tourism and hospitality sector.

“With the summer season approaching, we encourage people to get out and explore the province by venturing off the beaten track and to stop along the way and enjoy some of the best of small-town hospitality. This will help support the tourism and hospitality sector which is a significant job creator, especially in our non-rural areas, and help us to save jobs in the province,” Alan Winde said.

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