News Bulletin of 20 June 2025, 9am

1. Dynamic South African born actor Sven Ruygrok is making a difference, one teen at a time. Last week Ruygrok was at King David Victory Park, speaking to Grades 6 and 7 learners on bullying. Ruygrok sees people in the world as being more digitally connected, but with the young suffering an epidemic of isolation. For over a decade, he has spoken at schools across the country and abroad, with bullying being constant, growing more hidden and more harmful as technology seeps into every corner of life. The actor sees bullying not just as a behaviour but more of an outward symptom of a much deeper crisis: The crisis of identity. Ruygrok said teenagers today are spiritually starved. Taught to chase applause, beauty, status, followers, everything except the hard, quiet work of becoming a person of moral substance.

The 4th Annual Durban Tourism Business Awards honour businesses and individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the province's tourism industry.The awards highlight innovation and service excellence across a range of tourism-related categories, while encouraging growth and transformation in the sector. Finalists were selected across multiple categories with winners receiving up to R50 000 in cash prizes.Gary Coetzee is the winner of the customer experience of the year award. SOUND

Archaeologists have pieced together thousands of fragments of a 2,000-year-old wall plaster to reveal remarkable frescoes that decorated a luxurious Roman villa.The shattered plaster was discovered in 2021 at a site in central London that's being redeveloped, however it has taken until now to reconstruct this colossal jigsaw puzzle.The frescoes are from at least 20 walls of the building, with beautifully painted details of musical instruments, birds, flowers and fruit. The art reveals more about the affluence of the area, described by the team as the "Beverly Hills of Roman London". Researchers reported that the find is one of the biggest collections of Roman wall plaster and paintings ever found in Roman London.