News Bulletin of 6 November 2025, 4pm

Residents of Craigavon, led by Ward 115 councillor Mark van der Merwe, have launched a pilot clean-up to show the impact of coordinated community action.
The initiative focuses on litter removal, trimming overgrown trees, clearing verges, and removing illegal signage along a stretch from Crawford School to Poplar Road circle.
It serves as a test for a long-term neighbourhood management plan run by a newly established non-profit company.
Van der Merwe says the project encourages homeowners, residents, and local estates to work together to support a permanent clean-up team.
The community has responded positively, with visible improvements already motivating more people to get involved.

Compact Food Solutions has launched “Raise a Life. Raise a Nation.”, a campaign tackling child stunting in South Africa’s most vulnerable communities.
The initiative provides locally made Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplement sachets for children aged six to 23 months. Each sachet contains protein, healthy fats, vitamins and minerals, meeting World Health Organization standards.
At R10 per sachet, donations support a child’s nutritional needs for a day. Food Forward SA ensures distribution through vetted NGOs and early childhood centres.
The pilot campaign has already been rolled out in Cape Town malls, and Compact Food Solutions says it will publish results once coverage and outcomes are assessed.
Managing Director Jenny Martin emphasised the importance of community involvement and transparency to ensure donations make a real difference in children’s lives.

The 4-meter Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope, or 4MOST, can analyse 2,400 cosmic objects at once, breaking their light into 18,000 colour components.
Every 10 to 20 minutes, it produces data revealing what stars, galaxies, and other celestial bodies are made of.
The telescope will support 25 major science programs over the next five years, involving 700 researchers worldwide.
Its first images show the Sculptor Galaxy, with each coloured dot representing a different object captured by 4MOST’s fibres.
Experts say the telescope’s speed and precision will allow astronomers to catalogue temperatures, chemical compositions, and movements of millions of objects across the southern sky, opening new horizons in the study of the universe.