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  1. The meteorite that crashed in the Eastern Cape in South Africa was a car-sized meteorite.
    Prof. Roger Gibson from the Wits School of Geosciences talks about the scientific implications.

    youtu.be/VfibOZQl4Fc?si=-cOiQ5

    #Meteorite #SouthAfrica #StFrancisBay #PortElizabeth #Kirkwood #EasternCape #space

  2. My wife and I got married in #Hogsback, and we seriously considered moving there. These restrictions on movement are heartbreaking.

    We also have family elsewhere in the #EasternCape who may well owe their lives to this same paramilitary security group, in the absence of anything approaching effective policing.

    Hogsback locals say paramilitary-style security is ruining tourism

    news24.com/fin24/economy/hogsb

  3. My wife and I got married in #Hogsback, and we seriously considered moving there. These restrictions on movement are heartbreaking.

    We also have family elsewhere in the #EasternCape who may well owe their lives to this same paramilitary security group, in the absence of anything approaching effective policing.

    Hogsback locals say paramilitary-style security is ruining tourism

    news24.com/fin24/economy/hogsb

  4. 「Lest we forget – SS Mendi 21 February 1917

    The #SouthAfricanNativeLabourCorps men aboard her came from a range of social backgrounds, and from a number of different peoples spread over the South African provinces and neighbouring territories. (287 were from #Transvaal, 139 from the #EasternCape, 87 from #Natal, 27 from #NorthernCape, 26 from the #OrangeFreeState, 26 from #Basutoland, eight from #Bechuanaland [#Botswana], five from #WesternCape, one from #Rhodesia and one from #SouthWestAfrica). Most had never seen the sea before this voyage, and very few could swim. The officers and NCOs were white Southern Africans.

    [...]

    Poignantly, 21 February 2024 did not see military celebrations but the sombre repatriation to South Africa of two SA National Defence force soldiers killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo in a rebel mortar strike last week.」

    defenceweb.co.za/military-hist

    #Mendi #SouthAfrica #MilitaryHistory #History #WorldWarI #France #Congo #SANDF #SouthAfricanArmy #SouthAfricanNavy #NavalHistory

  5. 「Lest we forget – SS Mendi 21 February 1917

    The #SouthAfricanNativeLabourCorps men aboard her came from a range of social backgrounds, and from a number of different peoples spread over the South African provinces and neighbouring territories. (287 were from #Transvaal, 139 from the #EasternCape, 87 from #Natal, 27 from #NorthernCape, 26 from the #OrangeFreeState, 26 from #Basutoland, eight from #Bechuanaland [#Botswana], five from #WesternCape, one from #Rhodesia and one from #SouthWestAfrica). Most had never seen the sea before this voyage, and very few could swim. The officers and NCOs were white Southern Africans.

    [...]

    Poignantly, 21 February 2024 did not see military celebrations but the sombre repatriation to South Africa of two SA National Defence force soldiers killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo in a rebel mortar strike last week.」

    defenceweb.co.za/military-hist

    #Mendi #SouthAfrica #MilitaryHistory #History #WorldWarI #France #Congo #SANDF #SouthAfricanArmy #SouthAfricanNavy #NavalHistory

  6. 「Huge uplift for Eastern Cape on way from South Africa’s R105bn green ammonia project

    The building of the R105-billion #greenammonia project by Hive Hydrogen South Africa is poised to be a huge economic uplift for the #EasternCape.

    The large project is the first phase of a multi-phase venture that will be constructed over 16 years. [...]

    The front-end engineering design (FEED) process gets underway next month and tenders will invited shortly after the conclusion of that process in July.

    Funding will be a combination of 70% debt and 30% equity. The final investment decision, which is expected by the end of next year, will be followed by construction and commissioning in 2028.

    [...]

    The building by Hive Hydrogen of 3.6 GW renewable energy capacity is scheduled to begin in early 2025. The solar power component will be built near the town of #DeAar, in the #NorthernCape, and wind component north and south of #BeaufortWest, in the #WesternCape.

    A large transmission grid strengthening programme will enable #HiveHydrogen’s 3.6 GW on to the grid and phases two, three and four of the project will each require additional renewable energy of a similar gigawattage. Interestingly, Hive Hydrogen’s initial 3.6 GW on to the grid will enable an additional 14.4 GW from other independent power producers.

    The one-million tons of green ammonia a year that the #Coega project will produce will provide clean energy for a variety of applications, with green hydrogen and ammonia being particularly well suited to the decarbonisation of heavy industries and transportation industries.

    [...]

    Those in the industry will know that one of the most important things that #Eskom is doing and plans to be operational by around 2029, is to put in two 765 kV transmission lines with about 10 GW of capacity, from #Gamma in the Northern Cape to #Grassridge in the Eastern Cape.

    [...]

    When will 20 000 people be employed by the project [...]

    There will be a large number of construction #jobs and because this is a multi-phase project, we're hoping to time the construction jobs so that we have a full 16-year period over which we can employ the people, so that it's not a construction job just for a short period.」

    polity.org.za/article/huge-upl

    #SouthAfrica #RenewableEnergy

  7. 「Huge uplift for Eastern Cape on way from South Africa’s R105bn green ammonia project

    The building of the R105-billion #greenammonia project by Hive Hydrogen South Africa is poised to be a huge economic uplift for the #EasternCape.

    The large project is the first phase of a multi-phase venture that will be constructed over 16 years. [...]

    The front-end engineering design (FEED) process gets underway next month and tenders will invited shortly after the conclusion of that process in July.

    Funding will be a combination of 70% debt and 30% equity. The final investment decision, which is expected by the end of next year, will be followed by construction and commissioning in 2028.

    [...]

    The building by Hive Hydrogen of 3.6 GW renewable energy capacity is scheduled to begin in early 2025. The solar power component will be built near the town of #DeAar, in the #NorthernCape, and wind component north and south of #BeaufortWest, in the #WesternCape.

    A large transmission grid strengthening programme will enable #HiveHydrogen’s 3.6 GW on to the grid and phases two, three and four of the project will each require additional renewable energy of a similar gigawattage. Interestingly, Hive Hydrogen’s initial 3.6 GW on to the grid will enable an additional 14.4 GW from other independent power producers.

    The one-million tons of green ammonia a year that the #Coega project will produce will provide clean energy for a variety of applications, with green hydrogen and ammonia being particularly well suited to the decarbonisation of heavy industries and transportation industries.

    [...]

    Those in the industry will know that one of the most important things that #Eskom is doing and plans to be operational by around 2029, is to put in two 765 kV transmission lines with about 10 GW of capacity, from #Gamma in the Northern Cape to #Grassridge in the Eastern Cape.

    [...]

    When will 20 000 people be employed by the project [...]

    There will be a large number of construction #jobs and because this is a multi-phase project, we're hoping to time the construction jobs so that we have a full 16-year period over which we can employ the people, so that it's not a construction job just for a short period.」

    polity.org.za/article/huge-upl

    #SouthAfrica #RenewableEnergy

  8. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

    ✧ Prehnite ✧

    Prehnite is an inosilicate mineral of calcium and aluminium with the chemical formula Ca2Al(AlSi3O10)(OH)2. Limited Fe3+ substitutes for aluminium in the structure. Prehnite crystallizes in the orthorhombic crystal system, and most often forms as stalactitic, botryoidal, reniform or globular aggregates. Prehnite is brittle with an un...

    #Prehnite #EasternCape #SouthAfrica #UnitedStates #Connecticut #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehnite

  9. That some people are being denied #healthcare services because they do not have identity documents or transfer letters is one of the headline findings of community-led clinic monitoring project #Ritshidze's third report on healthcare services in the #Easterncape.

    spotlightnsp.co.za/2023/09/27/

  10. In August, telecommunications company #MTN joined the list of service providers who have temporarily withdrawn services because the #EasternCape Department of #health failed to pay their bills. Luvuyo Mehlwana reports.

    spotlightnsp.co.za/2023/09/04/

  11. Die spektakuläre #WildCoast am #EasternCape war dieses Mal wirklich wild. Das hier sind die letzten Bilder (aufgenommen am Donnerstagvormittag) vor einem Unwetter mit massivem „disruptive Rainfall“ bis in die Nacht hinein. In der ganzen Region gab es Erdrutsche und extreme Sturzfluten. Eine schlaflose Nacht für uns, aber ein Desaster für viele in den Dörfern und Städten an der Ostküste, die ihr Hab und Gut verloren haben 💔

    #UnngaziRiverMouth #IndianOcean #SouthAfrica

  12. Die spektakuläre #WildCoast am #EasternCape war dieses Mal wirklich wild. Das hier sind die letzten Bilder (aufgenommen am Donnerstagvormittag) vor einem Unwetter mit massivem „disruptive Rainfall“ bis in die Nacht hinein. In der ganzen Region gab es Erdrutsche und extreme Sturzfluten. Eine schlaflose Nacht für uns, aber ein Desaster für viele in den Dörfern und Städten an der Ostküste, die ihr Hab und Gut verloren haben 💔

    #UnngaziRiverMouth #IndianOcean #SouthAfrica

  13. By FALKO – in Stutterheim, Eastern Cape, South Africa

    On Facebook. By FALKO in Stutterheim, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

    streetartutopia.com/2013/05/07