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Government Communication and Information System, in collaboration with the National Intellectual Property Management Office (NIPMO) – a specialised service delivery unit within the National Department of Science and Innovation – recently held a webinar about intellectual property (IP) and the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Act.

Vhutshilo Netshiongolwe has created an organic, plant-based cereal that is suitable for diabetics.

Netshiongolwe, from Limpopo, says the idea was sparked after watching his grandmother battle with type 2 diabetes, for over 35 years, and struggle to access proper medication.

Gugulethu Farm in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) is producing potatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and spinach, thanks to government initiatives and support.

If you don’t have a valid will, you will have no control over who inherits your assets when you die. This might lead to people inheriting your money or assets, even if you didn’t want them to.

If a person dies without making a will, the assets that they owned will be distributed in terms of the Intestate Succession Act, to the people who must rightfully inherit them.

The Act sets out rules of how the estate must be distributed. It goes to close relatives first, in a specific order:

The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture has begun its inaugural #ForTheRecord information sessions to keep the public informed about its economic recovery and reconstruction efforts for the creative sector.

The initiative comes after the department was repeatedly accused of being unresponsiveness and uncaring towards the creative sector.

Sport, Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa says these sessions will be held regularly.

Lwazi Msipha, has turned his love for cartoons into a full-time career. He has created, written and animated a new show called My Cartoon Friend. The show is being aired on American cable television channel Car­toon Network.

The 13-episode production is about the friendship between a 2D version of Msipha and Themba, a cartoon character. The two co-existing in the same world learning to live with each other as their friends.

Fashion designer Lindo Mavuso (23) was convicted of murder and spent four years in jail before he turned 18.

Mavuso was arrested for the mob justice murder of a man who stole property from him, that he had stolen from someone else.

Drug addict turns his life around and is now helping addicts recover.

Lehlohonolo Sekgobela’s (30) journey, from drug addict to anti-drug activist, is one of hope and inspiration.

Sekgobela, originally from Parktown in Johannesburg, carries an empty box of matches everywhere to remind him not to go back to using drugs.

‘’Delivering just and democratic boundaries’’

Established in 1999, The Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB), an independent authority has continued to deliver its mandate without fear, favour or prejudice.

The MDB’s mandate is derived from the Municipal Demarcation Act (Act No.

27 of 1998) and Municipal Structures Act (Act No. 117 of 1998).

The MDB is mandated to: