Carol Munro, 11 of Lydenburg, has done a huge amount of recycling in her spare time. Carol won a gold medal at the last Eskom Expo, for her skills in a project she called: “Cheap Aids for the Disabled”. “I made a walking frame out of paper (posters) as well as stimulating toys, like a hula hoop elephant, marble alley, ball catcher, stilts, and safety glasses out of a 2 litre coke bottle that protects a disabled person’s eyes when chopping wood,” she said. Carol is presently investigating whether recycled gumboots from the surrounding mines can be melted and mixed with gravel to be used as temporary repairs for the many potholes in Lydenburg’s roads. She would like to have this ready for the fi rst round of the Eskom Expo for Young Scientists on May 17. A local solution to a local problem!

Kgomotso Mabona of Mamelodi East sent us some of her lovely drawings, including a young boy with his soccer ball. She is very concerned about wasting water, and this is something about which she talks to her friends and family. She writes: “Water is important to all of us. We all need water. It gives life, and we can’t live without it.”