A statement from Fikile Mbalula, South African Minister of Transport 15 January 2020 Prasa (the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa) has suffered blows from many
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Feeding children, feeding my soul
In my 50th year, a year of great abundance (I celebrated my birthday with my beloved and dear friends in Istanbul, I was given a wetsuit
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Dump maths? Sounds like a race to the bottom
10X Investments called on South Africa’s Department of Basic Education this week to reconsider the “potentially catastrophic proposal” to remove mathematics as a pass requirement in
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Back by popular demand: #FeesMustFall
Back by popular demand! The Fall will be showing at Baxter Golden Arrow Studio from June 8 to 24. Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Research Chair of Studies
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Education crisis ‘the civil rights struggle of the day’
Respected African elder statesman Jakaya Kikwete told the World Economic Forum’s Africa meetings in Durban that the education crisis in Africa was today’s civil rights struggle, and
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Young Africa Works: Making farming sexy
A beautiful, noisy thunder shower greeted delegates arriving in Kigali, Rwanda, for the Mastercard Foundation’s second annual Young Africa Works Summit in late February 2017, shattering
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Calm speech belies chaos at Sona, wider crisis
What a difference 10 minutes can make! Once Parliament had been cleared of his most vocal opponents, many of them by force, President Jacob Zuma started
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Spier shares cash from carbon credits with workers
Workers at the Spier estate in Stellenbosch in South Africa’s winelands will have a little extra to spend this Christmas after the farm decided to divide
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Crowd-funding: almost as old as the hills in Africa
The idea behind crowd-funding, raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people via the internet to finance a project, might not be
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From ship to shop: V&A spends another R37m on passenger terminal
The V&A Waterfront on Thursday marked the launch of 2016/17 cruise season by announcing that another R37 million would be invested in the terminal that receives
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