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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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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If you can’t stand the heat get off the fence
It was hard to ignore the heat (or the irony) on Monday as a group of scientists told occupants in a sweltering hall on a quayside
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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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Things heat up for polar expedition from Cape
Things were heating up at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town this weekend as 50 scientists from around the globe prepared for the groundbreaking three-month polar
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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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The future: watching you from your dashboard
Watching demos by MTN and Huawei at the Africa.com conference in Cape Town this week was a wake-up call for at least one person in deep denial
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Building a house Africa-style: one step at a time
Innovation is required in the financial services sector in Africa to provide funding products for households who build their own homes bit by bit. Either way,
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Making money in the wildest of ways
Throwing the old economy-versus-environment argument into question, Wilderness Holdings on Friday reported good progress on both sides of the equation in the six months to the
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