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DION REDDY
Despite corporate social investment activities becoming more common among South African businesses in recent years, they're still seldom treated as little more than a box-ticking exercise... read
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Education
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Thembisile Tyopo, a second-year electrical engineering student and Enactus Central University of Technology, Free State projects manager, has been awarded the 2019 WV de Wet Student Leader Excellence Award at the Enactus South Africa national competition in Sandton, Johannesburg... Read
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The University of the Free State in South Africa and Ghent University in Belgium have conducted research on a new transparent solar panel which could provide power cheaply from the sun to homes, factories and cities... Read
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ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM
Since 2001, Bizcommunity anticipated the role of company culture as intellectual capital. Biz Press Offices are a "glass box" game changer, offering a window into 18 industry communities... Read
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MAROEFAH SMITH
Room 13 uses art and creativity to develop and empower underprivileged children by creating a safe place to develop their self-esteem and sense of purpose... Read
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Higher Education
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Drought remains the number one disaster in Africa, and of all the people affected by all types of disasters, drought is responsible for over 88% of them... Read
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NONTOBEKO ZONDI, ISSUED BY VAAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
Professor Gordon Zide, the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the Vaal University of Technology, addressed the Somali National University graduation ceremony which was held on Monday, 24 June... Read
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"The need to address the complexities of language and communication for learning mathematics in multilingual classrooms is relevant to the entire country." Read
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Several challenges exist in computer science education and more needs to be done to cater for the current and upcoming demand for computer science within higher education... Read
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Primary & Secondary Education
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FRANZISKA MEINCK
South Africa has the largest HIV epidemic in the world. An estimated 7.2-million people are living with HIV and 4.4 million are on antiretroviral therapy... Read
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Skills Training
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TATYANA TERENTYEVA
For too long, HR experts around the world have been debating what to do about the pressing skills gap issue... Read
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Sub-Saharan Africa will remain the world's fastest-growing mobile region over the coming years... Read
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While fintech and mobile solutions for money transfers have taken off in Africa, there has been a mixed reaction thus far from governments to the use and regulation of blockchain and cryptocurrency... Read
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What will the Africa of 2050 look like? Being only 31 years away, Africa's population is expected to double and there will be huge economic shifts... Read
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It has been confirmed that Jonathan (Johnny) Clegg, succumbed to pancreatic cancer at the age of 66 on the afternoon of 16 July 2019 at his family home in Johannesburg, South Africa... Read
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MICHAEL KITHINJI
Factors behind the hits and missed of the higher education sector in Kenya and East Africa. What need to be done to fix address the problems... Read
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The latest hype around the FaceApp application has attracted scammers who want to make some quick profits... Read
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CHARLENE LACKAY
There's a wise old saying that goes, "Good shoes take you good places". It may seem like a simple inconsequential thing, but a good pair of shoes could be the first step... Read
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BENJAMIN ROBERTS, JARE STRUWIG, NARNIA BOHLER-MULLER, AND STEVEN GORDON
Powerful new technologies are emerging that will continue to affect individuals in multiple ways... Read
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"How I Built This" dives into the stories behind growing SME's and the movements they built... Read
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50 young female entrepreneurs recently graduated from the Future Females Business School, powered by UK-SA Tech Hub... Read
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