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Nicky Willemse works from Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Freelance journalist, copywriter, proofreader, editor, booklover, parent Nicky Willemse has over 43 followers on Twitter.

Mind your back! A young King penguin on Marion Island seems curious about the satellite transmitter attached to an older penguin’s back. The device allows scientists to see where penguins go to find food at sea. (Photo: Pierre Pistorius)

E-tracking marine predators to protect Southern Ocean’s rich feeding grounds

Scientists from a number of institutions collaborated to collect data on 17 marine birds and mammals such as penguins, albatrosses, seals and whales in the ocean around Antarctica

New modes of digital literacy are just as important as traditional literacy. Photo: File

Coding without computers reaches thousands of learners

“It was the opportunity of a lifetime for some of our kids … allowing them to explore a world of programming and the creative use of technology.”

(John McCann/M&G)

Programme multiplies pupils’ success

A maths and science incubator run by Nelson Mandela University is producing promising results

Nelson Mandela vice chancellor Professor Sibongile Muthwa

A conversation to frame Critical Mandela Studies

Mandela the social figure of justice requires greater ‘excavation’

On 22 July 1990, Mercedes Benz employee Philip Groom handed the keys of a brand new Mercedes Benz to Nelson Mandela at the Sisa Dukasha Stadium in Mdantsane, near East London. (Photo: Walter Dhladhla/AFP files)

Mandela, the Merc and the making of stories

Two films about Mandela’s car come to different conclusions

HSRC chief executive Crain Soudien, Nelson Mandela University’s Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation (CriSHET) Andre Keet, and Nelson Mandela Foundation’s director of archive and dialogue Verne Harris.

What does it mean to be a university named after Nelson Mandela?

Unique colloquium introduces Mandela studies at Nelson Mandela University

‘The New Testament’ by Pola Maneli was part of the ‘we are present’ exhibition

Two exhibitions link Mandela and art

The artworks build on and questions the legacy of Nelson Mandela

Xoliswa Ndoyiya, Mandela’s chef for 18 years

Cooking home food for Mandela, the ‘ordinary man’

He was a loving but strict grandparent

The Nelson Mandela Foundation said on Wednesday it was firing its outgoing chief executive, Sello Hatang

Why the HSRC and NMF came on board to support TIMS

Madiba will be used as a prism, through which modern problems can be viewed

International knitwear designer Laduma Ngxokolo (centre) kickstarted his career by designing a new range of clothes for Xhosa initiates, which was inspired by traditional Xhosa beadwork

‘Why I decided to call my brand MaXhosa’

Designer Laduma Ngxokolo has kept his family together in his business

“Mandela and Animism”, a piece by Marvin Carstens, which is on display at the Provoke/Ukuchukumisa/Daag-Uit exhibition at Nelson Mandela University.

Mandela archive as a living system

The existing Mandela biographies don’t tell the whole story

Intellectual blueprint: Nelson Mandela University plans to use Mandela as a model to transform education in a new way and for the university’s planned Transdisciplinary Institute for Mandela Studies. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Nelson Mandela University studies Madiba to transform society

The institution looks at how it could become an academic expression of Nelson Mandela and live out the social values he stood for

How the early bird recaptured the sky

The recently grounded progenitor of the modern bird could fly after all, an SA scientist has shown.

The outcome of the ANC’s long-awaited KwaZulu-Natal conference was a win for the Thuma Mina crowd. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Comment: Vaccines for Africa

With World Immunisation Week (April 20 – 26) drawing attention to vaccinations, Nicky Willemse turned the spotlight on Dr Seth Berkley.

Alison Rademan and Ashley Kleinhans see no reason why women and men should compete and believe they should work together instead.

Muscling in on the boys’ club

More women are making their mark in the traditionally male domain of engineering.

Freewheeling: In addition to other energy-efficiency projects

A leading light of solar energy

The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University’s pilot photovoltaic project produces enough power to run a house.

The miracle of incubator schools

The miracle of incubator schools

Eastern Cape teachers talk about the maths and science incubator that made all the difference in their lives.

New teaching model delivers good results

Teachers who received Funza Lushaka bursaries to study teaching return to their old schools to share their knowledge.

Prof aims to get earth back on track

Prof aims to get earth back on track

A new discipline embraces the bigger pictures that link problems such as poverty and climate change.

Big news on science of small things

Big news on science of small things

NMMU opened its new R120-million Centre for High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy this week.