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The Time of the Writer Festival returns with a bold hybrid vision, using literature to challenge power, amplify voices and reconnect communities across borders

How the Time of the Writer Festival is taking the stories to the people

The Time of the Writer Festival returns with a bold hybrid vision, using literature to challenge power, amplify voices and reconnect communities across borders

Whizz kids: The 2025 cohort of the National Science and Technology Forum’s Brilliants Programme. Photos: National Science and Technology Forum

Top pupils get wings to help SA soar

Through the NSTF Brilliants Programme, a group of top maths and science learners are becoming tomorrow’s problem-solvers, innovators and leaders

Figuring on biggering: A day of music and culture in LInksfield.

Diary: Big Day Out with Oskido, RedFest2025 returns, UKZN’s tribute to Demi Fernandez

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Jazzed up: Andile Yenana will perform at the Umtiza Arts Festival’s concert to celebrate South Africa’s jazz heritage.

Diary: Celebrating International Jazz Day and The History of House at the Lyric Theatre

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Critique: Musician Tumi Mogorosi (above) and poet Lesego Rampolokeng will be in MoRa at the Pan African Theatre Festival.

Diary: The Pan African theatre festival, Disney’s Aladdin Jr and two unmissable events in Durban

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Joyful voices: Rhodes University Chamber Choir.

Diary: Rhodes University Chamber Choir goes on tour, UKZN presents JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience and Stephen Hobbs exhibits at the Blue House

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Compilation: Some of the artists on ZiiBeats Vol 2.

Diary: Baz-Art celebrates women muralists, bringing jazz to Durban, ZiiBeats vol. 2 drops

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Musical artist: Buhlebendalo will be performing at She Fest.

Diary: She Fest comes to Constitutional Hill, Soweto’s Buskaid String Ensemble in concert,  Lu Dlamini to perform at UKZN

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The winners of the 2023 UKZN Inspiring Impact Challenge. (Photo: Sethu Dlamini)

Social entrepreneurs excel in finals of Inspiring Impact Challenge

Their organisations are helping the community and ensuring sustainability

The shortlisted entrants for the UKZN Inspiring Impact Challenge who underwent the accelerator training programme in preparation for the main pitching event.

UKZN hosts Inspiring Impact Challenge

The annual competition showcases initiatives tackling challenges in alignment with the UN’s SDGs

Management Information Systems – The fulcrum of business education in the dynamic digital evolution era

UKZN Graduate School of Business and Leadership School teaches you how to reshape the business environment

Leaders of today must consider profit AND planet.

Developing sustainable leadership capability for a better world

Sustainability literacy is about understanding the intertwining of people, planet and profit

GSB&L’s critical role in the entrepreneurial ecosystems of small business development in KwaZulu-Natal

The school’s postgraduate degrees and diplomas embed the ethos and foundations of entrepreneurship and business management

UKZN’s Inspiring Impact Challenge

The annual competition showcases impact-driven initiatives in the university community

We have seen a decline in vultures in South Africa over the past 30 years. (Photo by Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images)

Balance needed between vulture conservation and traditional medicine

Dr Nomthandazo Manqele conducted a study on the role of vultures in traditional medicine and finds that healers share a desire to conserve the endangered, yet revered, species

Urban tourist magnets have nowhere to retreat to as sea levels rise with climate change. (Rajesh Jantilal/AFP via Getty Images)

South Africa’s coastal cities may lose their beaches

Urban tourist magnets have nowhere to retreat to as sea levels rise with climate change

Professor Puleng Lenkabula will be the first woman vice-chancellor since Unisa’s establishment 148 years ago

Unisa appoints its first woman vice-chancellor

Professor Puleng Lenkabula will be the first woman vice-chancellor since Unisa’s establishment 148 years ago. She is also the fifth women vice-chancellor in the country

Universities have taken steps such as deactivating their biometric systems to combat the spread of coronavirus.

South African universities record 22 deaths from Covid-19

A Universities South Africa survey shows that 20 people — 19 staff members and one student — at local universities have died after contracting the coronavirus

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Covid-19 lockdown pushes Wits University to offer online learning

The university plans to teach online as South Africa’s lockdown continues, and is offering zero-rated data for its teaching sites, as well as computing devices for students

KwaZulu-Natal shows that leukaemia is 24 times higher here than anywhere else in the country. Half the schoolchildren in the area suffer from asthma.

Rights group wins court bid against Engen

The Right2Know Campaign has been allowed to join a court case against Engen, which used the Regulation of Gatherings Act to ban protests outside its Durban refinery