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HALEON

Haleon partners with UWC to improve oral health to Western Cape communities

The significance of a healthy smile goes far beyond what meets the eye. We do more than smile with our mouths and teeth – we talk, we chew, and we bite. When our oral health is…

  • Haleon
4 min read
South African higher academic institutions have called for a ceasefire and the promotion of education in Palestine-Israel
HIGHER EDUCATION

University of Pretoria still reviewing resolution on Palestine

Students and staff at the university who are sympathetic to Palestine have asked that it boycott all Israeli academic institutions

  • Umamah Bakharia
3 min read
The Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy (IDIA) team.
2023 2024 NSTF SOUTH32 AWARDS

The cosmos decoders

IDIA team pioneers data-intensive astronomy in South Africa

  • Jamaine Krige
2 min read
Prof Emmanuel Iwuoha, Chair of the DSI/NRF South African Research Chair Initiative (SARChI) for NanoElectrochemistry and Sensor Technology.
2023 2024 NSTF SOUTH32 AWARDS

The biosensor sage

Prof Emmanuel Iwuoha’s legacy transforms lives through nanoscience

  • Jamaine Krige
2 min read
Prof Timothy Dube, Director of the Institute for Water Studies at UWC.
2023 2024 NSTF SOUTH32 AWARDS

The aqua innovator

Prof Timothy Dube harnesses AI to revolutionise water management

  • Jamaine Krige
2 min read
File photo: The pilot project involves 39 public higher education institutions, including the University of Johannesburg and the University of the Western Cape. (Photo by Ihsaan Haffejee/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
CPUT

NSFAS accommodation project is a ‘time bomb’ says Outa

The civil rights organisation says students have been asking it to intervene and warned if the crisis was not resolved fast, they would have no option but to protest

  • Umamah Bakharia
4 min read
The Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund believes that when children lead, the digital world becomes more humane, more creative, and more just
ASSAF

Hopes pinned on Dr Naledi Mbude to improve SA’s abysmal reading scores

Mbude is now Deputy Director-General for Special Projects including African language education, seen by many as a key to improving child literacy

  • Michael Cherry
5 min read
The market requires entrepreneurialism, innovation, critical thinking, decisiveness and problem-solving abilities, but most schools and tertiary institutions don’t support this. Photo: AFP
BOSTON COLLEGE

Graduates and their unemployment dilemma

South African university graduates are willing to take menial jobs because of the dearth of suitable employment despite being highly educated

  • Zandile Bangani
7 min read
While the drought was about the lack of accumulating and circulating water, the transport-related crisis is about the non-movement of humans, their goods, and their economic potential. (David Harrison/M&G)
ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORT

Seeking mobility justice

The drought-related day zero and the mobility day zero have more in common than you may think, writes Dr Bradley Rink

  • Staff Reporter
6 min read
Professor Narend Baijnath said an institution can lose its accreditation if
BONGEKILE MACUPE

Eight universities get full LLB accreditation; five more in the balance

Universities that faced the risk of losing their accreditation for the bachelor of laws qualification are off the hook

  • Bongekile Macupe
3 min read
Times gone by: Dutch and English ships sought safe harbour in the Cape’s Table Bay
AFRIKAANS

Poets reclaim Cape Town’s historical narrative

A jamboree of poets traverses the city, feels it’s pain and emerges to restore what was taken

  • Faye Kabali-Kagwa
6 min read
The Incoming chief justice Raymond Zondo cautioned against populist accusations that the judiciary is captured. (Paul Botes/M&G)
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS

​Campus politics signals a jump to the left, say student leaders

The Economic Freedom Fighters and Pan Africanist movement dominate Cape university SRCs.

  • Given Sigauqwe
4 min read