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Heightened police visibility this Easter weekend

Today at 11:55 AM, via SAnews

Heightened police visibility this Easter weekend

Law enforcement and border security measures are in place to ensure the safety of all this Easter holiday period, Cabinet said on Thursday.

“There will be heightened police visibility across the country aimed at preventing, combating and at the same time, countering serious and violent crime during the holiday period and beyond,”...

Politics

Steenhuisen: A DA-ANC coalition not off the table

Today at 12:00 PM, via Mail & Guardian

The Democratic Alliance leader says a coalition with the governing party might be the ‘least worst option to prevent the radicals from taking over’

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John Steenhuisen: It’s elitist to exclude people from public office because they don’t have a degree

Today at 11:59 AM, via Mail & Guardian

The Democratic Alliance leader said he respected people for getting a degree but university could not have taught him what he knows after 23 years in politics

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Education

Ethiopia: Ethiopia, Japan Solidifying Education Partnerships

Today at 12:04 PM, via AllAfrica

[Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABABA — Japan needs to expand and deepen its diplomatic and economic relations with Ethiopia through education and people-to-people ties, the country’s ambassador said.

Education

‘Cultural and social vandalism’: mass redundancy plans at Goldsmiths attacked

Yesterday at 21:24 PM, via The Guardian

Union claims up to a quarter of all academic roles at financially pressed London institution face the axe

Plans for mass redundancies at Goldsmiths, University of London, have been called a “horrifying act of cultural and social vandalism” and the “biggest assault on jobs at any UK university in recent years”.

The job cuts, which are now subject to a consultation, are the latest in a series of...

Entertainment

Brand SA pays homage to amapiano music genre

Today at 08:39 AM, via SowetanLIVE

Amapiano is SA’s best cultural export internationally,” proclaims Jimmy Ranamane, Brand South Africa’s general manager for global markets.

Health

Ice Skating and the Brain

Yesterday at 21:38 PM, via New York Times

How do champion skaters accomplish their extraordinary jumps and spins? Brain science is uncovering clues.