Former Springbok skipper John Smit was full of praise during a United Rugby Championship media call earlier this week, calling the rise of the tournament and its overall success “phenomenal”.
Mariam Sonko works on training female farmers who traditionally have no access to education, explaining their rights and financing women-led agricultural projects. Sonko’s training center now employs over 20 people, with support from small organizations like the Agroecology Fund and CLIMA fund. In one week, Sonko and her team trained over 100 women from Senegal,… Read More »‘We Are the...
An investigation published by the UK-based human rights group Rights & Accountability in Development (Raid) and the Kinshasa-based NGO Afrewatch said that women and girls living around cobalt mines reported experiencing irregular menstruations, urogenital infections, vaginal mycoses and warts. According to the report, “a paediatrician, who has been recording patients’ data since 2016,...
The Mastercard Girls4Tech program is celebrating ten years of showing young girls the opportunities available to them in STEM careers. Over the years, this program has evolved from a simple curriculum to a comprehensive platform that nurtures and mentors many young girls from their formative years through to their entry into the workforce. Starting with… Read More »Creating Awareness of...
Chinese tech giant Huawei said on Friday its profits more than doubled in 2023, as it ramps up efforts to bounce back in a year that saw the company apparently defy US sanctions with the release of a high-end smartphone.
Swiss chocolatiers have a battle on their hands as Easter rolls around, with surging cocoa prices sending their costs soaring and consumers cutting back as inflation hits their pockets.
[New Era] Ondangwa — The Oshikoto region education directorate continues operating from offices in Ondangwa in the Oshana region, despite concerns over the associated costs.
Graduates are more likely to migrate to the big cities. But any political benefits from this are decidedly mixed
When I picture the state of the British economy outside London, it’s my sister I think of first. Born a year before me in the post-industrial town of Crewe in England’s north-west, at school there was little to separate us. Both of us did well in our GCSEs, at least compared with...
Fundamental restructuring must happen, along with an honest debate about what – and who – higher education is really for
Imagine a beach before the tsunami. Out at sea, the wave is gathering force, yet on the sand people are still sunbathing, blissfully unaware. That’s how it feels, one professor tells me, to be working in higher education. Academics by their nature don’t look outwards...
Artists, music lovers, media colleagues and honoured guests got together for the unveiling of the Metro FM Music Awards 2024 nominees on Wednesday evening in Bryanston, Johannesburg.
Lyle Smith reports via StorageReview.com: Proxmox has introduced a new import wizard for Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE), aiming to simplify the migration process for importing VMware ESXi VMs. This new feature comes at an important time in the industry, as it aims to ease the transition for these organizations looking to move away from VMware’s vSphere due to high renewal costs. The new...
Cases of trisomy 18 may rise as many states restrict abortion. But some women choose to have the babies, love them tenderly and care for them devotedly.
The new regulation reverses a Trump-era policy that expanded access to health plans with fewer benefits than those sold on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces.
Plans to end lion breeding began more than a decade ago as the practice of releasing tame big cats into small enclosures and having them shot by hunters for a fee spawned the term ‘canned hunting’ and attracted international condemnation.
South Africa may import significant amounts of white maize, used to make a staple food, for the first time since 2017 as the El Niño weather pattern withers the crop
Nestle SA plans to spend R2.5 billion ($132 million) over the next five years to improve growth and development of emerging local businesses across East and Southern Africa.
South African farmers are expected to harvest 19.3% less maize in the 2023/2024 season compared with the previous one, the government’s Crop Estimates Committee (CEC) said on Tuesday.