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The proposal highlights that South Africa’s universities and technical and vocational education and training colleges can become productive economic nodes distributed across all provinces
Amid the mostly depressing HIV headlines of recent times, concerned as they mainly are with the deadly impacts of donor defunding, South Africa’s imminent roll-out of a twice-yearly HIV prevention injection called lenacapavir (LEN) has been a spot of bright light. Staff in 360 healthcare facilities spread across the country stand trained and ready to […]
It is extremely important for all diesel refund users to familiarise themselves with the requirements of the current and new diesel refund scheme legislation and system changes, explains Kagiso Nonyana.
While management at Stellenbosch University projected stability and excellence, students, auditors and internal oversight bodies warned of chronic debt, unsafe housing, National Student Financial Aid Scheme failures and slow transformation
Spain on Monday said it took “all measures” to prevent hantavirus spreading from evacuees on a cruise ship hit by the virus, after French and US nationals tested positive.
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has called a special meeting of the national executive committee to dissect the Constitutional Court’s verdict in the Phala Phala saga.
The Madlanga commission has heard how the Hawks intercepted nearly a tonne of cocaine shipped from Brazil to Johannesburg in July 2021, after an initial intervention by Gauteng traffic officers
Several universities are facing deepening governance crises marked by institutional capture, leadership instability and weakened accountability systems, say higher education leaders and a Universities South Africa report
Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders has called on Niger’s Russian-backed military government to lift its sudden suspension of nine French media outlets. This coincides with major instability in neighbouring Mali.
The memory of the Covid-19 shock shapes how governments and publics react to any new outbreak with even a hint of international spread
National Assembly Speaker Thoko Didiza says the National Assembly will institute an impeachment committee as directed by the Constitutional Court.