Young people must be actively involved in establishing new mechanisms of conducting viable businesses that are in sync with the inventions of the 21st century, says Minister in the Presidency for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, Jeff Radebe. “As government, we have adopted clearly defined policies and procedures to ensure... Read more

Jody Lee Bell (24) has a lot on her plate: She’s a full-time masters’ student in the Haematology Division of Stellenbosch University’s (SU) Faculty of Medicine Health Sciences, works part-time at Tygerberg Hospital’s biobank and made time to enter Miss Deaf SA 2017, where she was named second princess.... Read more

The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering Open Day takes place on Wednesday, 22 November 2017 at the EECE (North and South Buildings) on the Howard College campus (Main entrance, Gate 1) from 14h00 to 17h30. The Final-Year Design projects to be displayed form the pinnacle of the design activities in the EECE four-year degree programmes.  The projects undertaken... Read more

Meet MiiA, a self-assembly robot designed to help schoolgoers start learning about electronics, programming and robotics from a young age. MiiA is the first innovation of RD9 Solutions, a start-up created by two UCT engineering graduates, Tyrone van Balla and Ridhaa Benefeld. The business aims to tackle societal problems... Read more

The Executive Director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé, has appointed the Associate Scientific Director of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, Quarraisha Abdool Karim, as a UNAIDS Special Ambassador for Adolescents and HIV. The announcement was made in Cape Town during the launch of a... Read more

Broadening student access and success, enhancing research excellence, accelerating transformation of the staff body and ensuring relevance of the curriculum. These are the four core elements Prof Ingrid Woolard, newly appointed dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at Stellenbosch University (SU), has identified as key to... Read more

Not only did the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Pretoria (UP) celebrate a hundred years of agriculture at a prestigious event on 7 November, but it also recognised Dr Johan van Zyl, former Vice-Chancellor and Principal of UP and current CEO of African Rainbow... Read more