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Menstrual products used by millions of South Africans may contain hormone-disrupting chemicals, including in items marketed as free from harmful chemicals, according to new research from the University of the Free State (UFS).
The Economic Freedom Fighters Molly Blackburn Sub Region has condemned what it calls the centralisation and “creeping privatisation” of student funding and accommodation by the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS), warning that the system is excluding poor students and exposing them to unsafe living conditions.
To date, South Africa’s school assistants programme has created more than 1.3 million work opportunities, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in his weekly newsletter on Monday.
Losing her father to chemotherapy-related complications three years ago spurred Dr Bawinile Hadebe to explore improved approaches to cancer treatment, a pursuit that has earned her the Saul Hertz Young Investigator Award.
The resignation of Roedean School’s principal has intensified a row that Jewish groups allege amounts to antisemitism, after the Johannesburg private girls’ school cancelled a tennis fixture against King David High School earlier this month.
The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) said it is finalising the appointment of a law firm to probe the circumstances surrounding the death of a Grade R boy learner from Bernard Isaacs Primary School in Coronationville, Johannesburg.
