Astro-tourism is a niche form of tourism where visitors explore the night sky through stargazing events, guided tours, educational presentations and digital astronomy experiences. Unlike mass tourism, astro-tourism focuses on learning rather than just sightseeing.
For decades, South Africa has grappled with an education system that seems to promise much but deliver little. Despite commendable reforms and bursts of innovation, the country’s schools remain unequal, under-resourced, and often poorly governed. The result is a crisis that goes far deeper than declining mathematics enrolments or underperforming universities: it is a crisis of national competence.
Higher Education and Training Minister Buti Manamela has intervened at the Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT), meeting the institution’s council and management amid renewed governance and leadership instability following the end of its administration period.
National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) acting CEO Waseem Carrim says the entity has entered a “new era of stability, governance reform and operational rebuilding” after years of turbulence, delays and governance failures that shook confidence across the higher education sector.
The principal of Samit Christian Academy, an independent school in Kempton Park, Gauteng, was killed in what police confirmed as a house robbery in the early hours of Sunday in Maokeng Extension, Tembisa.
The Pretoria High Court has dismissed the Information Regulator’s urgent bid to halt the release of the 2025 matric results, striking the application from the roll with costs in a judgment delivered on Friday.
