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Unemployment among young people a ‘ticking time bomb’: Mmusi Maimane

Staff Reporter Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane on Saturday referred to the high rate of unemployment among young South Africans as a “ticking time bomb”. Addressing...

Uganda: Makerere summons 332 former students over exam malpractice

Urn The central adhoc regularities and malpractices (alteration of marks) committee of Makerere University has summoned a total of 332 former students to defend themselves...

Cuba to support Liberia’s literacy programme

Front Page Africa Liberia's Vice President Chief /Dr. Jewel Howard-Taylor has received in audience the Charge' D'Affairs of the Embassy of the Republic of Cuba...

Zimbabwean children miss exams as Home Affairs sends them from city to city

Tariro Washinyira    Three Zimbabwean refugee children aged 7, 12 and 14, have been out of school for two weeks and missed examinations because they had...

Empowering women farmers in Zimbabwe

Project Syndicate  In Zimuto Communal Land, near Masvingo, southern Zimbabwe, VaMaNyoni walks long distances with maize or beans stacked high on her head, looking for...

Equal Education and MEC Debbie Schäfer reach agreement

Tariro Washinyira     The Western Cape Education Department will wait before taking any action following allegations of sexual misconduct against three people in Equal Education,...

Zimbabwe: The nightmare of menstruation for poor girls

Mirirai Nsingo Fifteen-year-old Belinda** from Highfield, Harare misses school every time she goes through her menstrual cycle. Apart from the dysmenorrhea (also known as painful...

African countries want to accelerate the 4th industrial revolution, what about the first three?

Thuletho Zwane One of the more pertinent questions asked at the African Development Bank (AfDB) 2018 annual meetings was whether African states could strategically and...

Namibia: First Lady rejects Curro Holdings school deal link

Shinovene Immanuel First Lady Monica Geingos says the company that wants to build a N$200 million private school in Windhoek misinformed the education ministry in...

Science in Africa: homegrown solutions and talent must come first

Alan Christoffels It’s been a recurring refrain: Africa still lags woefully behind the rest of the world in generating new scientific knowledge. As figures collated by the World...

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