From California, Prof Jansen frets SA now “living in the age of unreason.”
South African academic leader Prof Jonathan Jansen says a growing crisis in SA’s education sector portends a grim future for the country.
University of the Free State
Gwede Mantashe: “If I was the Minister, I’d close universities for six months.”
South African universities suspended classes and closed campuses as police clashed with students protesting tuition fee increases and demanding free education.
Inspired Leaf Farm – Jimmy Botha
Meet Jimmy Botha, a former telecommunications worker who followed his dream to become a farmer, and is now a Woolworths Farming For Future supplier.
Bacon & Eggs with the VC: Jonathan Jansen mentoring first years
Biznews community member David Melville looks at mentorship and the value it brings to the ‘life’ education of university students, something University of the Free State VC Jonathan Jansen has taken to another level.
Students marching to parliament, target Mini Budget disruption
Protesting University of Cape Town students have started making their way to Parliament ahead of Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene’s Mini Budget.
UPDATED RANKING: SA’s 14 universities rated against BRICS – mostly sliding
South Africa’s 14 universities have mostly slipped on the QS University Rankings, which compares the Top 400 institutions in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
As Rhodes statue falls, white backlash rises
As preparations were made to remove the statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes from the University of Cape Town Thursday, white groups launched protests to protect what they see as their heritage.
EFF wants its own newspaper, online TV and radio
EFF’s George Nyakama told party delegates in Bloemfontein that the party should launch its own radio station and newspaper.
SA mourns slain Pierre Korkie, ex-Grey College teacher who just wanted to help
South Africa was mourning on Sunday a teacher who had left a comfortable life back home to help children in Yemen, but was taken hostage and killed in a botched attempt to rescue a US hostage.
SA could be forced to write-off chunk of shale gas-rich Karoo if safe fracking impossible
That there is lots of shale gas in the Karoo is unquestioned. The apparently conservative update by the US’s EIA puts the deposit at the equivalent of more than 300 years of the country’s current annual crude oil consumption. But can it be commercially fracked, brought to the surface at the kind of costs the … Read more