3+ hour, 15+ min ago  (1358+ words) There is a quiet revolution happening in classrooms across SA, and most adults in the room have no idea it is already well under way. While policymakers debate frameworks, while committees draft and redraft national strategies, and while school governing…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago  (790+ words) I am writing about a subject that South Africans have been speaking about for years, ever since youth unemployment reached levels so severe that no amount of political rhetoric could conceal the reality any longer. Perhaps editors have grown tired…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (435+ words) Eastern Cape social development MEC Bukiwe Fanta has used World Autism Day commemorations to highlight the province's growing network of special daycare centres supporting children with autism and other disabilities. Speaking during a community awareness campaign in the Joe Gqabi…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (823+ words) Losing his father to drug addiction and suicide motivated Luqmaan Ismail, 34, to dedicate his life to helping young people through sport and life skills programmes in Mdantsane, Duncan Village, and surrounding areas. Ismail joined the Edu Sport non-profit organisation in…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (728+ words) On a smallholding near Glengariff on the East Coast, six children with severe disabilities and complex medical needs are growing up in a home built around care, dignity and hope. i Themba Home, founded by Dr Gigi Ranjana, whose work…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (206+ words) Education and health authorities in the Eastern Cape are awaiting lab results after 39 pupils were rushed to hospital with suspected food poisoning. The incident, which affected pupils from the Ekuphumleni Matric Revision Centre in Whittlesea, occurred on Sunday evening. The…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (435+ words) Rhodes University will host the Eastern Cape's first higher education-focused health and safety symposium on May 8 at the Amazwi SA Museum of Literature in Makhanda. The event will bring together universities across the province to strengthen collaboration on campus safety…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1633+ words) Eastern Cape artist Llise Dodd studied music, a decision that enriched her life, but then art chose her and she has been in its embrace ever since. Knysna-born Dodd, 57, lives on a farm in the Elands River Valley where she…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (585+ words) i Yunivesithi Walter Sisulu (previously known as Walter Sisulu University) has been urged to play a leading role in advancing SA's ambitions in science, technology and innovation as Dr Thandi Mgwebi was officially inaugurated as vice-chancellor and principal. Speaking at…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago  (605+ words) Volunteers across the Eastern Cape are being invited to take part in free autism screening training ahead of World Autism Awareness Day on April 2, as part of a global initiative aimed at reaching thousands of children. The programme, led locally…...