2+ hour, 44+ min ago  (1061+ words) Ponte City's grand opening was in 1975. Standing at 54 storeys and 173m, she was the tallest building in Africa for 48 years straight. She was beaten by a skyscraper in Egypt, measuring a mere 5m taller. Her fall from grace to grimy led her…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (675+ words) Each year, South Africans listen to the national budget speech, hoping that billions allocated to public services will translate into meaningful improvements. On paper, the 2026 budget looks promising. More than a third of the national budget is earmarked for health…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (1576+ words) The public service announcement that aired on Radio Sonder Grense, the Afrikaans arm of the South African Broadcasting Corporation, in October 2024, didn't mince words." "Fizzy drinks and fruit juice make our children sick," a speaker said in Afrikaans. With every…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (934+ words) You cannot force a square peg into a round hole, as the saying goes. And yet, at the start of each year , we are confronted with the same images of queues of young people outside the gates of universities and…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (420+ words) The 88% national pass rate recorded for last year's matric students is nothing to be sniffed at. It is particularly encouraging that more than 656 000 learners passed the National Senior Certificate examinations, out of more than 900 000 who wrote the high school ending…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (738+ words) Across sub-Saharan Africa, approximately 34 million adolescent girls of secondary school age remain out of school, according to Unesco statistics. This is a travesty in light of the gains girls make in primary school, where they outperform boys in many African…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1615+ words) Hi Unathi, how can I help you today?" "PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, is medication for HIV-negative folks to take daily that really helps reduce their chances of getting HIV by over 99% when used correctly. It's super effective after about 7 days…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (351+ words) The partnership between the Garden Cities Archway Foundation, the Western Cape Education Department, and the Advancing Knowledge Non-Profit Company (AK NPC) has continued its mission to improve the infrastructure in which STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) subjects are taught....

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1177+ words) The Natural Sciences curriculum content taught during the third and fourth school terms was covered in the final training session organized by Advancing Knowledge Non-Profit Company. This session took place on 15 August 2025 in the science laboratory at Noorder Paarl High…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (388+ words) I recently sat in a departmental colloquium where students were defending their research proposals before a panel of academics. Anyone who has gone through this exercise will attest the process of defending your master's or PhD proposal is, at best,…...