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Students plan shutdown of 26 universities to highlight issue of financial exclusion
By: News24Wire 15th March 2021 Mass protest action across the country is expected on Monday as students from 26 different universities plan on bringing all institutions to a... →
Daily Podcast – March 10, 2021
By: Thabi Shomolekae 10th March 2021 Making headlines: Eskom to implement Stage 2 load-shedding from 17:00 until Friday night; UCT still top university in Africa; And, Northern Cape... →
UCT still top university in Africa, among top 10 emerging economy universities
By: Sane Dhlamini 10th March 2021 The University of Cape Town has upheld its position as top university in Africa and now ranks 10th among universities in countries with emerging... →
Granular understanding of joblessness in South Africa can help pinpoint policies
10th March 2021 The longest upswing in the South African economy in the last three decades was when it grew at an average rate of 4% per annum between 1998 and... →
Women in Tech to observe International Women’s Day
5th March 2021 The next installment of the Women in Tech Conversations virtual forum hosted by legal technology firm, LexisNexis South Africa, and information... →
Covid-19 holds lessons for the future of social protection
24th February 2021 Food security experts in South Africa warned early on that the lockdown instituted to manage the spread of Covid-19 would threaten children’s... →
South African Child Gauge 2020 – Food and nutrition security
19th February 2021 This double burden of malnutrition can occur in the same household or even the same individual. For example, children who are stunted early in... →
Child malnutrition is a slow form of violence – report
By: Thabi Shomolekae 18th February 2021 South Africa’s burden of child malnutrition remains unacceptably high for a middle-income country, placing it as an outlier among countries of... →