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Education crucial for Africa - Tony Blair
Education crucial for Africa - Tony Blair
[Danette Breitenbach] Part of attracting investment to a country is education... read
E-learning
Playing Minecraft today will prevent R2D2 taking your job tomorrow
Playing Minecraft today will prevent R2D2 taking your job tomorrow

Stephen Reid

Technology has deeply embedded itself within the modern workplace, enabling companies of all sizes to use innovation to disrupt the market, tackle challenges, take up opportunities and create demand for their offerings... read
Higher Education
Entries close on 18 April for the SingularityU Southern Africa GIC
Entries close on 18 April for the SingularityU Southern Africa GIC

Issued by Mann Made Media

Entries close on 18 April for the Singularity University, Global Impact Challenge. This challenge is an open call to innovators, entrepreneurs, scientists, and technologists to foster moonshot innovations and startups that positively impact the lives of people living in southern Africa... read
Abel Sithole
MBA students encouraged to view Africa from a new perspective
Addressing attendees at a panel discussion on the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Africa, Abel Sithole, senior research associate at the Institute of Futures Research (IFR) of the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB), asked “What is Africa to you?” read
SA students compete in KPMG International Case Competition
SA students compete in KPMG International Case Competition
A team of four top students from Witwatersrand (WITS) and University of Pretoria (UP) have headed to Lisbon to compete in the annual KPMG International Case Competition (KICC)... read
Primary & Secondary Education
A bit for now and a bit for education - Simple. Social. Schooling
A bit for now and a bit for education - Simple. Social. Schooling

Issued by ADDaBIT

Yolinda Koesnel is an educator and visionary in her small community of Rowallan Park, a previously disadvantaged area in Port Elizabeth. ADDaBIT had a chat to Yolinda about her school and her vision for impacting her community through creating a fund... read
Skills Training
SMME skills development workshop empowers rural women
SMME skills development workshop empowers rural women

Issued by Ithala Development Finance Corporation

The top 20 nominees in the “Imbokodo Iyazenzela” Women in SMMEs Awards 2016 were hosted at a business skills development workshop in Durban... read
New skills networking platform for healthcare funders
New skills networking platform for healthcare funders
The Board of Healthcare Funders has established a networking platorms where middle managers can share ideas and hone skills... read
SACAP catapults transformation through RPL programme
SACAP catapults transformation through RPL programme

Yashaen Luckan

The South African Council for the Architectural Profession (SACAP) is about to unveil an online platform that will launch its Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) programme... read
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Drone industry closing the skills gap through training
A plethora of job opportunities exists for drone pilots, an untapped sector ready and waiting to train students, address the lack of skills in the industry, and boost the country's employment rate. read
Nzimande launches Umgungundlovu TVET College
Nzimande launches Umgungundlovu TVET College
Higher Education and Training minister Blade Nzimande has launched the Umgungundlovu TVET College Recognition of Prior Learning Assessment Centre in KwaZulu-Natal... read
Breaking ground in management development
Breaking ground in management development

Mark Orpen

The managerial ladder is often built with rungs that depend on technical expertise... read
Africa
A Unicef team creating a collaborative paper plane.
Photo credit: Unicef
How learning empathy can help build better community projects in Africa

Keneilwe Munyai

Empathy is one of the most important skills any leader can have. A huge 2015 research project across 38 countries found that empathy makes leaders more effective and their businesses more successful... read
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Business
Minister invites public inputs on ICT strategies
Minister invites public inputs on ICT strategies
The Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services invites members of society to provide written inputs on three strategies that are aimed at leveraging technology to modernise service delivery... read
Business
SARB's new loop structure allows foreign investment for startups
SARB's new loop structure allows foreign investment for startups
Local unlisted research and development companies can establish companies offshore in order to obtain foreign investment without prior approval... read
Jobs offered
Lecturer: Computer Science - Cape Town
Stellenbosch University currently seeks to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced lecturer: computer science (Ref. NW08/118/0317). Applications close 21 April 2017. Read more >>



Lecturer - Transport Economics - Cape Town
Stellenbosch University currently seeks to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced Lecturer: Transport Economics (Ref. EBW03/114/0317). Applications closes 19 April 2017. Read more >>

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