If events in the Middle East over the past two years have taught us anything, it is that Arab public opinion now matters to the world.
South Africa’s national anthem is the only one in the world to contain stanzas in five different languages. Read more facts about national anthems.
Zhang Yimou’s new movie, The Flowers of War, is the equivalent of a megabudget two-and-a-half-hour South African movie about the Sharpeville massacre.
Three decades and 11 albums in, the Pet Shop Boys still
feel like they are renting their place as unlikely pop stars.
Alan Hollinghurst says that, unlike Brideshead Revisited, his novels show the brutal side of riches.
With its first big-five wildlife park, and new lodges springing up, Malawi is taking on the big boys in the safari stakes.
Cape Town has launched tourism into the twittersphere. Tourism chief executive Mariette du Toit-Helmbold talks social networking and #LoveCapeTown.
Levi Roots, the singing chef, along with his guitar, has been booked for the Good Food and Wine Show in Johannesburg this weekend.
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/ 21 September 2012
What is the impact of open online courses on pedagogy, completion rates and fees in higher education?
If the US is anything to go by, the large-scale failure of for-profit institutions should be a lesson to those who want higher education privatised.