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AGRICULTURE

AgriSETA targets agricultural skills to tackle youth unemployment and food insecurity

AgriSETA CEO Fanny Phetla outlines how targeted agricultural education, digital farming skills and youth-focused business incubators can address South Africa's unemployment and…

  • Brian Sokutu
3 min read
For years, women in South Africa have called on government to lead the charge on ending men’s violence against women. (David Harrison/M&G)
GENDER BASED VIOLENCE

Shattering the cycle: Confronting the crisis of gender-based violence

With a woman murdered every three hours in South Africa, the tragic discoveries in Ekurhuleni highlight the urgent need to dismantle systemic failures and confront the…

  • Ntombi Khumalo
7 min read
HIGHER EDUCATION

UNISA Statement on Xenophobic Violence in South Africa

The Senate of the University of South Africa strongly condemns xenophobic violence, reaffirming its dedication to Pan-African solidarity, human dignity, and cross-border academic…

  • Unisa
9 min read
ECONOMY

'Invest in women to unlock billions in the economy'

Economic leaders and policymakers at the Standard Bank Top Women conference urged Africa to invest in women, highlighting that closing gender gaps could unlock hundreds of…

  • Brian Sokutu
5 min read
HIGHER EDUCATION

Foreign academics are not the problem South African universities need to solve

A parliamentary briefing by Minister Buti Manamela has reignited the debate around foreign academics in South African universities. While public concern about employment is…

  • Nancy Dusani
6 min read
While aggregate joblessness was historically high before 1994, the rate of young people locked out of the economy has surged to unprecedented levels, defining this generation's struggle
YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT

Youth Day at 50: The new struggle is the fight for a future

Youth Day honours the young people who rose up in Soweto in 1976 — students who paid with their lives to resist an education system deliberately engineered to diminish them.…

  • Linda Meyer
6 min read