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Virtual world left out of policy on universities’ international collaboration

Opinion Ylva Rodny-Gumede - 22 Nov 2020

The pandemic has underlined the need for effective research, teaching and learning through virtual platforms regardless of travel restrictions

Covid-19 causes Acsa to dust off its begging bowl

Business Thando Maeko - 7 Nov 2020

The SOE has asked the government for R3.5-billion in extra support over the next three years to offset losses incurred because of the pandemic

Level one loading: Almost back to normal

Coronavirus Lester Kiewit, Paddy Harper, Sarah Smit & Thando Maeko - 16 Sep 2020

President Cyril Ramaphosa announces South Africa will move to level one of lockdown on September 20 after nearly six months of restrictions on movement, trade, learning and socialising

UK economy loses £22bn as virus ravages tourism: study

Coronavirus Agence France Presse - 26 Aug 2020

Britain's economy will lose about £22-billion this year on the coronavirus-induced collapse of global travel, which could imperil three million jobs

Long road ahead for tourism-sector recovery

Business Thando Maeko - 9 Aug 2020

The pandemic has caused 50 000 businesses in the sector to temporarily close, putting 600 000 jobs at risk

International students need equal care

Coronavirus Nico Jooste & Cornelius Hagenmeier - 1 Jul 2020

Contradictory pandemic regulations could to be putting critical training in jeopardy

End voluntourism and the white saviour industrial complex

Africa Rosebell Kagumire - 26 Jun 2020

We need to dismantle the unequal systems we have upheld in Africa. Divesting from missionary tours is a good place to start

Ramaphosa — ‘We are still near the beginning of this epidemic’

Coronavirus Paddy Harper & Lester Kiewit - 17 Jun 2020

President’s address covered the twin pandemics of Covid-19 and the murder and rape of women ‘who were killed by men'

The great untethering and the airlines’ flat spin

Coronavirus Guy Oliver - 23 May 2020

If record vinyls and iTunes can co-exist in the Technological Age, Wi-Fi will allow ocean liners a slice of the airlines’ global travel monopoly

Open letter: Mr Biden, America must lead the next global catastrophe

Coronavirus Charles R Stith - 16 May 2020

Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis was a textbook example of what not to do, you will have to do it all differently

The coronavirus and the rise of the network society

Article Bert Olivier - 2 May 2020

Two kinds of virus, one biological and the other digital, have spread around the world, changing society and creating social elites

A bicycle ride through Namibia’s sheltering desert

Article Kevin Davie - 30 Aug 2019

The 700km route takes in the Namib-Naukluft’s Kuiseb canyon where two German geologists hid during World War II to avoid internment

Africa’s Travel Indaba teams up with local street art talent in Durban

Article Advertorial - 26 Apr 2019

Four acclaimed local artists have painted a 22m wall mural inside the Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre

Airbnb Africa

Article Tamsin Oxford - 24 Apr 2019

Trailblazing disruption

Lebo Malepa

Article Tehillah Nieselow - 24 Apr 2019

Founder: Lebo’s Soweto Backpackers

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FNB dragged into bribery claims

khaya koko - 3 Dec 2020

Allegations of bribery against the bank’s chief executive, Jacques Celliers, thrown up in a separate court case

National

This is how the SIU catches crooks

Athandiwe Saba - 3 Dec 2020

Athandiwe Saba talked to the Special Investigating Unit’s Andy Mothibi about its caseload, including 1 000 Covid contracts

Health

Tighter Covid restrictions for N. Mandela Bay — other hotspots may follow

Sarah Smit & Mg Data Desk - 3 Dec 2020

With the number of cases spiralling out of control in hotspots in the Eastern Cape and Western Cape, longer curfews and restrictions on alcohol sales are being implemented

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Dr Sumy Thomas: Deciphering the human puzzle, from the inside out

special reports - 4 Dec 2020

The Discovery Foundation MGH Fellowship Award recipient for 2020 will focus on internal medicine, particularly the endocrine system of patients affected by HIV

Special Reports

Touching lives through innovation

special reports - 30 Nov 2020

Africa has a high youth population that adapts to technology quickly, and this phenomenon is something which should be taken advantage of

Special Reports

Festive Reading

special reports - 30 Nov 2020

In The Whistleblowers, Mandy Wiener talks to a wide range of the people who have revealed corruption and malfeasance in government and business

Special Reports

Centre for Women & Gender Studies

special reports - 30 Nov 2020

The CWGS aims to resuscitate the histories of African women from all walks of life in an intellectual cleansing/ukuhlambulula of her story

Special Reports

Greening the Future

special reports - 30 Nov 2020

The awards are a way of encouraging progress and celebrating those who wake up every day and work to make this country a better more sustainable place

Special Reports

Failing to learn the lessons? The impact of Covid-19 on a Broken and Unequal Education System

special reports - 30 Nov 2020

If the president was serious about fixing basic education, he would appoint his most competent minister with a powerful mandate to start fixing it

Special Reports

National Science and Technology Forum

special reports - 27 Nov 2020

It's an independent SETI platform, an essential element of an active democracy and an important part of the collaboration process needed in SETI

Special Reports

Milestones over the NSTF’s 25-year history

special reports - 27 Nov 2020

The organisation celebrates its Silver Jubilee as an established player in the NSI and as promoter and influencer of SET and innovation in South Africa