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EDUCATION

What Vhembe’s success teaches us about quality education in South Africa

In 2020, Nelson Mandela University physics professor, Azwinndini Muronga, wrote in the Mail & Guardian about Vhembe’s remarkable performance in the 2019 national senior…

  • Azwinndini Muronga
8 min read
Nelson Mandela University’s Professor Azwinndini Muronga. (Heather Dugmore)
4IR

What Vhembe’s success teaches us about quality education in South Africa

In 2020, Nelson Mandela University physics professor, Azwinndini Muronga, wrote in the Mail & Guardian about Vhembe’s remarkable performance in the 2019 national senior…

  • Azwinndini Muronga
8 min read
An outreach programme aimed at boosting participation in STEM subjects in Limpopo has highlighted the concerns and dreams of the next generation
COLLABORATION

Collaboration key to solving Africa’s science problems

An outreach programme aimed at boosting participation in STEM subjects in Limpopo has highlighted the concerns and dreams of the next generation

  • Azwinndini Muronga
  • Natasha Potgieter
  • Eric Maluta
5 min read
EDITORSPICKS

UN Development Programme South Africa backs ‘dirty’ Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone

The SEZ in Limpopo’s Vhembe district will still be fuelled by a coal-fired power plant

  • Lisa Thompson
  • Hazel Shirinda
7 min read
The Mutavhatsindi tree is described as “the most wanted medicinal tree” in the Vhembe district and is intensely exploited for its medicinal bark and roots. (Brita Lomba, CC BY-SA 3.0)
CRITICALLY ENDANGERED

Race to save Limpopo’s magical Mutavhatsindi tree

For the first time, conservation team have now successfully propagated critically endangered species

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read
The lived reality for women in South Africa is they get turned away at our police stations. They are told that domestic violence is a family matter. They are sent from one office to another. If they do actually get someone willing to open their case, the case files disappear into delay
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Gender-based violence shelters go without critical government funding

Nonprofit organisations that provide trauma counselling and shelter to survivors of rape and violence have had to shut their doors

  • Marcia Zali
2 min read
Comrades in arms: (from left) Stanley Mathabatha, Florence Radzilani, Soviet Lekganyane, Bishop Israel Makamu and Daniel Msiza during the ANC’s Limpopo provincial conference in June 2018 in Polokwane. The party has reinstated Radzilani and Msiza, who are among the people implicated in the looting of VBS Mutual Bank. (Photo: Antonio Muchave/Gallo Images/Sowetan)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

VBS looting haunts the ANC in Limpopo

The ANC is facing a revolt over the looting of VBS bank, which took money from poor communities, with warnings of electoral consequences in 2021 local elections

  • Thanduxolo Jika
  • Mail Guardian Correspondent
7 min read