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400 000 opportunities for Class of 2013
A "catalogue of opportunities" and more than R8.3-million in financial assistance is available to school leavers wishing to further their education, Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande said on Thursday after congratulating the 2013 matriculants for the highest school pass rate since 1994. -
New R1m scholarships for SA's poorest
The government has partnered with Wits University to offer Equality Scholarships, worth about R100 000 each. These will be awarded to the top 10 matriculants from schools in South Africa's poorest areas who choose to attend the Johannesburg university. -
WEF to screen Mandela movie
South African producer Anant Singh will receive a Crystal Award at this year's World Economic Forum meeting in Davos where his movie Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom will be screened. "I hope the film will inspire the delegates as Madiba did in his first address at the annual meeting in 1991," he says. -
Elusive Knysna elephant caught on camera
One of Knysna's elusive elephants has been captured on camera after triggering a camera trap set for leopard research, SA National Parks said on Thursday. While the photo makes identification difficult, it's an important contribution to the parks' database on South Africa's only unfenced elephant group. -
Wits team shows how lightning shapes mountains
South African scientists at Wits University in Johannesburg have been featured in National Geographic for their "shocking" work that shows that it is lightning - rather than ice and heat - that is the main force shaping the Drakensberg summits. -
We're all behind you, De Lille tells Bafana
"Go out there and do the nation proud," Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille told Bafana Bafana when she visited them at their training camp ahead of their opening match of the 2014 African Nations Championships (Chan) at the Cape Town Stadium on Saturday.
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- WEF to screen Mandela movie
- 400 000 opportunities for Class of 2013
- We're all behind you, De Lille tells Bafana
- New R1m scholarships for SA's poorest
- Wits team shows how lightning shapes mountains
- Two to debut for MTN-Qhubeka in Gabon
- Elusive Knysna elephant caught on camera
- Chan 2014: Make us proud, Mbalula tells Bafana
- Leonardo's legacy on display
- Wits unit aims to demystify lightning
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