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The Eastern Cape chapter offers school teachers a free webinar, to enhance their knowledge of emerging technologies.

OPINION: However, by taking a long-term view and investing in, identifying and nurturing talent, the impact may be more challenging to measure, writes Prof Jean Greyling.

Leva Foundation, Nelson Mandela University Partners 1Billion Africa To Teach Unplugged Coding In Ghana

While Felicia didn’t know much about 4IR last year, along with more than 100 of her peers – women over 50 years of age living in some of the most crime-ridden areas of the Western Cape – she can now not only code successfully but also train other people in her community.

The course of Buhle Pikoli’s entire life changed one July afternoon, on Mandela Day in 2018, when he played TANKS for the first time at Cowan High School in New Brighton.

THE Red Band Barista Academy, headquartered in Gqeberha, has recently received one of the highest measures of success in the coffee industry in South Africa.

Gqeberha’s Red Band Barista Academy recently received one of the highest accolades of success in the national coffee industry.

THREE months after Mandela Day, when 6 000 learners from all nine provinces in South Africa, as well as Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Zambia, participated in a #Coding4Mandela event, the lives of even more young people have been transformed through coding.

Confronted with a desperate need to introduce coding in schools that did not have computer la­­boratories, a professor and one of his honours students turned to the age-old craft of ­building puzzles.

Making coding more accessible to young people across Africa has taken on an even more inclusive role with a new project piloted in Gqeberha.