Published on: Friday, May 07, 2021
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In this file photo taken on October 1, 2019 Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex arrives at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
LONDON: A British court upheld Meghan Markle’s copyright claim against Associated Newspapers, the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and MailOnline, over its publication of a letter to her father.
The ruling by judge Mark Warby means the Duchess of Sussex, as Markle is formally known, has now won every part of her legal claim against the newspaper group, which published a handwritten letter she wrote to her father Thomas Markle.
FLASHPOINT
Africa could be massive battlefield in ‘inevitable’ war between the US and China as Xi stakes claim to continent
Patrick Knox
13:07, 6 May 2021
AFRICA could become a massive battlefield in a war between China and the United States as the President Xi Jinping stakes claim to the continent, experts warned.
The Communist Party is quietly expanding into the eastern part of Africa as it sets up military bases and expands its influence through infrastructure projects across in at least 11 nations.
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China has been investing heavily in African countries infrastructure as it consolidates its power and influence in Africa with its base in Djibouti to counter Japanese, French and US presence
Academics voice their support of Heathfield High School Principal Wesley Neumann
By Opinion
School education has been at the forefront of responses to the pandemic.
The sector has had to make hard life-and-death decisions about the health and safety of our school communities â our students, staff, and parents.
In mid-2020, after an initial period of complete lockdown, schools and school authorities in the Western Cape and other provinces grappled with the question of the return of students and teachers to classrooms â do we return at all?
Parents, teachers and learners were confronted with uncertainty amid the risk of infection, illness and death.
Contemporary Campus Life: Transformation, Manic Managerialism and Academentia is being launched.
Contemporary Campus Life’s analysis of managerialism as a cause of academentia is framed by exigencies imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic. My argument is that the virus has brought about an ecological correction that affects all human and animal kinds, one that management (as distinct from management theory) can learn from.
My satirical critique of market-driven neoliberalism as applied to institutions is offered as a metaphor to analyse the excesses, contradictions and obstructions in contemporary university governance. Such governance is examined via the quirks of unresponsive administrative systems. These affect lived relations within the academy, in teaching and research practice, science and reasoning. I argue, as does Seekings, that these have life-threatening implications. The academy is not a necessarily safe space.
University of Johannesburg has slashed its contracts for off-campus student housing, leaving one company high and dry 04 May 2021 - 20:10
A company that spent R60m to develop a building to house University of Johannesburg students near its Doornfontein campus is now unable to access government funding for students who stay there.
The company, Gaetal, made renovations to a building last year, with the aim of housing 366 students who received National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) funding in 2021.
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