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In the latest news in South Africa on Thursday 19 August 2021, a recent study has found that White South Africans are most hesitant to get jabs.

Tebogo Letsie, Gallo Images, City Press The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure and the Special Investigating Unit have created a new anti-corruption forum. The forum is aimed at monitoring infrastructure projects more effectively and putting systems in place to detect and prevent corruption. Representatives of the forum include the NPA and the Hawks. The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure and the Special Investigating Unit have created a new anti-corruption forum aimed at monitoring infrastructure projects more effectively and putting systems in place to detect and prev...

Rethinking South Africa's macroeconomic policy approach CATEGORY: Latest News AUTHOR: Andrea Teagle We are in a historical time of momentous changes in macroeconomic thinking that have been driven by the need to respond to crises, said macroeconomics expert Dr Seeraj Mohamed, while speaking at the first of a series of Macroeconomic Policy Dialogues hosted by the Human Sciences Research Council. Mohamed and fellow economists Gilad Isaacs and Alexis Habiyaremye argued that fiscal stimulation is a critical and underutilised tool for overcoming and preventing socioeconomic crises like that preci...

The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Emeritus Professor Crain Soudien presented his research paper A Rereading of Kies’ ‘The Contribution of the Non-European Peoples to World Civilization’ during the second instalment of the Mafeje-Jordan Seminar Series, held on Wednesday 12 May 2021. Emeritus Professor Soudien is a former deputy vice-chancellor at UCT, where he continues to contribute to the School of Education and Centre for African Studies (CAS). He recently also concluded his term as CEO of the Human Sciences Research Council. Soudien’s extensive publication record in the areas...

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 – 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 – do we return at all? Parents, teachers and learners were confro...