A R9 million grant, which was awarded to the Wits University Centre for Rural-Based Education in the North West, has been hailed as a major boost for people of the province.
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has come out in support of the new Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Free State for what he calls a "magnanimous gesture" of forgiveness and reconciliation.
The organisers of the DFL Indian Premier League have launched one of the largest community programmes in South Africa by a sport organisation, committing more than R8 million to scholarship programmes around the country.
A charity concert in which former Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr performed together for the first time in seven years, is expected to bring Transcendental Meditation to thousands of school children in South Africa.
The “Change From Within” benefit concert took place in New York on Saturday, in support of the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace. The aim of he concert is to bring meditation to 1 million at-risk school children across the world.
Thirty thousand school children in South Africa are expected to benefit from the funds raised through the concert.
The Presidency has launched a new section of its website that is specifically aimed at children, with the aim of promoting interaction between the government and the country's younger citizens.
PetroSA, South Africa's national oil company, has given the University of Johannesburg (UJ) a R9 million cash boost for the establishment of a scholarship programme for black and female postgraduate students.
ArcelorMittal South Africa and the Department of Education (DOE) have announced a R250 million partnership to build ten new schools throughout the country using new steel technology.
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| SA needs a news revolutionAuthor: Lisa Roberts Monday, 08 March 2010 Read more... |
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