# The Pan South African Language Board has condemned accent-based profiling amid ongoing immigration tensions. Speaking to the SABC, PanSALB CEO Keaobaka Seshoka said language is not a valid indicator of nationality and warned against judging people’s citizenship by their accent. She said accents must never be criminalised, as many African languages cross borders, and […]
# Public Protector Kholeka Gcaleka has found that Gauteng municipalities failed to enforce food safety laws in the informal sector. More than 16-thousand-240 food vendors are reportedly non-compliant with regulations, while the province has only 30-percent of the required environmental health inspectors. Gcaleka said these failures may have compromised consumer safety. She also cited non-compliant […]
# Die roete tussen die Kaapstadse Internasionale Lughawe en OR Tambo in Gauteng was verlede jaar Afrika se besigste lughaweverbinding. Volgens die Internasionale Lugvervoervereniging se Wêreldlugvervoerstatistiek-verslag het ongeveer 3,4-miljoen passasiers tussen die twee bestemmings gereis. Die verslag sê die roete het alle ander lugroetes op die vasteland oortref. Asië is wêreldwyd die besigste lugroete, terwyl […]
# MANCOSA Academic sê die daling in Suid-Afrika se prestasie in Wetenskap-, Tegnologie-, Ingenieurswese- en Wiskunde-opvoeding is ‘n knaende kwessie. Wêreldstandaardmetings beoordeel die land as swak en benadruk stelseluitdagings vereis dringende aandag. Woordvoerder Andi Venter sê dit bedreig die land se vermoë om in ‘n kennisgedrewe ekonomie mee te ding. Sy sê talle leerders gaan […]
# Die Media-ontwikkeling‑ en Verskeidenheids-agentskap het kwalifiserende gemeenskapsmedia-organisasies gevra om aansoek te doen vir finansiële steun deur sy jaarlikse oproep vir toelaebefondsingsaansoeke. Die program vorm deel van die agentskap se voortgesette pogings om Suid-Afrika se medialandskap te vernuwe en die gemeenskaps-mediasektor te versterk. Die agentskap sê die befondsing het ten doel om ‘n uiteenlopende, inklusiewe […]
# Die adjunkminister van Basiese Onderwys, Reginah Mhaule, sê kodering en robotika sal binne die volgende twee tot drie jaar in alle Suid-Afrikaanse laerskole bekendgestel word. Sy het op die bekendstelling van ‘n kunsmatige intelligensie-, koderings- en robotikasentrum ter waarde van 1,9-miljoen-rand in Gqeberha gesê die regering werk saam met die privaat sektor om tegnologie-opleiding […]
# Basic Education deputy minister Reginah Mhaule says coding and robotics will be introduced in all South African primary schools within the next two to three years. Speaking at the launch of a R1.9 million AI, coding and robotics centre at Khulile Primary School in Motherwell, Gqeberha, Mhaule said government is partnering with the private […]
# South African renewable resources company, Sappi, has joined the Roadmap to Zero programme created by the Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals Foundation aimed at eliminating harmful chemicals from the global fashion supply chain. Through its Sappi Verve brand, the company supplies dissolving wood pulp used to produce sustainable textile fibres. Sappi says the partnership […]
# Die minister van Samewerkende Regering en Tradisionele Sake, Velenkosini Hlabisa, sê die regering bly verbind tot samewerking met tradisionele leiers, gesinne, gemeenskappe en alle belanghebbendes om alle sterftes en beserings by inlywing-skole te verhoed en onwettige skole uit te roei. Hy sê 43 ingewydes het tydens die winter-seisoen gesterf en 12 ontvoerings is aangemeld. […]
