South Africa’s finance minister delivered a good mix of macro and micro-economic strategies to ensure the country survives economic uncertainty, restores confidence and achieves some growth.
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University of the Western Cape
The University of the Western Cape is a national university, alert to its African and international context as it strives to be a place of quality, a place to grow. It is committed to excellence in teaching, learning and research, to nurturing the cultural diversity of South Africa, and to responding in critical and creative ways to the needs of a society in transition.
Drawing on its proud experience in the liberation struggle, the university is aware of a distinctive academic role in helping build an equitable and dynamic society. In particular it aims to: advance and protect the independence of the academic enterprise.
Design curricular and research programmes appropriate to its southern African context.
Further global perspectives among its staff and students, thereby strengthening intellectual life and contributing to South Africa’s reintegration in the world community.
Assist educationally disadvantaged students gain access to higher education and succeed in their studies.
Nurture and use the abilities of all in the university community.
Develop effective structures and conventions of governance, which are democratic, transparent and accountable.
Seek racial and gender equality and contribute to helping the historically marginalised participate fully in the life of the nation.
Encourage and provide opportunities for lifelong learning through programmes and courses.
Help conserve and explore the environmental and cultural resources of the southern African region, and to encourage a wide awareness of these resources in the community.
Co-operate fully with other stakeholders to develop an excellent, and therefore transformed, higher education system.
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Educational technology is not science fiction. Lecturers need to ensure that they adapt to a future which has already arrived.
Technological and digital literacy are crucial for university students who hope to truly contribute to the world in the 21st century.
The ANC will be judged by its ability to deliver on its promises to provide basic services and good governance, practise sound financial management and combat corruption this election year.
Contemporary authors explore current issues through lyrical, sometimes harrowing prose as well as poetry.
Credit rating agencies have come in for a lot of flack. But the bottom line is that to attract investors with deep pockets countries can’t avoid having a credit rating. And a good one at that.
Since time immemorial, huge infrastructure projects have been financed with funds from the capital markets. Africa should not rely on development finance institutions.
The government has put a lot of effort into making health care in South Africa more accessible, but the quality of the service still lags behind.
Enforcing copyright protection in the digital age has become complex. South Africa should tread carefully as it amends its copyright laws.
The Commonwealth is politically fraught, with widely divergent members. But, instead of unravelling as some critics wish, it has instead inspired copycats and appears set to grow and endure.
Vodacom’s battle with its former employee over the “Please Call Me” service brings home global disputes over intellectual property rights. Do South African laws adequately protect innovators?
Complementary and alternative medicine could alleviate many of the access problems within primary health care in South Africa’s rural areas if it was fully integrated into the system.
It is crucial that institutions around Africa do not shy away from robust and critical debate while continental university rankings take shape.
Flexible learning and teaching can help those who want to study while working. It requires structural changes and attitude shifts within universities and companies whose employees want to study.
Cape Town’s screening of the Africa World Documentary Film Festival provides a platform for debate, and shows how documentary films clarify and complicate the answers.
The global recognition of BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – has not only led to their greater global political influence, but also reinforced their regional leadership.
The ash produced by coal mining is particularly harmful to humans. There is a way to reduce that harm and use the ash effectively, though.
Indexes such as the Global Peace Index are used by a wide variety of players to make decisions ranging from investments to providing other support. But do they deserve this level of credibility?
The Freedom Charter, adopted at a meeting in Soweto on June 25-26 1955, triggered a paradigm shift in thinking about the democratic rights of black South Africans and their protection under the law.
Novel research in South Africa has found way to test for HIV drug resistance in a cheap and accessible way.
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Director, Centre for Legal Integration in Africa, University of the Western Cape
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Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape
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Associate research scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Professor, Economics, University of the Western Cape
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Associate Professor of Astronomy, University of the Western Cape
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Lecturer, University of the Western Cape
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Information Systems Senior Lecturer, University of the Western Cape
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PhD candidate with the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape
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Senior Lecturer: Interprofessional Education Unit, University of the Western Cape
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Lecturer, University of the Western Cape
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Postdoctoral Researcher, University of the Western Cape
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Dean of Faculty of Education, University of the Western Cape
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Teaching and Learning Specialist, University of the Western Cape
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Associate professor, University of the Western Cape
