Although some parents may be reluctant to let their children explore their surroundings alone, allowing kids to wander can help build their sense of direction.
South Africa’s child support grant helps fight poverty among children up to the age of 18.
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The child support grant, as a policy instrument, cannot work alone in ensuring that young people thrive and succeed.
Encouraging children to make and use a range of maps helps develop their spatial skills, great if they want to read an x-ray, design a building or put up flat-pack furniture later in life.
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It’s never too early for children to develop their spatial skills, vital if they want to one day design buildings, put up flat-pack furniture or cut a birthday cake. Here’s how you can help at home.
‘Radical economic transformation’ in South Africa needs to move beyond rhetoric.
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South Africa’s governing ANC has always seen economic growth as the driving force for change. This was wishful thinking as the damage done by apartheid will take far more to undo.
German artist Edgar Mueller poses with his 3D pavement painting in West London.
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A stroll down the personal growth aisle of the bookstore tells us, among other things, Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps. The answer, as authors Alan and Barbara Pease delightedly inform their…