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Matric, STEM, and South Africa’s education crisis: Andrew Kenny - Biznews

In one newspaper, I read that our universities in 2025 are overwhelmed with applications for student places: the University of Johannesburg has 33 applicants ...

Addressing LGBT community’s challenges key to cherishing SA’s progressive Constitution - IRR

Nearly 20 years after the legalisation of same-sex marriage, South Africa’s progressive constitutional framework still chiefly benefits members of the Lesbian, ...

How race poisons debate - Politicsweb

There may be reasonable disagreement about the best strategies for dealing with pathological behaviour, but it would be surprising indeed if there were any ...

The costly consequences of intellectual overreach - Biznews

If mere mortals are to navigate the ebbs and flows of the world, intellectuals, especially public intellectuals, can play an indispensable role. In an open and ...

Hope for the youth: turning SA education around

Introducing a school voucher system is the radical change South Africa desperately needs to give new hope to the millions of young people who continue to bear ...

IRR Legal proposes BELA solution

IRR Legal has written to the Presidency and to Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube to propose a solution to the impasse over clauses four and five of the Basic ...

No fix for the schooling crisis under the BELA Bill – IRR

‘The Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Bill of 2022, now before the National Council of Provinces for adoption, cannot fix the current schooling crisis and ...

PHSG: Exploiting teenage girls for politics - Politicsweb

In true Stalinist fashion (“show me the man and I’ll show you the crime”), the Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) recently set its sights on seeking out ...

Nando’s/Cliff outcry: Don’t chicken out of race debate

25 October 2021 - The evidence is overwhelming that South Africans do not, in the main, believe racism is currently a particularly serious crisis, or that ...

20 March 2022 - Writing last week on PoliticsWeb, the historian Hermann Giliomee disputed claims that there were major similarities between the cadre ...