tertiary

The South African government will take steps towards providing free tertiary education to financially strapped students, the ruling African National Congress announced in its annual statement on 8 January 2011.
• Budget big on education, jobs

The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) is the largest single optical telescope in the southern hemisphere, with a hexagonal mirror array 11 metres in diameter giving it the ability to record distant stars, galaxies and quasars a billion times too faint to be seen with the unaided eye.

O.R. Tambo International Airport O.R. Tambo International Airport (ORTIA) is named after Oliver Reginald Tambo, who was known as O.R. by his peers and is...

M'hudi, winner of the 2010 Emerging Tourism Entrepreneur of the Year Award, is South Africa's first wholly black-owned wine tourism farm. Its success is down to the hard work of the Rangaka family, who beat the odds to realise a dream.

The University of Stellenbosch Business School is to offer its popular Management Development Programme in a further three African nations – students in Ghana, Kenya and Zimbabwe will soon be able to attend the course, along with their colleagues in South Africa, Botswana and Namibia.
• SA and US to educate executives

State oil and gas company PetroSA has opened a R1.2-million maths and science academy in Mossel Bay, in a bid to ensure that more local students are able to benefit from the company's tertiary education bursaries.

South African petrochemical giant Sasol is to spend R250-million over the next 10 years helping the country's universities develop world-class science and engineering graduates, attract and retain talented academics, and grow the engineering profession.

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu turns 77 on 7 October 2008. The charismatic cleric received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 and has won the admiration of the world as an outspoken moral voice and human rights campaigner.

It’s all systems go at Cape Town’s new Green Point 2010 Fifa World Cup Football Stadium and the public are being treated to a sneak peek at all the action – on and off the field.

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