By Caradee Y Wright …well, not quite, but in October 2011, when the young academy was launched with its first 20 members, plenty of decisions still had to be made. This despite the fact that the hard work had begun months before in 2010. Professo…
Wednesday 8 September I had woken up reminding myself to chat to Anson for tips on having an MRI, as I was scheduled for one the next day. Anson was the ideal person to reach out to – not only had he experienced his fair share of MRIs over the past yea…
Jennifer Fitchett, University of the Witwatersrand In September each year, South Africa’s Gauteng province turns purple. The cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria are well covered with trees – and jacarandas (Jacaranda mimosifolia), with their purple blo…
Posted from The Conversation Africa Authored by Prof Willie Chinyamurindi, SAYAS Co-Chair 2021 Connecting African universities to high speed internet can help drive the development of digital skills and capabilities. This would also benefit s…
In the pressure of the publish or perish mentality, an insidious culture has emerged where a work-life balance is frowned upon, working a 40+ hour week is celebrated, and supervisors keep any semblance of hobbies, interests, family or a life very, very…
via The Mail and Guardian Prof Mmaki Jantjies, Associate Professor of Information Systems at the University of the Western Cape, has written a piece for the Mail and Guardian urging us to capitalise on the opportunities that the COVID-19 pandemic has p…
via The Mail and Guardian Prof Mmaki Jantjies, Associate Professor of Information Systems at the University of the Western Cape, has written a piece for the Mail and Guardian urging us to capitalise on the opportunities that the COVID-19 pandemic has p…
I’ve been trying to think back to when (and how) I first stumbled upon Lydia Violeta’s channel on YouTube. It was somewhere towards the beginning of lockdown – a chunk of time that no one can quite coherently reconstruct! In the midst of the …
