Activities marking the country's 49th independence anniversary began last week with a Jumat service on Friday and a Christian interdenominational service last Sunday, among other events lined up f...

In his first day in office, South Africa's new President Jacob Zuma announced the creation of a Ministry of Higher Education and Training with a Communist leader, Dr Blade Nzimande, as Minister. U...

University Park, Pa. -- Increased schooling across sub-Saharan Africa may be lowering new HIV infections among younger adults, according to sociologists, suggesting a shift in a decades-long trend whe...

Pioneering partnerships between communities in Wales and Africa are winning United Nations awards and blazing a trail for the rest of the world to follow. David Williamson explores the friendships and...

The MEC for Education in KwaZulu-Natal, Ina Cronje, has appealed to political parties in the province to keep the lower pass rate - 57 727 pupils or 42 percent failed - out of the elections....

Providing education is an essential condition for consolidating and deepening our democracy, and a cornerstone of our programme, the Freedom Charter. ...

Parents need to be educated on the good influences of heavy metal music and how to deal with teenagers listening to the odd "bad" songs, an artist said on Thursday....

Johannesburg - Phoenix Software has been granted the exclusive republishing rights for Britannica Software in South Africa. Britannica Software is the world leader of reference, education and learning...

FOR most Eastern Cape school children, education is not worth the paper it's written on. I'm not talking about the National Senior Certificate, as matric will be known from 2008. ...

Many impositions on young people masquerade as concern for their welfare but have tragic consequences. In 2005, a matriculation student from Manxele High School in Eshowe hanged himself after receivin...