South Africa: Big Corporations to Uplift SMMEs
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EThekwini Municipality has, on Thursday (16/05/2013), launched the Enterprise Development Strategy at the Marine Parade Hotel, to develop Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) in the eThekwini Region. This coincided with the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding where about 15 big businesses committed themselves to uplifting small businesses and to enhance their businesses skills.
This initiative is the first of its kind to be undertaken by any South African Municipality and is se ...
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South Africa: Clean up Programme Gains Momentum
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The eThekwini Municipality’s Clean My City Programme has drawn the attention of street traders in central Durban as they have committed themselves to ensuring that the areas they trade in are well maintained and cleaned.
The clean-up campaign was launched by Mayor James Nxumalo yesterday and is part of the Municipality’s response to service delivery and social challenges identified in certain parts of the City.
This morning, 03/05/13, City Manager, Sibusiso Sithole led a team of senior mana ...
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South Africa: Government and Big Business Unite to Improve Service Delivery
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Government and big business are joining hands to improve service delivery, with a major announcement of capacity-building partnerships between business and municipalities expected to be made in August.
This was announced by Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) Minister Richard Baloyi in his Budget Vote on Tuesday.
The Department of Cooperative Governance has been allocated a total budget of R56.12 billion for the 2013/14 fiscal year, while R105 million will go to the Depa ...
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South Africa: Two New Universities to Open Next Year
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Cape Town - Two new universities earmarked for Mpumalanga and the Northern Cape will open their doors next year, Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande said on Wednesday.
“Much preparatory work has been done and I now expect to establish the two institutions as legal entities in the next month. R2.1 billion has been earmarked for the development of the universities over the next three years,” Nzimande said in his budget vote speech in the National Assembly.
The two new universities, combin ...
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ICT for Education Solutions - in Africa, By Africans, for the Global Economy
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Africa is experiencing a technological surge and it is having a dramatic effect on education throughout the Continent. Tech hubs are blossoming, new mobile devices and apps are being designed and produced in Africa, by Africans, and Africa's eLearning market is now the fastest-growing in the world.
With self-paced eLearning revenues forecast to double to US$512.7m by 2016, it is clear that sales to Africa are experiencing a sharp upturn.
However, Africa is not just an end user of new products: ...
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Kenya: AVU Wins a Third International Award
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The African Virtual University has won a global Award for the Outstanding Course/Text and Illustrations – Atomic Physics. According to Open CourseWare Consortium (OCWC), a global grass root open education movement, the Award recognized the AVU course - Atomic Physics – for “exemplary quality in its presentation of educational content (in breadth, depth, creativity)”.
The Awards for OpenCourseWare Excellence provide annual recognition to outstanding individuals, courses and Open course sites in ...
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Ghana: Bank of Africa to Open Fifteen More Branches
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The Bank of Africa-Ghana on Monday said it is ready to roll out 15 branches in the next three years in line with its vision to meet customer need in every region of the country.
Mr Kobby Andah, Managing Director of the Bank, said the move aims at providing convenience to its customers.
He said Bank of Africa was also exploring alternative service delivery channels to ensure that customers were able to transact their businesses undisturbed.
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South Africa: BP’s R5bn Investment a Sign of Confidence in SA – Motlanthe
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Petroleum giant BP’s announcement this week that it would invest over R5 billion in southern Africa – with most of it in South Africa – is a “statement of confidence” in the country, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Thursday.
“It reconfirms the commitment of a major investor in our country and we are also happy that in the course of normal business they are making a contribution towards our skills development programme, in education, so they are an important corporate citizen of South ...
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South Africa: Plan to Centralise Varsity Applications
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This year’s Grade 10 pupils could find themselves the first class to take part in the government’s new centralised admission system for all of the country’s universities.
The advantages of a centralised admission system are:
- The payment of a single application fee, rather than a fee to each university approached;
- Immediate information about which universities still have places; and
- More efficient processing of late applications.
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South Africa: President Zuma to Lead SA Delegation to AU Summit
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President Jacob Zuma will lead a South African delegation to the 21st Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly.
The summit, scheduled to take place on Sunday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, coincides with the historic 50th anniversary Celebrations of the Organisation of African Unity/ African Union.
The theme of the summit is “Pan-Africanism and the African Renaissance”.
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