Thanks to marketing departments, motivational speakers, life coaches and team builders, many of us have picked up an annoying habit of reflex positivity. Problems are 'challenges.' Obstacles are 'gifts'. We reflect on the good things which never would have happened without this disaster, etc, etc, etc. Of course, we have to. What else are we going to do, in the end, but get on with it? Still, a few moments of sympathy and commiseration are warranted. Let me just say, then, that 2020 has been rough. In fact, there is a great Afrikaans term, synonymous with human waste, three letters, sharp and palindromic. Got it? That's been 2020 for most people.
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Archive for month: October, 2020
A new Furniture Design Qualification was announced by Gugu Motlanthe during the 2nd Annual Furniture Sector Forum that recently took place online. The qualification was registered with the South African Quality Assurance Framework (SAQA) in May this year.
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As companies return to work, the threat of Covid-19 has not lessened and OH&S precautions are still essential to avoid resurgence of infections.
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During the competition's very first virtual awards ceremony, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) Investment Challenge announced the 2020 winners on the exchange's Facebook and YouTube channels. Due to its virtual nature, the ceremony was attended by hundreds across the country including all the participants, their families and friends, teachers, lecturers, mentors and teacher catalysts.
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The University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB) is the only business school in Africa to feature in the prestigious Financial Times Rankings for its ground-breaking Executive MBA programme.
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Congratulations to the SME companies who have won full-page BizListing entries in Bizcommunity's business directory.
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We are living in times in which we are required to support our learners to acquire new ways of learning and the competencies needed for them to enter and be successful in their studies and careers in engineering. These are challenging times in which we need to empower learners for the "new normal" to study and work in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
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AAA gives high school students a taste of tertiary student life
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Recent lockdown conditions threw the gauntlet down at South Africa's education system: adapt to the online world quickly to keep up with the syllabus during unforeseen circumstances, or face stalling learning completely, compromising the future of South Africa's youth.
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The Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship aims to support a cohort of new leaders across the African continent with its scholarship programme, commencing in 2021.
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