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Oct 23, 2024 | 
businesslive.co.za | Shaun Smillie
The interpretation of a rock painting is causing controversy over the identity of a mystery animal that one academic says depicts a 250-million-year-old tusked herbivore. Associate professor Julien Benoit, of Wits University’s Evolutionary Studies Institute, argues that an animal in a rock painting in the Eastern Free State (the Horned Serpent panel) is of a dicynodont and the inspiration is from fossils the San came across. His findings were published in the journal PLOS One...
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
msn.com | Shaun Smillie
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Shaun Smillie
GROUNDUP The Unconditional Cash Transfer Project gives monthly cash transfers to 100 unemployed graduates, with very encouraging results. Soon after graduating from a Technical Vocational Education and Training college in KwaZulu-Natal, Nqobile Zuma found herself, like millions of other young South Africans, unemployed. Despite receiving her N5 in electrical and motor mechanics, Zuma still struggled to find a job. Then the 29-year-old got an unusual opportunity.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
groundup.org.za | Shaun Smillie
The Unconditional Cash Transfer Project gives monthly cash transfers to 100 unemployed graduates
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
businesslive.co.za | Shaun Smillie
Weeks before the rugby Test match a huge operation was launched to accomplish the almost impossible
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Shaun Smillie
FUNDING APPEAL A survivor from a 1993 pub attack in east London has watched his world get smaller and smaller over the years. And he is still searching for answers. This is his story. Neville Beling died three times on the operating table, and each time the doctors brought him back. There had been other operations, as many as 50, where doctors tried to give Beling a semblance of the life he had before he walked into the Highgate Hotel in East London.
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May 28, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Shaun Smillie
A national election year could be a time for political parties to address the crisis facing children by offering the nation a new path towards ending child poverty. Here's a look at how some party manifestos deal with issues relating to children. In South Africa 25% of all children face a life of poverty, unemployment or low-paying work, simply because they never got enough to eat.
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May 28, 2024 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Shaun Smillie
ROAD TO 2024 ELECTIONS A national election year could be a time for political parties to address the crisis facing children by offering the nation a new path towards ending child poverty. Here’s a look at how some party manifestos deal with issues relating to children. In South Africa 25% of all children face a life of poverty, unemployment or low-paying work, simply because they never got enough to eat.
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May 23, 2024 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Shaun Smillie
ROADS TO ELECTIONS 2024 In 30 years of democracy, South Africa has done much to protect the rights of the LGBTQIA+ community. But as the national election looms, some within the community fear these hard-fought liberties could be in jeopardy. Diego Jacobs died in the arms of a friend because his alleged killer took exception to his sexuality.
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May 22, 2024 | 
phys.org | Shaun Smillie
For centuries the Makuleke community lived in the northeastern corner of South Africa, close to the modern-day border between Zimbabwe and Mozambique. But by the beginning of the 20th century, the squeeze on a disenfranchised community had begun, as they were forced to make way for the private game reserves that were springing up in the Lowveld.
