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By Karabo Siyoko In July South Africa celebrates former president Nelson Mandela’s birthday. 18 July has been declared Nelson Mandela Day and as South Africans we embrace the…
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SPU Humanities’ student Sisca Julius, who is studying Afrikaans, creative writing, anthropology and heritage studies, was awarded the inaugural K & L prize for her story, Honey…
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By Karabo Siyoko Intern Journalist Working during holidays helps students gain experience outside of the general educational institutions that they are accustomed. Most…
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The SPU Drama Group debuted in 2019 at the National Arts Festival in Makhanda when they performed Lerothodi la sebukwabukwane, by Thabo Moshe. In 2019 they will feature at the 45th…
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The Biennial Conference of the Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists (ASAPA) will be held in Kimberley, South Africa, 3-5 July 2019, hosted by the Sol Plaatje…
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By Mkhokeli Pino The June 16 1976 Youth Uprising, initiated at Isaac Morrison High School, in Soweto Jabavu and led by inter alia Tsietsi Mashinini is credited with having shaped…
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By Mzwandile Mrabe A social commentator, Advocate, pastor, freelance columnist and an aspirant writer This month of May, Africans in Africa and in its diaspora celebrates the…
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The Northern Cape Provincial Treasury has added its voice to the global internal audit family in support of the International Internal Audit Awareness month, which is celebrated…
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By Mkhokeli Pino LLB NWU , African Political Economy Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute “I think we all as South African’s including the media owe this nation an obligation…
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Although majority of the voting stations in the country executed their voting procedures successfully, there were incidents of mishaps at certain voting stations across the…
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On the 1st of May 2019, many woke up in Kimberley knowing that their route leads to the AR Abass stadium for May day. There were ANC marked Quantums all over the town, the…
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The Sol Plaatje Municipality embarked on the process of patching potholes across the city and its surrounding areas. With the current state of roads being poor, the municipality…
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“Universal adult suffrage, a national common voter roll, regular elections and/or multi-party system of democratic government” are founding principles of the 1996 constitution of…
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By Ipeleng Letsoalo Even with the petrol price going up and down every so often, there is still a way that we can use our finances wisely and save. Normally the petrol hike hits…
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By Ipeleng Letsoalo A lot of people get stuck with one important question when it comes to managing their money; should pay I pay my debts or save money first? The first answer…
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What are your goals as VC and Principal of SA’s newest university? Our intentions in these early years of the growing SPU has been to develop and consolidate a good foundation in…
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The 1994 Democratic breakthrough presented an opportunity for the democratic state to intervene for the benefit for the majority of our people in the economy in order to create a…
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Born as the second son, Solomon was raised in Pretoria by his mother Martha Mahlangu, who was a domestic worker. He dropped out of school during Grade 10 due to the riots and…
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By Mkhokeli Pino (LLB) (NWU), International Trade and African Development (TMALI) “Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the…
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Finishing Grade 12? Don’t know what career to follow? You are not alone. Sol Plaatje University lecturer and trained psychologist Caroline Hoorn says that many students do not…
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Sol Plaatje University hosted the award-winning author, Professor Zakes Mda, on Thursday, 28 March 2018 for the launch his new historical fiction titled “The Zulus of New York”.…
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Credit ratings agencies rate a debtor’s ability to pay back debt. In the global bond market, the agencies provide an independent evaluation of debt securities issued by governments…
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