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  • Hotline Set Up For Matrics To Get IDs

    A string of hotline numbers has been set up to speed up identity book applications for matriculants, Home Affairs director general Mkuseli Apleni said on Thursday.

  • Read the ACE Matric Guide Online Free

    Read the ACE Matric Guide by clicking “Expand” below or clicking the right and left arrows on your keyboard:

  • Tania Douglas – The Case For Female Engineers

    Did you think engineering is just for men? Well think again! Here is an example of a great Engineer in our midst.

  • How Do I Get Into Varsity?

    I remember being in matric… I remember sitting there and thinking to myself: “What am I going to do with my life?” I remember being completely confused with what varsity to go to, or if I even wanted to go to a varsity or if I should just go on a gap year and experience…

  • Environmental Internship Programme

    The City of Cape Town’s Environmental Resource Management (ERM) Department is offering twenty 12-month internships in environmental and heritage management, nature conservation, environmental education, communication, landscape architecture and quality public spaces programmes.

  • 15 things I Wish Someone Had Told Me In First Year

    15 things I Wish Someone Had Told Me In First Year

  • What is Actuarial Science? Studying To Be An Actuary in South Africa

    Attention all high school distinction students! If mathematics and problem solving is your passion and you would love a course that will challenge and motivate you, then a qualification in Actuarial Science is meant for you.

  • Rate the Race-ist

    Lukas (Craig Palm) is a burger jockey at a roadhouse who desperately wants to follow in his white father Solly’s (Jonathan Pienaar) footsteps of being a racecar driver, or as his eight-year-old self called it, a ‘race-ist’. But he doesn’t have a car and his father thinks he’s a nobody. When two crazy backyard chemists…

  • What Are the Performing Arts in South Africa and Should You Study Them?

    The performing arts are those forms of art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist’s own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object. The term “performing…

  • What is Google Street View? A Guide

    Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides panoramic views from various positions along many streets in the world. It was launched on May 25, 2007, originally only in several cities in the United States, and has since gradually expanded to include more cities and rural areas worldwide.

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