Addressing the challenges of education
A key to driving poverty reduction in South Africa is education. “We will continue to invest in education and skills development as that is the key to economic growth and development,” says president Jacob Zuma, delivering the State of the Nation Address yesterday....Africa emerges as strong trading partner
Sub-Saharan Africa is increasingly becoming a more important trade partner for South Africa. President Jacob Zuma, delivering the State of the Nation Address yesterday, points out that South African investments in the continent increased from R5,5-billion in 2002 to...UCT breaks into BRICS top 10
The University of Cape Town has made it into the top 10 of the QS University Rankings: BRICS, which compares the top 200 institutions in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Although South African universities are the best in on the African continent, only...Facebook users most at risk
Facebook remains the preferred target for cybercriminals who specialise in stealing social network accounts – according to Kaspersky Lab’s statistics, in Q1 2014 fake sites imitating Facebook accounted for 10,85% of all instances when the heuristic anti-phishing...Xerox scientists share innovation
At least 20 computer vision and imaging scientists from Xerox will join their peers from Google, Facebook, Microsoft Research, Amazon and many of the world’s top academic institutions later this month to share their research on making computers more “human-like”,...