Global Dignity: South Africa

11/22/2012

Amazing!: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/19/kelvin-doe-self-taught-en_n_2159735.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

At the age of 13, a boy living in Sierra Leone created batteries and generators using materials he picked up around the house or from trash bins. Now, he's wowing experts in the U.S.

11/22/2012

Moses Masitha writes an important article on how South Africa's poor / disadvantaged township schools can be improved:http://bokamosoafrica.org/2012/11/the-other-day-i-was-reminded-of-plato.html

The other day I was reminded of Plato’s allegory of the cave, an incredible sketch of what could happen when one does not interrogate set beliefs or does not have anything to benchmark oneself against. In the allegory, Socrates’ great apprentice tells of a story of a few men who had been stuck in a ...

10/31/2012

An amazing story to end Global Dignity Month, the story of Thulani Madondo, one of the 10 finalists for the CNN Heroes 2012. He says "I'm helping to educate children so that we can change Kliptown together". VOTE for him here: http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cnn.heroes/2012.heroes/thulani.madondo.html

09/25/2012

Do you have an interest in environmental issues? Apply for the ACCESS Habitable Planet Workshop to be held at the University of the Western Cape in December:http://www.access.ac.za/sites/default/files/Flyer%20%28UWC%202012%29.pdf

08/21/2012

Tough piece on the limits of higher eduction in South Africa to better the lives of young women: http://bokamosoafrica.org/2012/08/remembering-lelona-and-uncovering-the-womens-month-facade-with-the-cold-hard-truth.html

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03/14/2012

The debate on race based admission at the University of Cape Town (UCT) rages on. Any thoughts? : http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-03-14-ucts-admissions-policy-unearths-middle-class-black-angst

Social scientists would be hard-pressed to find a better lens into identity, privilege and race in post-apartheid South Africa than the University of Cape Town’s admissions policy debate. One of the many discussion points it has raised is that of a black middle-class yearning to redefine b...

03/13/2012

Are you based in Johannesburg? The University of Johannesburg hereby invites you to a public lecture by Nomalanga Mkhize on ‘Disposable Youths, Diminishing Work, and the Things We Black People Desire: Exploring the value and purpose of formal education in today’s South Africa’. Do attend if you can:http://www.uj.ac.za/EN/Faculties/edu/newsandevents/Documents/Invitation%20to%20Public%20lecture%20Dr%20N%20Mkhize.pdf

11/01/2011

11/01/2011

Global Dignity Day-20th Oct 2011-SA-KZN-Nkosithandile High

Mayor of Ntambanana Municipality at Nkosithandile High during Global Dignity Day 20th October at Empangeni in South Africa

11/01/2011

Global Dignity Day 2011 (KZN)

learners of Nkosithandile High, Mkhobisi High, Manzimhlophe High, Dumanikahle High, at Obuka Tribal Authority