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Education
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Yikes! #IAmStellenbosch Campaign Backfires Tremendously
25 Sep 2015 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
How do you challenge institutional racism? Create a campaign that uses cultural stereotypes to prove we’re all ‘one’.
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You Want To Study Design But Can’t Afford It? Here’s A Print Design & Publishing Higher Certificate Bursary
14 Sep 2015 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
It’s sad to see someone that might have the skills for something, but they don’t have the bucks to make it happen. I was the same with Formula 1. but that’s another story for another time.
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Autistic Boy Kept In This Classroom Cage
11 Sep 2015 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
To all you teachers out there: this is definitely not how you treat autistic children. Please learn to accept your responsibilities as a teacher of our young minds. Thank you.
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Local Teacher Filmed Beating Student With Belt [Video]
10 Sep 2015 by Kiernan / 1 Comment
The teaching staff at a West Rand secondary school need to take a long, hard look at themselves after a second video showing assault has come to light.
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UCT’s Race Protests Covered By The New York Times In Highly Insightful Article
09 Sep 2015 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
It’s a rare treat to find a unbiased article written on the heavy post-apartheid protests we’re seeing on university campuses in South Africa today.
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CHILLED: They’re Using An Exorcist At This Cape School
08 Sep 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
Being a teacher is a hard enough job without students placing spells on your life. This is all part and parcel of a new game sweeping the schoolyard.
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The People Who Made The Luister Documentary Speak Out
03 Sep 2015 by Kiernan / 1 Comment
As discussions continue across campuses in Stellenbosch (and the country) the film-makers behind the Luister documentary are now speaking out.
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SECOND VIDEO ADDED: Terrifying Footage Shows EFF Whipping Stellenbosch Students With Sjamboks
01 Sep 2015 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This video from yesterday shows all hell breaking loose at Elsenburg campus, students clashing violently and sjamboks being wielded as weapons.
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Stellenbosch Student Suspended For ‘Kaffir-Moffie’ Remarks
01 Sep 2015 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
As Stellies falls into the racism spotlight, South Africa will be watching its every move over the subject – and here’s just the first example.
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Win A Shark Cage Diving Experience For Two To Celebrate Shark Month
01 Sep 2015 by Sloane Hunter / 25 Comments
Shark Week aired on Discovery last week in an attempt to educate the masses about shark’s importance, anatomy and how they live.
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They’re Removing Statues From American Universities Now
31 Aug 2015 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
Slowly, but surely the young are beginning to change the way the past is remembered and removing reminders that have no place anymore.
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SA Rates In The Top 20 Countries To Raise Your Kids
28 Aug 2015 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
Raising your kids in South Africa might not be so bad – just know how to play the game.
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Stellenbosch University Is Reeling Over This Video
24 Aug 2015 by Sloane Hunter / 3 Comments
After a mini documentary on the culture aspects of Stellies was released via social media, Stellenbosch University stated in a reply that it’s not all true.
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This Will Be Interesting – ‘Smart Drug’ For Students Is Safe And Improves Results
20 Aug 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
If you’re thinking of Bradley Cooper from Limitless you’re not that far off the truth, a new study on the effects of modafinil showing the positive effects it can have on students.
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“I’ll Fucking Hunt You, Boy” – Primary School Mother To Cops [Video]
19 Aug 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
If you thought your mom was angry when you tried to sneak in late on a school night think again. This woman has come choice words for the police at her child’s school.
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Chinese Takeover – SA Schools To Teach Mandarin From Next Year
13 Aug 2015 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
China’s hush-hush but overtly obvious plans to take over Africa are slowly coming into effect as our schools will soon be teaching some good ol’ Chinese.
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Parents Threaten To Remove Kids If Curro Deal Goes Ahead
31 Jul 2015 by Kiernan / 2 Comments
If the name Curro Holdings doesn’t ring a bell just think back to that video of school kids in Pretoria being separated along racial lines. Yeah, that would be these guys.
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Reddam Private School Sex Abuse Shock
24 Jul 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
A music teacher at one of the Cape’s most prestigious schools stands accused of sexually assaulting at least six of his students.
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Elon Musk Was Beaten So Badly His Dad Didn’t Recognise Him At Sandton Clinic
22 Jul 2015 by Kiernan / 1 Comment
After details of the schoolboy bullying suffered by Elon Musk went public yesterday his father has added his voice to the subject. Looks like Elon had it pretty rough back then.
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This Is Why Elon Musk Gave Pretoria High School R1 Million And Asked Them To Never Contact Him Again
21 Jul 2015 by Kiernan / 1 Comment
We know that the world is full of disgruntled South Africans bitching and moaning about the state of our country, but would you have put Elon Musk in that bracket?
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Here’s 5 Things You Really Need To Know About Drinking Champagne
16 Jul 2015 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Once you grow up and stop drinking in public parks there is a certain decorum one is expected to display when sipping back on the bubbly. We’re offering you these friendly words of advice.
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Pic Of Homeless Kid Using McDonald’s Light To Do Homework Goes Viral
09 Jul 2015 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you’re known to procrastinate your way through life, this nine-year-old filipino boy’s self-determination might just inspire you, as it did thousands of others.
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Racists’ Dream – At Curro School They Have A Black Bus And A White Bus [Video]
18 Jun 2015 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There are still some massive problems South Africa has to face, and many of them seem to be stemming from the same sorts of places. Here’s another incident about racism in schools.
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So The ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ Guy Apparently Believes All Whites Should Be Killed
08 Jun 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
UCT have finally broken their silence on why Chumani Maxwele, the face of the ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ campaign, was suspended last month. Their account doesn’t paint a pretty picture.
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Struggling To Pay Your Student Loan? Have You Considered Working At Mavericks?
08 Jun 2015 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Oh, the price of a good education these days. Unless you’re a genius and are on a scholarship, you can end up paying through your teeth. So what are your options?
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The App That Will Help Beat Cancer
05 Jun 2015 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Cancer Dojo is a space that brings the power of visual thought to life. It provides a platform where people can grow, learn and share skills and tools as active participants in their bout with cancer.
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Wow – Now They Want To Strip Caitlyn Jenner Of Her Olympic Gold Medal
04 Jun 2015 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s a painful thought that some people have nothing better to do with their time and that they have to focus on, truly, the most ridiculously small things that shouldn’t even be an issue.
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Oh Dear – This Is How Fox News Reacted To The Caitlyn Jenner Story [Video]
02 Jun 2015 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
There’s this little thing called “tact” – some people have it, many people don’t. Unfortunately there is no in-between. Watch these two news anchors really balls up a good moment.
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Floating Food! Insane Pics From Scott Kelly’s Stay Aboard The International Space Station
01 Jun 2015 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
All those people that do those “a photo a day for a year” projects – this guy is beating you all because he is doing it from the International Space Station and you’re doing it from your bathroom.
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Verwoerd’s Grandson Is Not A Big Fan
28 May 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
My enduring memory of my grandfather is of a wonderfully cantankerous old man pulling up his knee-high socks and muttering obscenities. My grandfather wasn’t the architect of apartheid however.
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