Category: News

Better Positioning Youth to Gain Employment at SMMEs

Young people encounter challenges such as the lack of workplace skills when obtaining or securing employment from these enterprises.

Lack of Diabetes Education Results to Undiagnosed Patients, Complications

The complications include amputation, kidney failure, stroke, and blindness, says Dr Piotie of the UP Diabetes Research Centre.

Social Capital Impacts Youth’s Exposure, Access to Economic Opportunities

“Social connections create a multi-layered safety-net that not only supports young people but helps them rise,” reads a Youth Capital consultation report.

ConCourt Confirms Invalidity of Criminalising Children for Cannabis Use and/or Possession

In other words, “prevention, harm-reducing and dependence treatment services and other alternatives” should replace “punitive or repressive drug control policies”.

Momentous Week for UJ, Wits Vice Chancellors

Professor Marwala will occupy the role of Rector of the United Nations University while Professor Zeblon Vilakazi was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society.