Young people who want to further their studies in 2024 can still apply for financial assistance. The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) board has extended the deadline for applications for student financial aid to 15 February 2023. The decision was taken during a meeting between the NSFAS board and the South African Union of...
Day: <span>7 February 2024</span>
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Snapchat’s parent reduces headcount and retrench 10% of workforce
Snap is laying off 10% of its workforce worldwide – which equals about 500 employees, to “promote in-person collaboration.” The last time Snap made significant job cuts was in August 2022, when it laid off 20% of its staff. “In order to best position our business to execute on our highest priorities, and to ensure we...
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OPINION | Ordinary Jobs, Extraordinary Heroes – Tribute to Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once shared a beautiful thought: “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say,...
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Please call me inventor wants R20 billion from Vodacom
Kenneth Nkosana Makate, who proposed a Please Call Me idea to Vodacom, wants R20 billion from the mobile operator. The amount sounds preposterous, but it aligns with High Court and Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) rulings that backed Makate’s claim. Makate, a Vodacom finance manager at the time, pitched his idea of a method to...