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Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology Blade Nzimande.

Blade Nzimande: Science, Technology and Innovation

SCORE: C Nzimande’s first full year leading the ministry of science, technology and innovation has been defined by institutional housekeeping and strategic repositioning rather than headline-grabbing breakthroughs. The renaming of the department of science, technology and innovation, restoring “technology” to the title, signalled his commitment to sharpening the department’s focus and aligning it with global […]

As part of Minister Nzimande’s extensive official visit to the Republic of Tunisia, earlier, the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI) signed a partnership to scale up science, technology and innovation cooperation with Tunisia.

Tunisia: A democratic dream destroyed

Fourteen years ago, Tunisia was the very emblem of hope

Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Blade Nzimande, speaking at the 4th International Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA 2025), hailed a new pan-African plan to boost regional manufacturing of vaccines and other drugs as a “truly historic development”.
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‘Turn crisis into opportunity,’ say African health leaders

Calls mount for African solutions to respond to the vaccine cuts and the need for a broad system-wide approach to vaccine production in Africa, and for innovative financing for sustainable health systems

Going it alone: The ANC is not happy with the decision by the SACP to contest elections independently of its alliance partner. Photo: File

SACP set on ‘divorcing’ the ANC

The communist party has rejected overtures from its alliance partner and will contest the 2026 local government elections independently

Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Blade Nzimande. (Photo by Frennie Shivambu/Gallo Images via Getty Images).

Blade Nzimande

SCORE: E Blade Nzimande faces allegations of bribery for the procurement of tenders at the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS). Although the minister has refuted the claims, his ethics have been questioned. The department received a clean audit but salary adjustments in the first quarter of 2024 caused variances. It planned to spend R1.711  billion […]

Cake and eating it: The SACP going to the polls doesn’t seem to bother
Minister Blade Nzimande. Photo: Frennie Shivambu/Getty Images

The December curse of SA’s political class: Congress time arrives again

If the original uMkhonto weSizwe had been launched on 16 July and not 16  December, we would all be on holiday

Cash strapped: SACP national treasurer Joyce Moloi-Moropa said at the party’s congress in Boksburg it was struggling for funds. Photo: Luba Lesolle/Gallo Images

SACP Members to fund party’s election campaign for 2026

The party is also set to discuss whether to ‘donate’ its votes to the ANC after the poll

South African Communist Party general secretary Solly Mapaila

SACP to endorse decision to campaign alone for 2026 local government elections

The party will hold a special policy conference to decide on how to reconfigure its longstanding alliance with the ANC

Educor, the largest private education provider in Southern Africa, owns the Damelin, CityVarsity, Icesa City Campus and Lyceum colleges.

Staff and students at beleaguered Educor institutions still ‘in the dark’

As the months roll on since the company’s institutions were provisionally reregistered, salaries remain unpaid and learning has ground to a halt

Power control: The constitution of the uMkhonto weSizwe party ensures Jacob Zuma is the almighty ruler. Photo: Luba Lesolle/Getty Images

EFF headquarters a halfway stop on the road to Nxamalala

The SACP appears ready to embrace undemocratic centralism in its search for a new alliance partner

SACP leader Solly Mapaila. (Photo by Dirk Kotze/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Korner Talk | Solly Mapaila still riding his high horse

The South African Communist Party leader continues his tirade against alliance partner ANC for bringing the Democratic Alliance into the unity government

New rhythm: Most politicians, including John Steenhuisen, got the message about unity. Photo: Dwayne Senior/Getty Images

Solly stays home as John does the Beijing Boogie

John Steenhuisen’s appointment of Roman Cabanac is a bro too far.

Beemers: President Cyril Ramaphosa and ANC members arrive for the lekgotla at the Birchwood. Photo: Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images

Blue light blues in the Birchwood parking lot as the ANC wraps up its lekgotla lite

John and Gayton are driving the comrades’ cars, eating their lunch and hogging their headlines

Students from universities and colleges in and around Washington rally to demonstrate their support of the Palestinian people on the campus of George Washington University on May 02, 2024 in Washington, DC. Pro-Palestinian encampments have sprung up at college campuses around the country with some protestors calling for schools to divest from Israeli interests amid the ongoing war in Gaza.  (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Editorial | Elections and the perils of provoking students

US President Joe Biden’s handling of Israel’s war on Gaza could lose him the all-important student vote

Drivers in the cabin of a hydrogen-powered truck during a moving demonstration, part of Anglo American Plc’s NuGen carbon-neutral project, at the Anglo American Platinum Ltd. Mogalakwena platinum mine in Mogalakwena, South Africa, on Friday, May 6, 2022. Anglo American unveiled the worlds biggest green-hydrogen powered truck at a platinum mine in northeast South Africa where it aims to replace a fleet of 40 diesel-fueled vehicles that each use about a million liters of the fossil fuel every year. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images

South Africa faces skills gap in hydrogen economy, report finds

The Labour Market Intelligence report has found that occupational workers lack hydrogen-specific skills to compete in the global economy

The minister said detractors have celebrated the reputational damage to the student funding scheme, his department and the government

‘I will not resign,’ says Nzimande on NSFAS board dissolution

The minister said detractors have celebrated the reputational damage to the student funding scheme, his department and the government.

Dr Blade Nzimande, Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation. File photo

Nzimande dissolves NSFAS board with immediate effect

The troubled student financial aid scheme will be placed under administration

Damelin is one of four colleges that has been deregistered by the department of education.

College closures and the pitfalls of privatisation

As austerity batters public universities, fly by night institutions leave students in the lurch

Educor qualifications are valid, says department

The department of higher education has assured students that they will not be left stranded following the decision to deregister four private colleges

Damelin is one of four colleges that has been deregistered by the department of education.

College closures indefensible

The department of higher education on Friday announced that it would deregister Damelin, CityVarsity, Intec and Lyceum College