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This article is not strictly related to occupational health, but is published as it is of general relevance.

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Sunrise over False Bay Trish Donmall

Careers in the maritime industry can take graduates all over the world. 

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SA Universities need to rethink how they evaluate research: social impact counts too. Current approaches to assessing researchers’ outputs fall short. 

Andiswa Mfengu, University of Cape Town

South Africa is failing its youngest children – report flags critical gaps in early learning, social protection and health care

This week, the Daily Maverick reported on the sentencing of the former  Transport Education and Training Authority (TETA) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Pieter Hendrick Bothma. It has taken 17 years, but the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) finally prevailed. 

Many of the most recent entrants to the skills development world may still have been at school or studying, and the rest of us had probably forgotten about the events leading to this sentence, so a brief explanation is required. 

Our condolences to the family, friends, colleagues, and comrades of Membathisi Mdladlana. A very sad loss of the initiator of the skills development concept and landscape. Known as Shepherd, with years of leadership in teacher associations and the Democratic Teachers Union, as Minister of Labour, he shepherded in the skills development revolution. 

Reading any of the original publications of the then Department of Labour, and the concept of social justice and redress of past exclusion is clearly apparent in the words and graphic illustrations.  


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