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  • In stressful times we need strong and responsive families

    Posted on June 25, 2021

    During the past 14 months, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused most families to experience immense stress. Families and communities have been, and continue to be exposed to changes, such as having to work from home, the closing of child care centres and home schooling. Social distancing has caused...

  • International Workers’ Day

    Posted on June 25, 2021

    International Workers’ Day, also known as Labour Day or May Day, is a celebration of the courage shown by the working class when they united in objecting to poor working conditions. This day is celebrated on different days in different countries, but generally falls on the first day of May....

  • Working with families in a pandemic requires more empathy from professionals

    Posted on June 25, 2021

    The COVID-19 pandemic has produced significant stress and anxiety for many families around the world with lower income families more significantly affected during this time. The impact and demands placed on families has been considerable especially for families of children with special needs...

  • Citizen Science: A Response to Ecological Data Needs

    Posted on June 25, 2021

    The impact of human activities on the physical environment are largely responsible for the observed loss of habitats, high levels of extinction, irreversible threats to biodiversity and loss of livelihoods. Ecosystem monitoring programmes, corrective measures and rehabilitation initiatives to...

  • Celebrating World Environment Day with Miss Eco International, Gizzelle Uys

    Posted on June 25, 2021

    World Environment Day, which we celebrate on 5 June this year, is a day that focuses on the environment and ecosystem restoration. This year kicks off the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030). As the environment continues to suffer at the hands of humans, forests, peatlands and...

  • Why does 16 June still matter in our democracy?

    Posted on June 25, 2021

    Remembering Sam Mzima’s iconic photograph of Hector Pieterson, memorialised at the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum in Soweto[1], the Soweto Poet Laureate[2] Ingoapele Madingoane’s poem Africa my beginning, Africa my ending,[3] and Ingrid Jonker’s The child who was shot dead...

  • Youth Forum at Future Africa!

    Posted on June 25, 2021

    On 10 June, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in partnership with the University of Pretoria and its transdisciplinary research institution Future Africa, hosted a youth forum under the theme: ‘Reimagine education tomorrow – Our time. Our turn. Our future’. As...

  • World Refugee Day—humanity in crisis

    Posted on June 25, 2021

    World Refugee Day is hosted annually on 20 June. Under the theme ‘Together we heal, learn and shine’, this year’s event aims to create awareness of the challenges faced by refugees globally.

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