Edwin Naidu

Freelance Journalist, Sunday Independent

Funding for vital research increased

Edwin Naidu|Published

The gross domestic expenditure on research and development (Gerd) in South Africa has gone up in real terms for the first time in four years, driven strongly by ...

Embattled UCT head refuses exit package

Edwin Naidu|Published

Council offers to drop charges with ‘sweetheart’ deal.

Class of 2022: increase in demand for places, financial aid

Edwin Naidu|Published

The individual results of the Class of 2022 – the largest cohort of matric pupils to date in South Africa – will be released at examination centres on Friday, January ...

Fort Hare VC wants action to halt corruption

Edwin Naidu|Published

He remains determined to stay at the institution, but is deeply frustrated about the lack of action from various authorities, despite evidence relating to alleged ...

Africans must stand up for Afghan women barred from getting an education

Edwin Naidu|Published

African nations are signatories to the United Nation’s Sustainable Developmental Goals, a collection of 17 interlinked goals aimed at being a “shared blueprint for ...

As the US prepares to woo Africa, the continent must determine its future

Edwin Naidu|Published

Many academics and foreign affairs experts insist that Africa must preside over its future than be instructed on how to conduct its affairs on the world stage. Many ...

UCT’s VC Phakeng cleared on bullying allegations

Edwin Naidu|Published

Far from being a bully, embattled University of Cape Town vice-chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng was wrongly accused by the “overly sensitive” husband of an ...

UCT hits back at ‘spurious claims’

Edwin Naidu|Published

Vice-chancellor professor Mamokgethi Phakeng and council chair Babalwa Ngonyama have come under siege in the media following manufactured claims that they had misled ...

Outgoing UJ vice-chancellor dreams big about Africa

Edwin Naidu|Published

UN will be driven by a determination to mobilise people on the African continent “because Africa suffers more than any other continent”. While the role of the rector ...

Queen Elizabeth II: Long live the children and women of Africa

Edwin Naidu|Published

In some countries, they are flying the flag at half-mast and declaring a mourning period, while in Nigeria, one person has proposed renaming a university after the ...

Africa-conquering leaders must inspire students to change their mindset

Edwin Naidu|Published

The inspiring story of the township pupil conquering Africa looks set to crown a major education week which began on Thursday when the Minister of Higher Education, ...

4IR dream for Africa will collapse unless teachers are appreciated and better paid

Edwin Naidu|Published

The world has changed, but the system has not kept pace nor ensured that teachers are part of the solution.

Pandor, Blinken hit it off during recent visit, but SA set to retain close ties with China

Edwin Naidu|Published

Blinken was full of praise for Pandor, and reflected on renewing the partnership and several liaisons between their two countries before the break brought on by ...

Top women in motoring in South Africa

Edwin Naidu|Published

The top jobs may still elude women as men still call the shots in South Africa’s automotive industry. But slowly things are changing, following the announcement ...

No more bricks and mortar, cut data costs for quality online learning, says Minister Nzimande

Edwin Naidu|Published

Former SACP leader and Minister of Higher Education and Training, Science and Innovation, Blade Nzimande, is certainly bucking the trend in Africa by focusing on ...

Address pressing challenges and ditch cosmetic changes

Edwin Naidu|Published

There was no love lost between Nzimande and students after he once blurted “Students Must Fall”.

African professionals working abroad – brain drain or gain for the continent?

Edwin Naidu|Published

Seeking greener pastures outside continent

Joburg hotel group cashes in on SADC tourism boom

Edwin Naidu|Published

Mthethwa said the Minor Group, which has more than 550 hotels in 55 countries across Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, the Indian Ocean, Europe and the Americas, ...

Blinken’s visit to restore relations with sub-Saharan Africa

Edwin Naidu|Published

Relationships under president Trump were soured after the controversial former US leader cut commitments much to South Africa’s chagrin made by his predecessor president ...

Youth in SA already flexed their Arab Spring muscle through #Feesmustfall

Edwin Naidu|Published

Twelve years ago, the protests – dubbed the Arab Spring – rapidly spread in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya as young people frustrated by dictatorships looking after themselves ...

Mandela Day event themed around food and nutrition programmes for children

Edwin Naidu|Published

The look on the eyes of children and their teachers celebrating, learning and playing was priceless. It left one wondering why not make every day Mandela Day to ...

`Befitting, appropriate’ -Ramaphosa on sentencing of Pule’s killer

Edwin Naidu|Published

On Friday, the Gauteng High Court sentenced Ntuthuko Shoba to life imprisonment for conspiring with a hitman in 2020 to kill his 28-year-old girlfriend, who was ...

Male-dominated institutions pay lip service to gender reforms

Edwin Naidu|Published

Only six out of the 26 higher education institutions in South Africa—home of some of Africa’s top universities—are led by women

School segregation in post-apartheid South Africa remains high along racial and socio-economic lines

Edwin Naidu|Published

South Africa is committed to investment in science and technology and has a formidable strategy to impact the greater good. However, increasingly, one senses that ...

We have the knowledge of where and how our children learn – Motshekga

Edwin Naidu|Published

Census sheds light on developments in early childhood education in South Africa.