Posted on 7 April, 2008 by Johann van Wyk
Presenting the latest country report in Cape Town last week, SA Institute for Race Relations (SAIRR) chief executive John Kane-Berman claimed that up to 80 % of the country’s public schools are dysfunctional despite a decade of incremental increases in public spending on the education system. The education system is also failing to produce the [...]
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Posted on 7 April, 2008 by Johann van Wyk
SANREN goes live! SANREN’s new 10 gigabytes-per-second service went live in Johannesburg on 31 March, connecting the main University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) campus and three University of Johannesburg campuses to an optical fibre ring that starts and ends at a location called the Reefhead Gateway. SANREN, the South African National Research Network system will expand university bandwidth 35-fold [...]
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