Calling all tech geeks! Robots from around the country will be battling it out over a number of challenges requiring the cunning and skilful manipulation of mechanics and dice to push their robots to the limit.
Author: Kayla Roux
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First there were the Baby Boomers, then Generation X and Y – and now the Millenials take centre stage. According to education and innovation analyst Stuart Ntlathi, these are the people who are going to change our world.
Creating with cardboard has never been cooler! Come watch as young and old battle it out with sticky-tape and scissors to become the first South African Global Cardboard Challenge winner.
There are no PowerPoint presentations, no assistants and minimal props allowed, so what’s left? Your voice! FameLab, which has been dubbed “Pop Idols for Scientists”, is an international competition providing young scientists with the opportunity for their voices to be heard.
Grahamstown has the privilege of hosting Scifest Africa, an annual event that brings scholars, scientists and visitors from all over the country to our neck of the woods. And many Grahamstonians don’t know anything about it.
Black smoke billowed out the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in Rome at 11:39 this morning (13 March), indicating that a new pope had not yet been elected. The conclave, consisting of 115 cardinals, entered the Sistine Chapel on Tuesday afternoon to begin the voting process, but after the first two rounds of voting, none of the cardinals had received the two-thirds majority vote needed to be elected as the new leader of the Catholic Church.
A 21-year-old man was arrested on Sunday and faces a charge of murder after he allegedly stabbed a woman in the neck in the early hours of Sunday morning in Extension 8.
Incidents of metal thefts are on the rise in Grahamstown, say the SAPS. The most recent incidences are reported to have occurred in Hill Street and Trollip Street between Thursday and Friday last week.
The police are investigating a case of culpable homicide after a man died in an accident on Raglan Road on Friday night.
A 23-year-old man appeared in the Grahamstown Magistrate's court yesterday on charges of possession of dagga.