DroneDeploy, a startup that makes it possible for just about anyone to fly small drones and analyze the images they capture using a tablet or smartphone, has raised $2 million in seed funding, Chief Executive Mike Winn told Venture Capital Dispatch.

Leading SA scientist meets the elite of Germany’s sustainability researchers Kerry Bobbins, a South African researcher at the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO), is amongst the 25 winners of the international Green Talent Awards who have just begun a tour of hot-spots of sustainable development in Germany.

Former South African rowing team member and Johannesburg resident, Thato Mabelane, will attempt a 30 day row across the Atlantic Ocean with seven other multinational rowers. They are expected to leave on Monday 19 January.

Wits University Press is pleased to announce that the English Academy of South Africa’s 2014 Thomas Pringle Award for Best Short Story / Play has been awarded to Anthony Akerman, the author of Somewhere on the Border published by Wits University Press in 2012.

The Presidency has pleasure to announce the appointment of Ms Lakela Kaunda as Chief Operations Officer, (COO), with effect from 1 November 2014.

Encouraging students to take responsibility for their educational success and career aspirations are core roles of university academics, according to Professor of Accounting at The University of Notre Dame Australia's School of Business and 2015 Order of Australia Medallist, Derek Parkin OAM.

The winner of the 2014 Etisalat Prize for Literature was announced at the Intercontinental Hotel Lagos, Nigeria on Sunday the 15th of March. South African Songeziwe Mahlangu emerged winner – beating Nigerian Chinelo Okparanta, author of ‘Happiness, Like Water‘ and South African Nadia Davids, author of ‘An Imperfect Blessing’.

Journalists and academics are combining their forces to produce magic, said editor Caroline Southey after the introduction of The Conversation Africa news site in South Africa in early May.