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Grahamstown in the news: Siyavula, the edtech startup enabling learners through feature phones

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Siyavula, the edtech startup enabling learners through feature phones: This realisation came about in the early 2000s when he represented UCT at a science fair in Grahamstown. He was approached by young rural students who inquisitively asked him to transcribe his Maths and Science notes because they knew their teacher wouldn …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

World’s most powerful X-ray scanner to reveal secrets of tiny dinosaur trapped in rock for 200 million years: The fossil was found by South African palaeontologist Billy de Klerk, lying in a stream bed near a small town in the Grahamstown’s region in 2005. Together with John Hepple, a technician in Rhodes Geology Department, he excavated the fossil from the stream …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

Do you live along SA’s tornado belt?: Eleven people were injured and more than 50 houses damaged when a tornado hit Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape in 2008. Certain parts of the Eastern Cape – including the areas of Umzimkhulu‚ Mount Frere and Mount Ayliff – are prone to storms and …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

Bruce Little’s lion sculpture auctioned for R14m: Grahamstown artist Bruce Little’s gargantuan bronze sculpture of an African lion raised more than R14-million at actor and film producer Leonardo DiCaprio’s glitzy gala fundraiser in St Tropez, France at the weekend. Little and his wife, Cate …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

Dinosaur fossil found in South Africa finally gives up its secrets: The dinosaur is believed to have roamed the earth 200 million years ago. Billy de Klerk found the fossil in a stream bed on a farm near Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape. The dinosaur was scanned between July 21 and July 26. “Heterodontosaurus was a small …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

Karoo fossil globe-trots for forensic analysis: The specimen, which was discovered by South African palaeontologist Billy de Klerk in a stream bed on a farm near Grahamstown in 2005, is the most complete fossil of H.tucki ever discovered. The heterodontosaurus was a small, plant-eating animal with …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

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