south africa

To Learn Early or Not

To Learn Early or Not

Today on Rocketboom we look at the advantages of early education in daycares in South Africa. Humanwire correspondent, Ruud Elmendorp reports from Durban. Click here for show credits. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for more Rocketboom! Follow us on Twitter for the latest updates! Join us on Facebook for behind the scenes pics and videos!

Solar Cooking

Solar Cooking

Cook your delicious foods using sun light, and you don’t pay electricity, parafine, or firewood, and making it all a lot cheaper. That’s the promise of the solar cookers implemented by a South African company called Sunfire. They have been doing that for the last five years, and Sunfire is starting an NGO to distribute(…)

Flying with Vultures

Flying with Vultures

By African Renaissance Productions.  Only 2,900 breeding pairs of Cape Vultures remain world wide.  Kerri Wolter founded the Vulture Conservation Program in Magaliesberg, South Africa.  Click here for show credits.  Support Vulture Conservation, African Renaissance Productions Follow us on Twitter for the latest updates!  Join us on Facebook for behind the scenes pics and videos!

Just Say Tenso!

Molly talks about appropriate student/teacher social media relationships, recycling chewing gum, censorship in Brazil, the end of war in Iraq and the month-long traffic jam anticipated in China. Headlines: Teachers asked to unfriend students on Facebook, calling it “inappropriate.”, Used chewing gum could be turned into polymer for toys and tires, Brazilian ruling bars comedians(…)