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This week: a sustainable mining initiative, EU funding for Nigeria and a “historic” university collaboration
In depth: South Africa’s universities minister has promised he will take action if it emerges that institutions that failed to allocate nearly a billion rand in aid to students were “involved in financial impropriety”.
Full story: Nzimande vows to follow through on unspent student grants