BizNews BizNews Radio

Inspired by BizNews to fix education with a low-cost ‘granny model' – Pieter Steenekamp

Loading player...
A few years ago, BizNews challenged its readers to submit stories about their dream for South Africa. There was one resident from Mossel Bay who responded with his dream of fixing South Africa’s education system. He is Pieter Steenekamp who soon realised that you can’t fix tertiary education without doing something about primary and secondary education, so he shifted his focus to that, and opened a school called the Novel Academy for all ages in Mossel Bay. Steenekamp told Linda Van Tilburg that his school is based on the principles of an Indian education scientist, Sugar Mitra known for his TED talks who supports self-teaching and its does not rely on teachers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
31 Jan 2022 10AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

Other recent episodes

Neal Froneman on his bid to bring Formula One back to South Africa

He turned around mines others had written off and built Sibanye-Stillwater into a global giant. Now Neal Froneman wants to bring Formula One back to South Africa, on 600 hectares of Swartland farmland rather than at Kyalami. In conversation with Alec Hogg, the Blue Mountain Racing chairman explained why he…
27 Sep 11AM 43 min

Helen Zille on Joburg, coalitions and the price of power

She said she hadn't exchanged a single word with the ANC about a post-election deal. Helen Zille then told Alec Hogg who she thought was talking to them. The DA's Johannesburg mayoral candidate took on Corné Mulder's claim of a backdoor ANC pact and compared Gayton McKenzie's Patriotic Alliance to…
25 Sep 12PM 34 min

Why Jakkie Cilliers (ISS) guarantees Africa in 2050 will be far more stable than today

At a time when news headlines across Africa highlight political friction, economic distress and security concerns, a guarantee of better times ahead may sound almost provocatively optimistic. Yet Dr Jakkie Cilliers, founder of the Institute for Security Studies and head of its African Futures and Innovation Programme, bases that guarantee…
25 Sep 5AM 35 min

Andy Calitz on Eskom, the job he didn't get, and what came next

He was on the shortlist to run Eskom and lost out to André de Ruyter. Years later, Andy Calitz, who ran South Africa's transmission grid before a career that took him from Shell to Gazprom's control room and the helm of LNG Canada, still thinks about it most weeks. In…
25 Sep 3AM 55 min
All episodes