South Africa

Rebecca Melone is an Alison graduate from South Africa. She shares her story of loss and lifelong learning with the Alison Blog. “My name is Rebecca Melone. I am a South African, born and bred. After high school, I had no direction and I wasted a lot of time. Eventually, I took a job with…

[email protected] is a South African organisation devoted to providing access to work placement, internships and educational programmes to young people in South Africa. [email protected] is both an Implementation Partner of the state’s Youth Employment Service and an Alison collaborator. The Alison Blog caught up with [email protected]’s Director Erica Kempken, as well as two successful [email protected]…

South Africa is a country known for its history, rich cultural diversity, and heritage. It’s a melting pot of cultures and where the social and cultural interactions among its various ethnic groups make South Africa a unique and vibrant mosaic of traditions and customs. In this article, we’ll look at why Heritage Day is important…

Ivy Makoni is an Alison Learner based in Pretoria, South Africa. Besides being an Alison graduate, Ivy also runs the highly successful Facebook group, Alison Students in South Africa, which helps over 3,000 Learners with all their Alison-related queries. Originally from Zimbabwe, Ivy’s incredible story of triumphing over adversity through education makes her a fantastic…

Hazel Kendrick is a lecturer in Business Management in South Africa and finds that Alison’s online courses allow her to stay up to date with her teaching methods. As well as being an Alison learner, Hazel also teaches online and recommends Alison courses to her students.  “My name is Hazel Kendrick. I am a lecturer…

Iain Batten is an Alison Learner from South Africa. His remarkable story of overcoming educational challenges, from dyslexia to outdated institutional biases, is an incredible tale of perseverance, commitment and the importance of education. As if his story wasn’t inspirational enough, Iain has also beaten cancer three times and is currently taking the fight to…

“My name is Nico Carlo Wyngaard, from Cape Town, South Africa. I finished my high school career at Monument Park High School and I then studied through the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, where I obtained my NDip in Chemical Engineering. I started my career as an intern at HySA Catalysis, where I was was…

Can you find South Africa on a map? What else do you know about this African nation with about 59 million people?

Dr. Eurika Mogane is a doctor and Alison student from South Africa. Motivated by her medical expertise and her belief in the universal good of free education, Eurika took part in the Alison Coronavirus Course Translation Project last year, translating the life-saving course into Zulu.  As well her great work on the online learning front,…

To help the world combat the Covid-19 pandemic, Alison launched the course Coronavirus – What you need to know. In order to make sure that no one was excluded from accessing possibly life-saving information, Alison committed to translating the course into as many languages as possible. To achieve this ambitious goal, Alison reached out to its community of…