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Bergzicht Training & Support Centre, Stellenbosch

May 10, 2012 | German Consulate General Cape Town
Bergzicht

“Education is the only hope for a better future in Africa: Education and training open the doors for mankind”. This quote by Nelson Mandela is the guiding principle of the non-governmental organisation Bergzicht Training Centre. For the past 20 years, Bergzicht Training has been offering training in home management, education, frail care as well as hospitality and catering to unemployed and unskilled women from disadvantaged communities. Since the early days the organisation has been supported by the Hanns Seidel Foundation from Germany.

German-South African Year of Science begins

Apr 16, 2012 | German Embassy Pretoria
Schavan and Pandor

Germany and South Africa usher in a new era of cooperation with the official launch of the joint Year of Science on April 16 in Cape Town. The year promises dynamic offerings in both countries covering seven themes and demonstrates the long standing and successful scientific cooperation between the two nations. German Research Minister Schavan and South African Science and Technology Minister Pandor opened the event.

German Research Minister Schavan in South Africa

Apr 12, 2012 | BMBF/German Embassy Pretoria
Federal Education and Research Minister Annette Schavan

Germany's Research Minister Annette Schavan will travel to Cape Town, South Africa on Sunday, April 15. There, together with her counterpart Naledi Pandor, South African Minister of Science and Technology, she will open the German-South African Year of Science 2012/2013.

German Education Minister meets DAAD and Humboldt Foundation alumni in South Africa

Apr 10, 2012 | DAAD
Humboldt Foundation Fellows at Annual Meeting in Berlin

From April 13 to 15, an Alumni meeting of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation will be held in Cape Town under the motto, “Change by Exchange: Higher Education and Research Transformation in South Africa and Germany”. German Minister for Education and Research, Professor Annette Schavan will be in attendance together with South African Minister for Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor.

German-South African Year of Science 2012/2013

Apr 3, 2012 | German Consulate General Cape Town

The German-South African Science Year 2012/13 will be opened by two cabinet ministers in Cape Town on 16 April 2012.

Social Project in Sir Lowry´s Pass Village

Apr 2, 2012 | German Consulate General Cape Town
The kindergarten celebrates

A German social project in Sir Lowry´s Pass village helps kids in need. Underpriviledged children receive shelter and care.

Delegation of the Bavarian Landtag (Parliament) visits the Cape

Apr 2, 2012 | German Consulate General Cape Town
Rathaus / Muenchen

A Bavarian delegatin visited the Cape in March. The Petitions Committee held many discussions in Cape Town.

German at Stellenbosch University

Mar 20, 2012 | Deutsches Generalkonsulat Kapstadt
University Leibzig

On 28 March the German Section of the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at Stellenbosch University will launch a new bi-national MA double degree in German in partnership with the Herder Institute of Leipzig University (Germany) at STIAS in Stellenbosch.

German Embassy partners with Cape Town Opera on Fidelio production

Mar 2, 2012 | German Embassy Pretoria
Scene from Fidelio

With generous support from the German Embassy, the Cape Town Opera will present Beethoven's Fidelio March 7-10. The opera will be staged at the historic Castle of Good Hope for an unforgettable outdoor music experience.

Film 'Berlin Boxhagener Platz' at the Labia (15 March) and Alliance Francaise (15 March)

Mar 2, 2012 | German Consulate General Cape Town
Jürgen Vogel

1968 in East Berlin: student riots and the sexual revolution in the West, Soviet tanks in Prague. Meanwhile, grandma Otti (Gudrun Ritter) and her twelve-year-old grandson Holger (Samuel Schneider) have their own very special adventures at East Berlin's Boxhagener Platz.

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