New analysis compares literacy vs. poverty rates for 10,000 districts, 42,000 schools and 3 million kids. Is your school a ...

At 11.30am on 29 May 1953, Edmund Hillary hacked his way through the final snow slope to the summit of Everest, the wind tearing at his down suit, the air thin enough to make every step a battle.

Decades of poor policy, uncertainty, onerous transformation requirements, and threats of nationalisation have crippled South Africa’s once world-leading mining industry.