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Staying Safe is the Most Important Lesson

So, Net Buddies, schools reopen for Matrics and Grade 7s on Monday and your emotions are likely to be mixed.  There’ll be the excitement of getting back to class, resuming your studies and seeing your friends … and then there’s the anxiety about the risks of leaving lockdown. We wish […]

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#PassTheMic – Series #1

If SA’s teens are looking for good role models during lockdown, they don’t need to look far.  Infinite Family’s Net Buddies are setting a GREAT example. We asked you to share what you’re doing to keep upbeat and – Yoh – you’re killing it!   Of course, there have been bad […]

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How Does a Species Exist More than 400 Million Years?

Dear Net Buddies and Blazers, Horseshoe crabs have survived four of the last five great mass extinctions. They outlived dinosaurs and countless other creatures. So how do they do it? A quote from Charles Darwin, architect of the Theory of Evolution, gives us a clue:  It is not the strongest […]

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There’s more to climbing mountains than reaching the top!

Dear Net Buddies & Blazers, Back in 1996, (before many of you were born and when South Africa’s new democracy was just getting started), schoolteacher (and now entrepreneur) Deshun Deysel found herself on Mount Everest as part of an expedition to plant our national flag on top of the world.  […]

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Head of the Class Fast Track #4: Prepositions of Place

Dear Net Buddies & Blazers, Did you see your friend at their house, in their house, or on their house – believe it or not, these are three different parts of your friends’ house, ranging from the entryway to needing a ladder to get to the roof. Lucky for all […]

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Serving Up a Second Life of Sustenance

Dear Net Buddies & Blazers, Great inspiring answers for what these building do today but no one guessed what they were originally: In 1921 these tall buildings were 56 grain silos sitting on the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town.  They are still located in the same place being impossible to […]

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