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Rugby World Cup: Springboks beat Argentina 24-13 to win Bronze

Springboks has claimed third place at this years Rugby World cup after beating the Pumas 24 - 13.South Africa has 35% possession against Argentina 65% while in terms of territory, former had 37% and latter 63%. Springboks made 180 tackles against Argentina 100. Springboks duo of winger Bryan Habana and fly half Handre Pollard fell short in their bids for individual records despite helping the Springboks to win over Argentina in the bronze medal playoff at the Olympic Stadium.Bryan Habana needed one touchdown to set a new outright record for the most tries by a player in a Rugby World Cups, failed to get over the line in what was almost certainly his last tournament appearance and after being replaced 12 minutes from time and now remains tied with New Zealand great Jonah Lomu on 15.Handre Pollard booted four penalties and one conversion to finish with 14 points in the match, taking his total points tally for the tournament to 93, four behind the Argentine fly half Nicolas Sanchez who r

Computer programming gaining popularity in Africa

Schools across the world are encouraging entrepreneurs and technology creators to support the introduction of computer-programming in primary schools. In Africa and in particular South Africa , education experts are arguing that it will provide opportunities for school students to learn computer-programming skills with the  hope of attracting them to ICT-related subjects  at university.In Kenya, those lobbying are drawing together the subjects of design and technologies, and digital technologies. It is written on the assumption that all students from Primary 1 to Primary 8 will study both subjects.For form 1 to 4, school authorities will decide whether students can choose to continue in one or both students and, or  whether technologies specialisations  not provided for in these subjects will be offered. If embraced successfully, it will equip Kenyan students with the skills they need; not just to become competent consumers of technology, but to design and create.Computer science sk

Tapping millennial skills

Contador Harrison was born more than three decades ago and according to experts belong to millennial generation .Others prefer to call us Generation Y . I want to picture my working life and why its a topsy turvy affair. Overall, am not the type that believe in traditional thinking, I belong to 21st century liberal blue thinkers out there. How I spend my time on personal tasks and assignments largely depends on the value. How much of my day is dedicated to developing other people is almost less than 2%.In hyper-competitive world, everyone is busy practically all the time in order to maintain an edge and end results is to see money in the account. Most coders have come to realise that talent development is critical for future and just like organisational success, it requires continuous support from the so called C-suite leaders. Many of fellow millennials are still struggling to find ways to accommodate such in our super-busy lives.In the end, Generation Y still has to try the harde

Carlos Sainz Sochi Crash video

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