The latest fad doing the rounds: hints on how cash-strapped South Africans ought to save, well, cash. In these harsh economic times (where $1 will buy you up to three loaves of bread in Harare, but just one loaf and a few Chappies bubblegum in Durban) even black economic empowerment candidates have asked their rock-star wives to take it easy on the SUV pedals.
There can be little doubt that all South Africans need to commit themselves to transformation. The recent racist video taken at the University of the Free State and the persistence and extent of racialised patterns of poverty are just two of the more obvious reasons it is necessary to keep working to change society and to remove the legacy of apartheid.
The right to reply space encourages readers to feel a co-ownership of the newspaper so that it is a public debating space run by a wider forum, rather than just the reporters and editors who run it. So it pains me to intrude upon readers' space, but the article last week by a group of leaders at the University of KwaZulu-Natal deserves a second look, writes Ferial Haffajee.
As SRC officials and African staff at the University of KwaZulu-Natal we consider it necessary to indicate our position on the alleged rape of an American student at UKZN -- and specifically to reply to "On race and rape at UKZN" (November 6) by Lubna Nadvi. We condemn the rape of any student or staff member, regardless of their race or class.
Shamim "Chippy" Shaik has been stripped of his doctorate degree from the University of KwaZulu-Natal without reason, his brother and lawyer Yunis Shaik said on Sunday. Last year, media reports said that "more than two-thirds" of Shaik's 2003 PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the then-University of Natal had been plagiarised
South Africa's tertiary education system is operating at close to capacity with limited infrastructure and academic staffing resources available for expansion, Education Minister Naledi Pandor said in Durban on Thursday. Pandor said that the government hoped to achieve a higher education enrolment of 820 000 students by 2010.
At least three protesting students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal's Pietermaritzburg campus were wounded by police firing rubber bullets on Tuesday, the students' representative council said. Police spokesperson Inspector Joey Jeevan said officers used rubber bullets to disperse the crowd at 10am.
Well-known KwaZulu-Natal birder Robin Guy (75) was shot and killed during an attempted robbery in Bryanston, Johannesburg, on Wednesday night. He and his wife, from Underberg, had been in Johannesburg on a festive-season visit when two robbers disturbed a dinner on the verandah of his brother-in-law's home, Guy's journalist son, Duncan, said on Thursday.
A KwaZulu-Natal pilot project -- proven to reduce court backlogs and overcrowding in prisons drastically -- may be rolled out countrywide, if the government comes to the table with funding, the Justice and Constitutional Development Department said on Tuesday.
