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/ 11 February 2008
From a distance Shadrack Monkhe bears an uncanny resemblance to the Collect-a-Can man seen in the recycling organisation’s advertisements. At the edge of a road in Vanderbijlpark, he pushes a wheelbarrow heaped to capacity with littered beverage containers. Even the setting is appropriate.
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/ 11 February 2008
I’ve never really been taken in by the whole “men in dresses, beard and Kalashnikov” combo. The same goes for the awe and fear the image inspires in certain quarters. Then again, I’m no Salman Rushdie. I’ve been known to don the occasional burqa — but only for festive purposes, and not on pain of death.
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/ 11 February 2008
Sarah Jessica Parker nailed the point with a stiletto: good shoes are better than a bad love affair and great shoes can outlast love itself. But while many women fantasise about owning a trophy set of sparkly Jimmy Choos, the reality for most South Africans, particularly children, is that a plain pair of shoes remains a luxury.
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/ 11 February 2008
In a paper published last month in the SA Tydskrif vir Natuurwetenskap en Tegnologie (SA Magazine for Science and Technology) on South Africa’s decade of experience with outcomes-based education (OBE), I concluded that what the department of education called Âoutcomes-based education/Curriculum 2005 and tried unsuccessfully to implement from 1998 fell far short of being ”real” OBE for at least seven key reasons. Each of those reasons contains a valuable lesson as South Africans now attempt to determine: where do we go from here?
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/ 11 February 2008
Elections have been prominent in African news of late. Last year saw a deeply flawed Nigerian poll return a new president. This year has begun with a flood of stories about the bloody mayhem in Kenya. It takes little courage to predict that the electoral focus will soon shift to Zimbabwe.
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/ 11 February 2008
Simba Makoni chose a five-star hotel to announce his candidacy for Zimbabwe’s presidency recently, but he will have to get down in the trenches if he is to pose a serious threat to President Robert Mugabe. His announcement whipped up a great deal of enthusiasm among a Zimbabwean electorate demoralised by the opposition’s failure at the weekend to agree on a united front against Mugabe.
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/ 11 February 2008
As if work isn’t difficult enough. It turns out that as well as being brilliant all day every day, lucky and well connected, there are several other factors for becoming successful that are beyond our control. For example, how tall you are, your name, what time you get up in the mornings and even the colour of your hair can have a bearing on how much you get paid and whether you’ll be promoted.
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/ 11 February 2008
Maskew Miller Longman South African School Dictionary (Maskew Miller Longman) R105, 95
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/ 11 February 2008
Absa, South Africa’s biggest retail bank, said on Monday it expects group headline earnings per share and EPS to be between 15% and 19% higher in 2007. Absa, which is majority-owned by Britain’s Barclays, said headline EPS and EPS for the bank unit would be between 25% and 28% higher than the previous year.
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/ 11 February 2008
The debate about a proposed media appeal tribunal should not be reduced to a love and hate relationship between the media and politicians. Instead, it should continue to focus on the role of different societal actors, including the media, in defending their own and each others’ rights, writes Robert Nkuna.