The United States released a paper titled "A Nation at Risk".
The South African government will spend R207-billion on education.
Many consider education in South Africa to be in a state of emergency.
Potholes were the least of the problems on day one of the solar car race around South Africa and there was no revving of engines at the starting line.
Not since the xenophobic attacks of 2008 have South Africa’s underlying and unresolved patterns of violence burst as clearly into the open.
The "global war on terror" and its awful sequelae seem very far away to most South Africans.
One thing governments are slow to learn is that you cannot deal with complex political threats through force, says Sam Sole.
Victor Moses’s arrival at Chelsea from Wigan Athletic marks a significant staging post in his quest to reach the game’s summit.
Proper human resource development and career and succession planning in academia are far more important.
Expelled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema is back in the media eye but there are doubts about whether his political career can be resuscitated.