UNIVERSITIES in South Africa are owed R633-million in unpaid fees and technikons about R200-million, e-tv news reported on Wednesday. The University of Transkei tops the list of struggling campuses and will have to rely on a bank loan until it receives a state subsidy in two months. As a result of unpaid fees administrators have no option but to apply for bank loans to keep going. Dwindling donor funds and rapidly decreasing state subsidies mean that student fees comprise the major source of income for them. – Sapa
THEY SAID IT, from Sapa
“Whoever is caught looting red-handed will only get judgment from God.”
A message from the Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD), the Rwandan-backed rebel group that controls Goma. RCD officers have executed a number of people caught looting in the city.
“Those policemen did not do their job. They must all go back to the depot to learn from scratch… My name is dirty… I’m looking for my name…”
Jan Pyp van Wyk, one of the six men arrested in connection with the rape of baby Tshepang in the Northern Cape. They were released after DNA tests could not link them with the crime.
“Often they arrive here on Monday and play funeral-funeral, from where the bodies are laid out to where the people cry.”
Sally Hendricks, teacher of a class with learning problems at the Westbury Primary School in Johannesburg.
“The instability has gone on far too long. The levels of poverty and conflict are increasing, and if you add to that a fraudulent election, it has to be avoided.”
President Thabo Mbeki about Zimbabwe.
“Is anyone out there?”
A Johannesburg rate payer in an e-mail to the city accounts department. Several residents have complained about the city’s billing system and call centre.
“Yeah, and I bet they didn’t find a brain either.”
Australian cricket captain Steve Waugh, after Pollock told journalists that a brain scan of Steve Elworthy, who was hit by a blow on the helmet and lay comatose for some time during Tuesday’s match, had come back clear.