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/ 1 December 2006
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The current Aids death rate of adults means that in just one year there are about 200Â 000 children who are orphaned. December 1 marks World Aids Day and the spotlight shines on children who have lost parents to Aids. It is a social crisis and it is going to be an even bigger crisis in a few years’ time.
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/ 10 November 2006
Asperger’s syndrome is on the increase in South Africa, adding another challenge to teachers’ daily tasks.
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/ 8 November 2006
Asperger’s syndrome is on the increase in South Africa, adding another challenge to teachers’ daily tasks. This was highlighted at an international conference on autism, held in Cape Town in October, which also focused on Asperger’s syndrome as the more verbal and high-functioning form of autism.
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/ 7 November 2006
The neurological condition attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is genetic, new research has found. “You often find that if one child is ADHD, the other children are too, because the condition in 80% of cases is genetic, research shows,” says Professor André Venter, an international expert based at the University of the Free State.
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/ 7 November 2006
The overwhelming majority of South Africans — a total of 90% — say they respect teachers for their dedicated service to children. This is according to the South African Social Attitudes Survey (Sasas), which has just been published by the Human Sciences Research Council.
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/ 20 September 2002
For once my sympathies lie with men. If the new trend to catch a man is to smile, accept a date, make him pay for your dinner, act coy and then act more coy, before finally giving him the cold shoulder — when you’re interested in a possible relationship– where does that leave a man?
Former CEO of the Civil Society Indaba Jacqui Brown’s reinstatement yesterday after being found not guilty of serious financial misconduct by the Commission for Concilliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA), will not jeopardise plans for the World Summit, which begins in a few days.
A management course designed specifically to promote women educators began in Johannesburg this year — a first for South Africa.
South Africans will constitute about 10 000 of the 65 000 delegates who will descend on Johannesburg for the World Summit on Sustainable Development next month.
Less than four months before the World Summit on Sustainable Development begins in Johannesburg, there is no sign that the split in the civil society process is being mended.