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/ 25 February 2011
President Jacob Zuma is once again pursuing his lawsuit against cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro for the "rape of justice" cartoon published two years ago.
The UN’s Frank LaRue said in Johannesburg this week that there can be no democracy without the internet as well as no development.
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/ 11 February 2011
Group opposed to ‘secrecy’ Bill becomes a formally constituted organisation
Cricket South Africa approved a bonus of over R1m to chief executive Gerald Majola, while a committee was largely in the dark about two other bonuses.
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/ 14 January 2011
Mail & Guardian photographer Oupa Nkosi is facing trial for "assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm"
Doing a PhD was nowhere in journalist Glenda Daniels’s ‘life plan’ — but now she’s hooked.
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/ 5 November 2007
Recently, over lunch with friends from overseas, a long discussion ensued about the behaviour and discipline – or lack thereof – of children these days. Far from being fuddy-duddies, the pregnant couple in their mid-30s said they would not raise their offspring in England, because the rudeness and lack of discipline among children there was horrific.
Younger children are experimenting with drugs more than ever in the history of South Africa, and it appears to be widely spread over the racial, cultural and economic sections of society.
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/ 28 February 2007
When Robbie Brighton was doing a BCom degree, he did not have a clue he would one day become a maths teacher. But then, in 1997, he was invited to do sports coaching at a school while still studying. He enjoyed the kids so much that he decided to complete his BCom and go on to a teaching diploma to teach maths. “I really liked the enthusiasm of the children.
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/ 7 February 2007
There is a wonderful inherent logic and rationality to maths, and not just with equations. It is a great pity that the department of education is unable or unwilling to apply some of this rationale to dealing with the problem of low pass rates in maths in the country.