Three people per bedsit and six to a one-bedroom flat is what Cape Town city officials are proposing as the standard for government’s multibillion-rand N2 Gateway shack eradication project, according to a confidential draft document in the possession of the Mail & Guardian.
Christian groups clashed with Minister of Education Kader Asmal over Curriculum 2005, report Marianne Merten and Edwin Naidu The revised National Curriculum Statement has seen Minister of Education Kader criticised in print and broadcast media for his “undemocratic” and “dictatorial” behaviour. Opponents of the statement, including Reverend Kenneth Meshoe, MP, and leader of the African […]
The government is resisting the impoverished 4 000-strong Richtersveld community’s claim for the restitution of mineral rights in the vast stretches of diamond-rich coastal land currently held by state-owned miner Alexkor, citing changes in the mining rights regime. If the Land Claims Court agrees, the community may lose its seven-year legal battle to win restitution of the land.
The African National Congress’s Western Cape conference has been postponed for the fifth time, amid continuing organisational disarray that has fuelled backroom manoeuvring for leadership positions. Current provincial ANC leader Ebrahim Rasool will stand for a third term at the June conference, but a challenge is looming from the ”Africanist camp”.
A study conducted by the Centre for Social Science Research at the University of Cape Town and the University of Michigan, started tracking about 4 800 youths in 2002 to gauge their opportunities and challenges in democratic South Africa. TheTeacher explores some of the findings of this study.
Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel’s mother worked at Cape Town garment maker Rex Trueform for 18 years; trade unionist turned MP Connie September clocked in at the factory; and before 65-year-old community radio veteran Zane Ibrahim was born, his mother also worked there. Today 1 000 jobs are threatened by the looming closure of Cape Town’s — and South Africa’s — oldest clothing manufacturer.
Controversial vitamin therapist Matthias Rath has blitzed Cape Town townships with pamphlets and posters attacking the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) as a spreader of ”disease and death among our people” and the Advertising Standards Authority as ”helping to protect drug industry monopolies”. It emerged this week that the South African National Civics Organisation in Khayelitsha has endorsed the pamphlet.
Only 56% of 18-year-old African matriculants believe they have a good chance of landing a job within three years, compared with 85% of their white and 78% of their coloured counterparts, according to a survey of Cape Town youth. The survey of youngsters aged 14 to 22 also found that 22% of white 15-year-old boys worked in part-time jobs while at school, while only 1% of African male learners did.
Laugh It Off, the brand parody company that has been locked in a dispute over freedom of expression versus trademark protection with international brewer SABMiller for the past two years, will have its day in the Constitutional Court next Tuesday. At the heart of the legal argument is the parody specialists’ T-shirt ”Black Labour, White Guilt”.
Former anti-apartheid cleric Allan Boesak is to use his considerable oratorical powers to persuade community and church leaders to support a golf and lifestyle estate development near George. The Lagoon Bay Lifestyle Estate is chaired by South Africa’s former ambassador to Washington and now prominent businessman Franklin Sonn.