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/ 18 September 2006
There was a time when the tiny town of Alicedale in the Eastern Cape was a major railway junction between Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg. Now private-public investment to rejuvenate Alicedale, which started becoming a ghost town, and drastically reduce unemployment by 75% has yielded no results for many locals.
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/ 1 September 2006
A document presented to President Thabo Mbeki by the Eastern Cape provincial executive committee has painted a grim picture of leadership paralysis, political infighting and rebellion in the ranks of the African National Congress that could thwart the crucial provincial conference later this month. ”The ANC has never experienced such high levels of ill-discipline, defiance [and] infighting within members of the ANC,” the document says.
The African National Congress’s provincial executive council in the Eastern Cape has revoked all the powers and functions of the party’s ”disruptive” Amathole region — the second largest in the province — a month before the provincial African National Congress’s elective conference. The move is likely to galvanise a power struggle between senior party leaders in the province.
Winner of the Steve Biko Memorial Award Mbuyisi Mgibisa argues that many South African community radio stations are neglecting their public role, with a number of journalists doubling as sales reps and marketers.
Thabo Mbeki visits a community crossing the digital divide, writes Mbuyisi Mgibisa Ten years ago, Tsilithwa locality was one of the least desirable addresses in the Transkei. It had been stricken by poverty, unemployment and disease. Adult illiteracy was widespread and the drop-out rate of learners from school high. Today, it is an attractive, stable […]
Mbuyisi Mgibisa finds that converted buses may be tomorrow’s classrooms for Eastern Cape rural schools Deep in the rural area of Transkei, 35 kilometres from Umtata, Vukani Senior Primary School still experiences a shortage of textbooks and furniture as well as the need to renovate classrooms. School principal, Mavis Nomvuyo Ngxambula says the school received […]
Eric Njokweni attended school with Mandela in 1938 and 1939 during Level 4 and 5 classes (Grades 11 and 12) at Healdtown. Njokweni says Mandela was a friendly and outgoing individual who formed close and lasting relationships with his classmates and the civic authorities in Fort Beaufort. ‘He was an outstanding classmate, a friend and […]
Education is a lifelong concern for former president Nelson Mandela and much of his time is spent trying to redress the imbalances of the past. Nelson Mandela was born Rolihlahla Dalibhunga Mandela on July 18 1918 at Mvezo rural village, 35kms north of Umtata. Mandela’s given name Rolihlahla, in his Xhosa home-language, means ‘stirring up […]