Paul Harris
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/ 16 February 2003

The laughing stock of Africa

Africa is a tragic place: it is racked by war, corruption, Aids, famine and repression. Yet Africa’s leaders do very little to alleviate this situation. Africa’s leaders are worthy of little but international contempt. Outside their own continent Africa’s politicians have become a laughing stock.

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/ 7 April 2000

Tertiary education disaster looms

Marianne Merten Parliament has been warned of an impending collapse of university and technikon education because of drastically falling student numbers. The Council on Higher Education this week told MPs there were at least 100E000 fewer students at tertiary education institutions than predicted in 1995. And, the council said, the majority of students appear out […]