Her multiple skills make it rather difficult to describe her in just one word. And in trying to capture the essence of who she really is, one would need a dozen superlatives.
The department of education disclosed the alarming escalation of teenaged pregnancy that made headlines last year. More than 72 000 girls aged between 13 and 19 did not attend school because they were pregnant.
I am principal of a school called Nkone Maruping Primary School, situated on the outskirts of an RDP settlement called Braamfischerville, named after the struggle icon, Braam Fischer. It is not far away from Dobsonville and Roodepoort, west of Gauteng.
When Kwame Nkrumah remarked 50 years ago that "the independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked with the total liberation of Africa" he may not have known how much of a catalyst he was providing for the subsequent wave of decolonisation that swept the continent.
"They read so badly, they couldn’t read the question papers – and they spelt so badly, they couldn’t write their names," a Cape Town school principal said in disgust about his grade eight learners.
Did you know that by defaulting on an R8 000 loan, you could end up paying R61 000? This happened to a client of a microlender who stopped making repayments on his loan. Although the bank came to an agreement with him, legally he was obliged to pay off R61 000 in R700-a-month instalments.
To celebrate International Women’s Day on Thursday, Ipas, an NGO promoting women’s health around the world, is holding a seminar in Rosebank, Johannesburg, where leaders in the field will analyse progress made in the promotion of women’s health — especially regarding unsafe abortions. Ipas country director Mosotho Gabriel spoke to the Mail & Guardian Online.
The African National Congress (ANC)-led government has failed the nation by not providing free education in all public schools, the Congress of South African Students (Cosas) said on Wednesday. ”Cosas demands that all private schools be nationalised and further demands the provision of free education in all public schools,” Cosas president Kenny Motshegoa said in a statement.
Victims in the Republic of South Africa (Virsa) will lead a march on Saturday to government offices around the country to demand a crime-free and corruption-free country. ”We are giving ordinary people an opportunity to voice out their opinions about the government’s negative attitude towards crime,” Virsa spokesperson Steph Hartung said on Wednesday.
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South Africa’s cricket team was ”safe and calm” after a gas blast in their hotel in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on Wednesday, Cricket South Africa spokesperson Gordon Templeton said. ”Shortly after the blast, which occurred on the eighth floor of the hotel at about 8am [local time], all guests were evacuated,” Templeton said in a statement.