A Bill against Taiwanese independence, which is to be put before the Chinese legislature, brought more than 15 000 protesters on to the streets of Taipei on Sunday, amid fears that it will be used by Beijing to justify military action. The contents of the anti-secession law will be made public later this week.
The African music industry is in for a long overdue facelift. MTV base — MTV’s African music channel — kicked off with all the appropriate glitz and glamour last week. Nadine Botha takes a closer look.
He is world famous, and there is no doubt he cares passionately about development. Bono, the Irish rock singer, has many qualifications to be the next president of the World Bank — overseeing global development efforts, a job that becomes vacant in June when James Wolfensohn resigns.
Eight civil society bodies on Sunday urged President Thabo Mbeki and his Cabinet not to let the Directorate of Special Operations, commonly known as the Scorpions, to fall under the police’s control. They said the elite agency ”is unique in that it can analyse, investigate and prosecute” anyone irrespective of their public standing”.
The Lions made short work of the Dolphins on the final day of their Supersport Series match at the Wanderers on Sunday, clinching a victory over the previously unbeaten visitors by an innings and 130 runs. The Lions took took control from the start, when Willie Motaung and Adam Bacher compiled the season’s highest first-wicket partnership of 178.
More than 90 countries or disputed territories are contaminated by unexploded weapons, and more than 50 by anti-vehicle mines, according to the first global survey of their impact on civilians, aid workers and peacekeepers, published on Monday.
The former Italian hostage who saw her rescuer shot dead at a United States checkpoint in Baghdad said on Sunday they might have been targeted because of US objections to Italy’s policy of negotiating with kidnappers. Giuliana Sgrena, a reporter for the far-left daily Il Manifesto, was wounded as bullets ripped into the car taking her to Baghdad airport to be flown out of Iraq.
Syrian forces will on Monday begin withdrawing to the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon amid intense international pressure for a swift and total pullout. The troops will move after a meeting in Damascus between the Syrian and Lebanese presidents, the Lebanese Defence Minister Abdul-Rahim Murad said, adding that the moves would be completed in two to three days.
At a recent GDE (Gauteng department of education) conference on inclusion, someone from the floor asked when we can expect full inclusion to take place in our schools. The speaker, an official representing the Department of Education (DoE), said that the date it is working towards is 2024.
In August, I was asked to share some of the “cutting-edge essence” of my 35 years of experience with OBE in two seminars at the University of Pretoria. It was an exciting day for me – an opportunity to address some of the most basic concepts surrounding OBE thinking and practice in South Africa and elsewhere, and to respond to a host of deep and challenging questions about learners, learning and learning systems.