Once upon a time, motorcycling was an activity associated, almost exclusively, with macho, bearded white men sporting ducktail hairstyles and clad in black leather jackets. The only black people riding motorbikes were company messengers.
Eduplex is the only mainstream facility where deaf learners receive their education alongside peers with normal hearing. This is achieved through the use of sophisticated hearing gadÂgets, a sound academic programme and dedicated teaching staff. It is a parallel medium school offering classes in English and Afrikaans.
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/ 10 November 2006
Soul City, a developmental and health advocacy NGO, has launched a campaign to empower and promote schools as places where orphans and vulnerable children can get care, love and support.
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/ 10 November 2006
South Africa is among the world’s worst when it comes to road accidents – a fact that is emphasised every year during the holiday periods when the number of accidents rise.
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/ 10 November 2006
The education community has been divided into two camps following Education Minister Naledi Pandor’s announcements on school-based violence.
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/ 8 November 2006
Hundreds of people will soon be heading to various beachfronts, rivers and dams to cool off as part of the summer holidays. Sadly, many will return home in body bags. According to the Medical Research Council’s latest data, drowning is the second-highest cause of death by injury, and 61% of drownings occur in the sea, lakes and dams.
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/ 7 November 2006
The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) held its sixth national congress, in Midrand, Gauteng, in a politically charged environment owing to the ongoing succession battle within the ANC. Sadtu has been very vocal about where its sympathy lies regarding who should lead the ANC. With its massive following of 230 000 members, it is key in deciding who wears the crown come 2009.
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/ 7 November 2006
When Nico Wiggil, a mathematics teacher at Laerskool Secunda in Mpumalanga, was told he was among the teachers who had won a trip to a prestigious United States-based space and rocket centre in Alabama earlier this year, he thought he was dreaming. “Incredible, overwhelmed, too good to be true” were the words Wiggil used to describe his feelings.
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/ 7 November 2006
Every teacher should be competent in HIV/Aids education and skills by 2015. This was one of the resolutions reached following a three-day meeting held in Boksburg on Gauteng’s East Rand. About 40 delegates from Commonwealth countries attended. The aim of the event was to share ideas on how to address the growing negative impact of the HIV/Aids pandemic on the education sector.
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/ 7 November 2006
Schools should be run like businesses with principals playing the role of chief executive officer, said Clem Sunter of the Anglo American Chairman’s Fund. Sunter was one of the speakers at the South African Principals’ Association annual conference held in Bloemfontein, Free State, last month.