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A tool, a hurdle, a weapon. An inescapable part of our lives. Language is all that and more. It is also part of our identity as distinct human beings.
Ilse Ferreira looks at the challenges facing the profession and how universities are helping to improve the quality of engineers.
Architects work in a challenging environment. We have fewer than 4 000 registered architects in the country, compared with Egypt’s 14 000.
The Corporate Laws Amendment Act, which became law at the end of last year, has introduced a number of changes to company legislation. The Act has introduced the concept of a…
Democracy has always, in its broadest definition, been based on the rule of law. Currently, this premise reels under the pressure of recent events in the South African judiciary.…
Sedibeng, the district municipality comprising the municipalities of Midvaal, Lesedi and Emfuleni, is a district with a long-term plan that shows it is far from being reticent.…
The Law Society of South Africa has placed transformation at the top of its agenda. Its close involvement with the Legal Services Charter process is evidence of this. The charter…
A lawyer’s duty must reach beyond the letter of the law, says Professor Christof Heyns, dean of the faculty of law at the University of Pretoria. But he believes students are not…
“It is not enough for large legal firms to quote the number of black lawyers in their firm when vying for contracts,” says Mohamed Husain of Knowles Husain Lindsay, who has been…
Rural areas — in any country — have always presented a challenge to both the inhabitants and local government in terms of infrastructure and services. This makes economic…
The word fibre immediately conjures up an image of something one should ingest in sufficient quantities to keep the digestive system healthy — and perhaps it brings to mind…
Fresh fruit remains at the centre of most healthy diets. Apples, oranges, apricots, pears, in fact, anything that one can eat fresh has health benefits to the consumer. And fresh…
The future is green — or that is the plan. All over the globe answers are being sought and many have been found already that will reduce carbon emissions, reduce the use of toxic…
Forestry is a topic that doesn’t often make headlines — except when runaway fires destroy thousands of trees, as happened recently across the country on a large scale, in what…
Switching used to be something you did with a fellow player’s cards when he left the game for a visit to the bathroom. Nowadays this term has technological significance beyond…
The practice of modern medicine is a far cry from the staid old family physician with the white coat. In fact, doctors wearing white coats these days are the exception, not the…
