The chief rabbi’s confident claim of the importance of the newly published Bill of Responsibilities raises the question of the role of religion in the development of our constitutional society. The Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, as we shall show, but does religion promote the Constitution, as the rabbi claims?
Fannie Sebolela, head of Khensani Primary School in Soshanguve, Pretoria, is "always on the move". When he is not in the classroom, he is out and about calling on company executives to raise funds for his school.
The rumours that have persistently swirled around President Thabo Mbeki’s meeting with arms bidders, together with allegations that he himself received ”commissions” or channelled money to his party, are extremely damaging to the Office of the Presidency and need to be confronted.
The Sexual Offences Act of 1957 prohibits sex work. It has its roots in the archaic Immorality Act, which outlawed same-sex relationships and relationships between black and white. Yet the Sexual Offences Act is seldom used to prosecute sex workers — probably because it is hard to catch someone in the sex act and to prove it was for financial gain.
President Thabo Mbeki has been challenged to reveal in court whether the Scorpions are currently investigating him or any member of his Cabinet, their family, friends or associates. This challenge is made by businessman Bob Glenister in an affidavit filed in the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday.
The problems with outcomes-based education (OBE) that teachers and the department of education are faced with relate to the particular South African path that we have followed in the process of getting to where we are now.
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Using tiny brushes and chisels, workers picking at a big, greenish-black rock in the basement of North Dakota’s state museum are meticulously uncovering something amazing: a nearly complete dinosaur, skin and all. It’s among just a few mummified dinosaurs in the world, say researchers.
Belgian political parties announced on Tuesday they had reached a deal to form a new national government, ending a nine-month political stalemate that had threatened to split the country apart. Prime Minister-designate Yves Leterme, whose Flemish Christian Democrats won elections in June, announced the deal after all-night talks.
Jeremy Cronin, the deputy general secretary of the South African Communist Party, suggested in Parliament on Tuesday that there should be a council of state, which would be a super-Cabinet with a strategic planning mandate. Croning was speaking during debate on the Appropriation Bill.