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/ 18 February 2008
The year 2008 marks 100 years of the pursuit of academic excellence for the University of Pretoria, a century in the service of knowledge. Let us reflect against the backdrop of the expectations that were created by General Jan Smuts in 1910 when he said the "University of Pretoria must become for this country what Oxford is for England".
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/ 18 February 2008
The KwaZulu-Natal health department has identified a quiet rural doctor as a troublemaker, charging him with misconduct for "wilfully and unlawfully without prior permission of [his] superiors rolling out prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission dual therapy to pregnant mothers and newborns".
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/ 18 February 2008
A study by researchers at Monash University in Australia has found that gastric banding surgery has a profound effect on one of society’s biggest health issues: diabetes. The four-year study monitored 60 volunteers for two years who underwent weight loss of more than 10% of their body weight.
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/ 18 February 2008
If you’ve got ambitions to be a CEO, then it’s apparently time to toughen up. According to a recent study from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, soft skills such as listening, flexibility and treating people with respect aren’t valued nearly as highly as more assertive attributes when it comes to hiring decisions.
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/ 18 February 2008
It was the 1980s and Nicaragua’s Sandinista revolution was captivating hearts and minds around the world. The olive-uniformed guerrillas had overthrown the hated Somoza dictatorship and were trying to build a more equal society by empowering women, giving peasants land and teaching the illiterate to read.
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/ 18 February 2008
Public universities are expected to ask the government on Monday to exempt them from Eskom’s load-shedding, which has gripped the country in the past few weeks. The national outages have undermined the smooth running of university administrations, disrupted lectures and placed millions of rands’ worth of research at risk.
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/ 18 February 2008
The definition of an “ideal employer” is very different for South African graduates compared with their European and North American counterparts, according to a new survey. Conducted by Magnet Communication, the survey reveals that graduates from Europe and the United States select companies such as Apple and Google as their ideal employers even though these companies recruit very few graduates.
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/ 18 February 2008
On a recent trip to New York, I passed a pleasant afternoon watching a series of unsavoury males being violently separated from their penises. The movie Teeth is an entertaining enough comedy-horror update of the myth of vagina dentata, or the toothed vagina. It tells the story of the teenaged Dawn, leading light of her local chastity chapter but struggling to contain her burgeoning desires.
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/ 18 February 2008
Presidential candidate Simba Makoni used the word “renewal” a total of 13 times during an exclusive interview with the Mail & Guardian, saying Zimbabwe needed fresh leadership to “heal the wounds” of 28 years of President Robert Mugabe’s rule. Makoni, who declared his candidacy recently, predicts a landslide win against Mugabe.
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/ 18 February 2008
The enterprises division in Eskom was responsible for the processes that culminated in the award of the tenders to which you refer in “Moosa in R38-billion tender conflict”. The innuendo that this process was in some way flawed or subject to political influence is totally unfounded, writes Brian A Dames.