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/ 12 February 2008
‘Get out of here. You are not one of us. You do not understand our culture,” said the angry man while pointing his firearm at Roy Naicker, who was sitting in his car. The gunman pulled the trigger, the gun clicked, but no bullet emerged. Naicker escaped harm. This was his welcome as the new principal of Nonhlevu Secondary School in Groutville on the north coast of KwaZulu-Natal in January 1999
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/ 12 February 2008
Mpho Thibedi* has a personality that naturally qualifies her to work with young and fragile minds. This serves her well as an early childhood development (ECD) teacher at a primary school in Meadowlands Zone One.
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/ 12 February 2008
Most TV viewers are used to seeing and hearing the slogan "South Africa: alive with possibility", but few know how it came about.
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/ 12 February 2008
Giving a voice to young people is one of the aims of the Youth Policy Initiative (YPI), a project led by the Human Sciences Research Council in partnership with the youth sector, key government departments, non-governmental organisations and the media.
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/ 12 February 2008
The United States Homeland Security Secretary, Michael Chertoff, has insisted the six Guantánamo Bay prisoners accused over the September 11 attacks will be fairly tried, despite concerns about a ”show trial”. Military prosecutors said on Monday they would seek the death penalty against the six.
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/ 12 February 2008
Bophelo Mogashoa is a two-year-old girl living with her parents, Boitumelo and Jabu Kubheka, in Diepkloof Zone Five in Soweto. She looks like any other child her age, but there is one significant difference: She is deaf and her parents discovered her condition only by chance.
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/ 11 February 2008
The Pentagon on Monday sought murder and conspiracy charges against the alleged planner of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and five others and will ask they be executed if convicted. Mohammed, a Pakistani national better known as KSM, has said he planned every aspect of the September 11 attacks.
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/ 11 February 2008
The Competition Commission has referred three pharmaceutical companies to the Competition Tribunal for prosecution after they were found to be colluding when bidding for government tenders, it said on Monday. ”Collusive behaviour would undoubtedly be one of the contributing factors to higher prices in healthcare,” said competition commissioner Shan Ramburuth.
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/ 11 February 2008
Argentina and Chile will host the 2009 Dakar Rally between January 3 and 18 with Buenos Aires as the start and finish city, organisers said on Monday. The move comes after the 2008 edition of the event was cancelled for the first time since its inception in 1979 due to security concerns after four French tourists were murdered in Mauritania on December 24.