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/ 10 January 2008
Is your school up for a new challenge this year? How about "going green"? More schools are becoming environmentally aware and are nurturing a new generation who are tuned to the fragility of the planet.
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/ 10 January 2008
After 17 years of teaching older children I realised I actually had a strong passion for working with small children. I decided to resign from teaching to pursue my dream of specialising in the little ones’ education and care. I obtained a diploma in pre-primary education and found a position as a grade R practitioner.
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/ 10 January 2008
Mark Twain wrote that the only way to maintain one’s health was to "eat what you don’t want to eat, drink what you don’t like and do what you’d rather not". While keeping healthy requires sacrifice, the benefits will leave you feeling better and happier than before.
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/ 10 January 2008
I’ve often bemoaned the lack of interesting, affordable, off-the-beaten-track local places to visit for short breaks and weekends. But now I have found one – Lesheba Wilderness – and to my shame it has been around for 14 years, hidden at the top of the magnificent Soutpansberg mountains, a short hop from Louis Trichardt.
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/ 10 January 2008
Do trade unions live up to their members’ expectations and are they in tune with members’ needs?
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/ 10 January 2008
A friend, and also a brilliant maths teacher, told me that as a child in Hitler’s Germany she stretched out her little arm in the "Heil Hitler" salute.
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/ 10 January 2008
The ANC, blithely ignoring all the warnings before its Polokwane conference, has got itself in a pretty pickle over Jacob Zuma. That much was obvious from its national executive committee meeting this week, which spent hours debating what to do about the detailed graft, money-laundering and racketeering charges now laid against the ANC president.
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/ 10 January 2008
Carole Podetti-Ngono represents a rapidly growing brand and is a symbol of passionate and selfless teaching.
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/ 10 January 2008
Seventy of South Africa’s top teachers gathered at the Presidential Guesthouse at the end of last year for the annual National Teachers’ Awards.
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/ 10 January 2008
Another year is ahead of us and, like its predecessor, 2008 is bound to be fast-paced and filled with challenges. Follow our guidelines to ensure that, at least financially, you are ready to tackle the new year.