Accused serial killer Robert Pickton described how he killed prostitutes after having sex with them and used his pigs to help dispose of the remains. Witness Andrew Bellwood testified that Pickton showed him handcuffs and play-acted as he described stroking their hair and telling them everything would be okay, ”it’s over now”.
More than 12 000 people took refuge in evacuation centres in north-west Japan on Tuesday after an earthquake the previous day flattened homes, killing nine people and injuring more than 1 000, and triggered a leak of contaminated water from a nuclear plant.
Togara Sanyatwe was buried in the sprawling West Park cemetery on the edge of Bulawayo at 83 years of age. The granite headstone reveals nothing more about his life but he would already have been considered an elder of his community at the time those who now lie around him were being born.
The National Research Foundation (NRF) is investigating ways to increase significantly the monetary values of annual grants for honours, masters and doctoral students as part of its plan to produce more researchers. Professor Mzamo Mangaliso, president and chief executive of the NRF, told Higher Learning that the allocations to honours and masters students, in particular, “were woefully inadequate”.
Is Ronald Suresh Roberts’ <i>Fit to Govern</i> fit to defend Thabo Mbeki from (mainly) "illiberal" critics of different hues? Roberts has positioned himself as a radical nationalist, and unfortunately most critiques of his book to date presume he genuinely speaks from the left, writes Patrick Bond.
Welcome to the University of Michigan (UM) in the city of Ann Arbor, near Detroit, the largest majority African-American city in the United States (US) and also near the city of Dearborn, home to the largest Arab population outside the Middle East. UM ranks as the number two public university and is one of the largest research universities in the US.
The psychologist BF Skinner, in 1964, said: “Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” Do universities provide an adequate education to South Africa’s budding social scientists? Having experienced the university system from the inside, I think I am fairly well placed to critique what I believe are the dilemmas of a tertiary education, writes Suntosh Pillay.
As tantalising as titles and book covers go, I can’t remember one that comes close to Shimmer Chinodya’s <i>Strife</i>. When I saw the cover of silhouetted people, arms flailing in the air, and a yellow flame, I thought of the oppressed getting fed up with a dictatorship and rising up in anger.
Like pride, lust goes before a fall. In his novel, <b>When a Man Cries</b> (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press), Siphiwo Mahala chronicles the downfall and uphill struggle of municipal councillor and serial seducer Themba Limba. This is an extract from chapter 11, "Should a man cry?":
Told in the first person, Elias Masilela’s<b> Number 43 Trelawney Park KwaMagoga</b> (David Philip) puts a tragic, and in some ways nostalgic, human face to life in exile during the apartheid years. The book tells the story of 25 PAC and ANC members who passed through Number 43, Trelawney Park, writes Vicki Robinson.