How can teachers not be essential? I am a matric student currently attending Pretoria High School for Girls. I would like to voice my opinion on the recent strike action on behalf of the youth of South Africa. I hope that Minister of Public Service and Administration Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi is a subscriber of your newspaper […]
Evolution must be taught Your story last week about the teaching of evolution in schools refers. There are only two ways known to us in which new species could have appeared on Earth — either fully formed by miraculous, instant creation or by evolutionary change in older species. Religious groups that accept the first method […]
Govt out of touch David Macarlane (June 22) highlights the education department’s flawed policy of requiring qualifying schools to exempt poor parents from fees, while failing to compensate them for lost revenue. In fact, it is the fee-paying parents, many of whom make considerable sacrifices to meet their obligations, who are subsidising exempted parents. Education […]
Amnesty for Zuma? I would like to propose that a resolution be put forward in Parliament, when it assembles again, to allow ANC president Jacob Zuma to apply for legal amnesty in respect of the charges that he faces. Zuma’s legal challenge pales into insignificance when compared with the daunting task he has as ANC […]
Women’s rights? Oh sure … Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge’s dismissal says much about whether women’s rights really are a priority in South Africa. She has a long history as a women’s activist, serving on the parliamentary committee on the status of women and chairing the multiparty Parliamentary Women’s Group and the ANC Parliamentary Women’s Caucus. She has […]
Let’s stop the madness! Can Africa get it right? I ask this question as another African country, Chad, is in turmoil in the same old story of power and greed. It joins Kenya in a long list of countries that are tainting Africa’s image. Hardly a month into the new year and the continent is […]
The Comrades Marathon will go ahead peacefully on Sunday. This is the commitment from Athletics South Africa (ASA) president Leonard Chuene and president of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) Willie Madisha. The two leaders have had discussions around the matter, and they have both agreed that there will be no disruption to the ”ultimate race”.
The revised Film and Publications Bill — adopted by the National Assembly — was unconstitutional and deeply flawed, the South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) said on Friday. The contentious piece of legislation originally sparked an outcry from the media industry, which resulted in a revised version appearing before Parliament on Thursday.
A group of soldiers was in custody in Zimbabwe on charges of plotting to oust President Robert Mugabe and replace him with a Cabinet minister, a newspaper report claimed on Friday. In sensational revelations, the weekly Zimbabwe Independent newspaper said it had obtained court papers containing the allegations.
The Gossip have transformed themselves from a garage rock band into a radical punk outfit, and lead singer Ditto is on a mission to tackle hypocrisy in world politics as well as the gender status quo, writes Lloyd Gedye