For 16 years, Themba was proud to be a teacher in South Africa, but a wave of violence at her school has proven so nerve-racking that she may leave the profession.”I feel like a security guard, not a teacher,” said Themba, who requested anonymity. ”Some mornings I don’t bother getting out of bed. Students are out of control and parents do not care.”
The fifth world summit on media and children has highlighted the need for government and the industry to better protect the rights of children in the media without limiting the opportunities for education and access to information the media can provide for them
Hit squads have been formed to target opposition politicians branded “undesirables” by the state, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change said this week. “It reminds of [Nicolai] Ceaucescu,” said opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, referring to the former president of Romania.
Between the N2 highway and the government’s flagship Gateway housing project, a double-storey shack stands all by itself. Last year Nosandiso Dyonase, who runs a shop from this house, stared down building contractors, government officials, policemen and even bulldozers when they cleared the land around her of shacks and families. A defiant Dyonase and her goats were the only ones left standing.
The Southern African Development Community is placing unprecedented pressure on President Robert Mugabe to quit office and pave the way for peace and stability at home and within the region. Mugabe is now facing a war on two fronts: with SADC heads of state at the regional level and a divided ruling Zanu-PF party at home. All are pondering the political implications of his continued stay in office.
Babies of HIV-positive mothers are twice as likely to become infected by the virus if they are given formula milk in addition to breast milk, and the risk rises eleven-fold if they are given solid foods, South African researchers have found. Exactly why mixing breastfeeding with other foods increases the risk of HIV infection is still unknown.
The leader of the Cape Town-based African Muslim Party, city councillor Badih Jamil Chaaban, has launched a R300 000 defamation claim against City of Cape Town executive mayor Helen Zille. Although the trial date has yet to be fixed, Chaaban’s lawyer, Brian Lutzno, on Monday confirmed that the summons had already been served on Zille.
More than 4 000 unexploded weapons collected after the Malhazine armoury blasts will be destroyed at Moamba in Mozambique on Monday, Vista News reported. In its online Monday edition the daily Noticias said that more than 4 000 unexploded arms, which were collected from townships near the armoury, would be destroyed.
This column concerns an old theme — can we truly develop a constitutional democracy without any shared normative framework? The question is prompted by the government’s inexplicable failure to respond to the oppression in Zimbabwe in anything other than its usual passively ineffective way, as refined over the past five years.
It requires no gym subscription, no legwarmers and is an activity to which even the most fitness-phobic individual might not be averse. So what is the latest exercise trend that we are being encouraged to embrace for the good of our health? A daily stroll. Lucy Knight, author of Walking for Weight Loss (Kyle Cathie), says that the benefits of walking are countless.