Someone once said: “Those who can, do and those who can’t, teach.” I suppose that might depict the majority of us currently in the profession as no-hopers and failures. However, this is hardly the case as the demands on a teacher today are simply enormous and stressful.
The authorities at Guantánamo were accused on Monday of blocking inmates’ access to mental health care, despite dozens of suicide attempts and hundreds of cases of self-harm. As further details emerged of three suicides, George Bush’s administration faced renewed criticism of the camp’s conditions and its policy of indefinite detention.
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Jan Koller scored early, and Tomas Rosicky added two more goals on Monday to lead the Czech Republic to a 3-0 win over the United States in Group E of the World Cup. ”They punished us for every mistake we made,” US coach Bruce Arena said.
A Pietermaritzburg man who is now dead offered R10 000 for the life of a police officer who bore a grudge against him, the high court in the KwaZulu-Natal capital heard on Monday. The allegation appeared during the first day of the trial of Nkosinathi Mbhele (27), who has pleaded not guilty to murdering Inspector Noel Landsberg.
Veteran politician Chakufwa Chihana, who rallied opposition to the iron-fist dictatorship of the late Hastings Kamuzu Banda, died in South Africa early on Monday after an unsuccessful attempt to remove a brain tumour, the government and relatives said. He was 67. He died at about 8am at Johannesburg’s Garden City clinic.
Veteran politician Chakufwa Chihana, who rallied opposition to the iron-fist dictatorship of the late Hastings Kamuzu Banda, died in South Africa early on Monday after an unsuccessful attempt to remove a brain tumour, the government and relatives said. He was 67. He died at about 8am at Johannesburg’s Garden City clinic.
Guinean police and military fired tear gas to disperse angry high-school students on Monday who tried to stage street protests after they failed to sit final exams due to a teachers’ strike. In the capital, police and soldiers fired tear gas to keep away several thousands of students who tried to march on President Lansana Conte’s palace.
Islamic militiamen who just seized Somalia’s capital moved on another town on Monday in at least 50 vehicles mounted with machine guns, apparently intent on a new battle with their secular rivals. If militiamen capture Jowhar and consolidate power in Mogadishu, they will control nearly all the major towns in southern Somalia.
The South African National Defence Force rejected claims on Monday that it is excluding whites from promotion — but steps have to be taken ”from time to time to try to correct an abnormality”, defence ministry spokesperson Sam Mkhwanazi said. ”It is an exercise … that aims to meet representivity imperatives,” he said.