Long-awaited legislation to allow schools cheaper access to the Internet has been approved – more than four years after the Department of Education and the Department of Communications introduced the idea in a policy document.
Teachers and their colleagues across the public service sector are currently "marking" the government’s report card on a vital subject: meeting employee healthcare needs through affordable medical scheme benefits.
The Government is set to kick gas-guzzling cars into touch with widespread reforms aimed at promoting fuel economy and reducing emissions. The new measures are in line with international best practice where fuel economy and emissions labelling on every car is compulsory.
In our letters pages this week, we record a rather different reaction to Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s complaint about South Africa’s white community — different, that is, from the standard howls of outrage and furious protestations that whites are "good citizens".
Print Media South Africa (PMSA) has thrown a lifeline to the cash-strapped South African Advertising Research Foundation (SAARF), agreeing to fund a R2.5 million shortfall.
Suzie Bernardo arrives at the market in the centre of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, at dawn after a long bus ride from a remote slum. There she erects her portable charcoal stove, and sets out tea glasses clouded with fingerprints, and jars of tea, coffee and sugar.
What do South Africa’s ”born frees” – who came into the world after the death of apartheid, or were too young to remember it – know about their country’s traumatic past? Have our children been changed by 12 years of democracy?
The last time Sinnathurai Kandasamy saw his wife, Thiraviyam, was a little more than two weeks ago, when she left home for a hospital check-up in the east coast Sri Lankan town of Trincomalee. Hours later Kandasamy found his wife dead in a mortuary.
The two Boeremag accused escaped under the police’s watch, not that of his department, Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour said on Thursday. ”I want to make it clear that it was not my people who took [the Boeremag trialists] to court,” Balfour said. Herman van Rooyen and Rudi Gouws went missing during the lunch hour recess of the treason trial at the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday.
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