A Montessori school in Midrand, north of Johannesburg, has been accused of operating illegally. The independent school, which offers classes from nursery to junior primary, is also alleged to have problems with hygiene, security and parking. The school denies the allegations, claiming that some parents simply have "an axe to grind".
The sight of an elderly person caring for children with Aids-related illnesses — and grandchildren who may have been orphaned by the pandemic — has become a common one in Namibia, and the Southern African region as a whole. According to the 2004 <i>Common Country Assessment</i>, grandparents provide care for most orphans under the age of 18 who live in rural areas.
The Pentagon is trying to develop "insect cyborgs" able to sniff out explosives, or "bug" conversations, by lurking unseen in enemy hideouts with micro-transmitters strapped to their bodies. Their most immediate task could be spotting and identifying the location of roadside bombs in Iraq.
Rising South African star Jackson Chauke cruised through the quarterfinals of the Commonwealth Games flyweight boxing competition in Melbourne on Wednesday. In the semifinal, he will face super-confident Ugandan Martin Mubiru who declared that he was unbeatable.
I went this morning for a haircut. I find something cathartic about cutting my hair. And how often and how short it gets cut is generally inversely proportional to my overall sense of peace with the world. So the fact that I’d gone almost six months without some drastic shave was impressive in its own right, writes Amanda Atwood.
Samaresh Jung won his fifth shooting title at Melbourne 2006, moving within one gold medal of a Commonwealth Games record shared by Australian swimmers Ian Thorpe and Susie O’Neill. Ahead of Wednesday’s evening programme, Australia led the medal standings with 54 gold medals and 143 overall.
”As I write this, I’m sitting in Centane, a rural town in the Eastern Cape and a world apart from my office in Houghton, Johannesburg. Centane, along with Butterworth and Ngqamakwe, forms part of the Mnquma local municipality — home to about 300 000 people,” writes Gloria Serobe, CEO of Wiphold.
Australian police said on Wednesday that they are increasingly concerned for the safety of two Commonwealth Games competitors who went missing from the athletes’ village. Bangladesh 400m sprinter Tawhidul Mohammad Islam and Tanzanian boxer Omari Idd Kimweri disappeared on Monday and have not been seen since.
The Australian swimming team has taken exception to stinging media criticism of the men’s inability to win an individual gold medal at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games swimming competition. Aussie media have slammed the performance, coming four years after the men won 15 golds at the Manchester Games.
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