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/ 11 October 2005
Out with the term "educator" and bring back "teacher". This is one of 40 recommendations contained in report entitled <i>A National Framework for Teacher Education in South Africa</i>. The report was produced by the ministerial committee on teacher education, initially set up in February 2003 to look at how current policies could be drawn into a unified system for teacher development.
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/ 11 October 2005
World Teachers’ Day is usually an opportunity for great cheers of admiration for the many thousands who strive to do right by the 12-million or so youngsters in our schooling system. To those of you who do honour your professional duties, I add my voice of appreciation.
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/ 11 October 2005
Teachers around the world share their experiences in celebration World Teacher’s Day on October 5.
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/ 11 October 2005
"I love teaching and I do not think I can swap it for any profession, however well it pays," says Mavis Shongwe. After a career in teaching spanning 30 years, she is currently deputy principal at Emmangweni Primary School in Tembisa in Gauteng, where she has been teaching since 1979.
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/ 11 October 2005
The tribute to Brett Kebble by Khanyo Gqulu last week ("Our north, our south, our east and west") would have been the most delicious piece of satire had it not been offered in such apparently deadly earnest. It — along with the rest of the sickly tributes to Kebble over the past 10 days — illustrates at least two things about the new South Africa.
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/ 11 October 2005
South Africa is the only African country in which same-sex rights are constitutionally protected. Even so, homosexuals continue to be subjected to treatment that is sometimes nothing less than brutal. Lesbians, for example, are still raped by men who want to "teach them a lesson" and convert them into "real", heterosexual women.
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/ 11 October 2005
The spread of the internet has opened Uganda to a vast array of trends and influences that would have had little effect in previous years. However, a good many citizens who have peered into this brave new world are not sure they like what they see — especially the two pornography sites featuring Ugandans that took the country by surprise recently.
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/ 11 October 2005
Aid began to flood into Pakistan on Monday as the death toll from the weekend’s earthquake continued to spiral and anger over the slow pace of the recovery effort boiled over in remote parts of Kashmir, which have been without supplies for days. In Pakistan, officials said the death toll would reach 40 000 by the end of the week.
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/ 11 October 2005
The succession battle in Zanu-PF enters a new phase as power blocs in the ruling party in Zimbabwe jockey for influence on the newly created Senate. President Robert Mugabe ensured his central committee sanction an early poll last Friday, a move seen as an acknowledgement by the 81-year-old leader that he needs to limit dissent.
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/ 11 October 2005
Dr Chika Onyeani spells out what he thinks is ”wrong with black people” in his book Capitalist Nigger. A Nigerian who has lived in the United States for the past 40 years, Onyeani speaks to the Mail & Guardian about his belief that blacks in Africa should embrace capitalism in order to get ahead.