Richard Maponya’s face glows when he talks about his latest project, a new mall he says is the first one-stop shopping facility in Soweto. "This excites me more than anything else I have done. It will be an achievement of a dream and it will create so many job opportunities." If you didn’t know that the Maponya name is synonymous with black business, you might think that the mall is his first venture.
Voices of opposition are mounting to some of the changes to education laws proposed by the Department of Education (DoE). The Education Laws Amendment Bill, which was presented to Parliament’s education portfolio committee earlier this month, seeks to amend certain aspects of the South African Schools Act (Sasa) and the Employment of Educators Act.
When European settlers landed in South Africa, they hardly saw the locals as cutting-edge scientists and health practitioners. In fact the indigenous people harboured a treasure trove of remedies for all kinds of diseases, knowledge of how to farm effectively and principles of good nutrition.
The George W Bush administration may like to see Iran face sanctions for its nuclear aspirations, but the political mood at the United Nations suggests that such punishment is not what the world community is ready for. ”We don’t think it will be helpful to bring the issue to the Security Council,” the Chinese ambassador to the UN, Wang Guangya, told reporters recently.
Women’s month is a good time for us guys to strike back at that part of the women’s movement that says it is acceptable for women to slap men who have made them sufficiently angry. For a society striving for less violence, it is amazing how blasé we are about women smacking men who arrive late, cheat on them or generally behave like assholes.
Three high-level South African creatives, all of whom have returned from overseas agencies, are set to launch a new creative shop in Cape Town. Noel Cottrell, Andrew Whitehouse and Justin Gomes have teamed up to form FoxP2, an agency that aims to rival Net#work BBDO.
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The situation in Frankfort calmed down on Tuesday after more residents were arrested for public violence, eastern Free State police said. Police spokesperson Superintendent Motarafi Ntepe said 64 people have been arrested since violence broke out on Sunday in Namahadi township over alleged poor service delivery.
The leadership ills of South African rugby are a product of the weakness of the sport’s organisation at provincial level, Minister of Sport and Recreation Makhenkesi Stofile said on Tuesday. ”I have never seen such weak provinces [and] provincial leaders as we have today. I don’t know what’s going on,” he said.
A Capetonian hopes to become the world’s fastest blind driver by setting a land-speed record next month. Accompanied by a navigator, Hein Wagner is to attempt the feat at a Mafikeng airstrip on September 8 — hoping to make his way into the Guinness World Records book.