Disabled groups are livid over a suggestion by Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi that Member of Parliament Gavin Woods would have long been fired if he were not disabled, media reports said on Monday. ”I am absolutely shocked. I find it quite, quite unbelievable,” said Ari Seirlis, national director of the QuadPara Association of SA.
The Australian rugby team’s already lengthy injury list got longer on Monday. Wallabies hooker Jeremy Paul has been ruled out of Saturday’s Tri-Nations match against South Africa in Perth. And Australia A flyhalf Lachlan MacKay, set to replace another injured player, failed a medical exam.
A plane that crashed into a Greek mountain on Sunday, killing all 121 people on board, including dozens of children, may have been brought down by decompression or lack of oxygen in the cabin, incapacitating the pilots. Two Greek air force F-16 fighter jets were scrambled when the Cypriot plane lost contact with air-traffic controllers in Athens.
Gloom over Sri Lanka’s stagnant peace process intensified on Sunday as hundreds of troops and police manned hurriedly erected checkpoints throughout Colombo in the wake of the assassination of the foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar.
Up there in the vicinity of the Arctic Circle, the various ways of keeping warm keep you busy, I guess. Producing and consuming vodka seems to be a critical part of all of this. The Siberians originally set the pace, with the colonial Russians hard on their heels. You could say that the Siberians refined the rough art of turning potatoes, or whatever else was lying about, into blood-curdling alcohol.
Israel sealed off its Gaza settlements on Sunday night as a deadline passed for residents to leave their homes in a historic move that for the first time will see the razing of Jewish settlements on Palestinian territory. A combined force of about 50 000 troops and police is to be deployed over the coming days, in Israel’s largest military operation outside of a war.
Imvume Management, the company at the centre of the Mail & Guardian’s Oilgate exposés, has focused its counter-attack on the question of the newspaper’s sources. It has asked the Johannesburg High Court to force the paper to disclose where the information came from.
They’re still playing that ridiculous "Arrive Alive" ad on the radio. The one that says something along the lines of "If you run over a pedestrian you WILL be charged with culpable homicide, whether it’s your fault or not!" That’s balderdash, and they know it. Only if it could be proved that you contributed to the "accident" through negligent or reckless driving could you be charged with culpable homicide.
Namibian authorities have called in the help of South African authorities to trace people who are suspected of having conned state companies out of at least R130-Â million of public funds under the guise of being investment managers. A Namibian newspaper reported that the Namibia Financial Institutions Supervisory Authority has asked the Scorpions, for assistance in its search for the Namibian money.
Last month, I briefly traced the evolution of the outcomes-based education (OBE) movement over the past 35 years: from its focus on expanding the conditions of success in schools and classrooms during the 1970s and 1980s, to the strongly learner-centred, future-focused, personally empowering emphasis of the five Cs in todays transformational models. These five domains of human functioning — consciousness, creativity, collaboration, competence and compassion — could (and should) be viewed as the real basics of learning, living and leadership in todays changing world.