Musicals are where it’s at, at the moment, and for the staging of these musicals certain key principles might have to apply, writes Mike van Graan.
Art imitated art this week when an unknown painter tried to sell a copy of one of Irma Stern’s most famous works from the foyer of a Johannesburg art cinema complex.The copy of the 1943 oil <i>Watussi Queen</i>, of a regal African tribeswoman, has been on sale at Rosebank’s Cinema Nouveau for R4 200.
There has been ”a lot of unfairness” emanating from the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial, Deputy President Jacob Zuma told South African Broadcasting Corporation television news in an interview on Thursday. Zuma said as ”an activist, freedom fighter and politician” such ”things” were to be expected as politics was ”not an easy matter”.
United States President George Bush on Thursday suffered a significant rebuff over his choice of John Bolton, an outspoken hawk, as the US’s envoy to the United Nations, when a Republican senator broke ranks and opposed the nomination. George Voinovich said the appointment of a gruff unilateralist would do nothing to improve America’s battered image abroad.
A top Scorpions official, Jeffrey Ledwaba, one of three czars heading the elite police unit, is being investigated in connection with allegations of the plundering of hundreds of thousands of rands from the informers fund. Ledwaba was put on "special leave" last week on the instruction of the National Director of Public Prosecutions, Vusi Pikoli.
THE South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) and the European Union (EU) recently launched the EU’s R88-million contribution to SAQA for the development of South Africa’s education system and the review of the National Qualifications Framework (NQF). The high-profile occasion was attended by Minister of Education Kader Asmal and was held at Alexandra Technical College. Asmal […]
Curriculum transformation presents major challenges ahead, writes MICHAEL KAHN OUTCOMES-based education (OBE) is the most far-ranging change to education that this country has ever seen. We are not the first nation to change its education system, but our change is more complex than usual. In education, new departments were formed, new examinations set, colleges rationalised […]
Education development centres could be the key to much-needed teacher support THE need for a rethink on the ways in which support for qualified teachers is offered and made available is acute. The first instance of this need is provided by figures quoted in the 1999 Education for All 2000 Assessment: South Africa Report. Examples […]
A NORTHERN Province primary school teacher appeared in court on Tuesday after he allegedly shot a man in a bar early Sunday morning. Masekela Vincent Malesa, 33, of Namakgale township near Tzaneen was not asked to plead on an attempted murder charge in the Namakgale District Court. He was granted R3 000 bail, which he […]
MPUMALANGA MEC for education Craig Padayachee paid a surprise visit to four schools in Nelspruit and nearby Kanyamazane on Thursday to ensure that principals are doing they job properly. The MEC visited the schools to check on claims that principals were letting teachers drink during school hours, that there was a lack of discipline and […]