A PROTEST march paid off for children at Mayibuye High School in Mpumalanga when the education department gave them what they wanted – chairs. The pupils marched about 12km to the Sikhulile circuit offices in Kanyamazane near Nelspruit last Thursday and demanded 405 chairs. On Monday, 217 chairs were delivered to the school in Daantjie […]
POLICE on Monday dismissed reports that the stabbing incident at a Witbank school where a coloured pupil allegedly injured a white colleague was racially motivated, African Eye News Service reports. Shaun Craig McDonald, 18, a Grade 11 pupil at Hoerskool Reynopark in Witbank allegedly stabbed Hendrik Trichardt during a schoolyard brawl on Tuesday afternoon. Witbank […]
TWO Mpumalanga schoolteachers got a nasty surprise on Thursday when education MEC Craig Padayachee dropped in unexpectedly and announced he would charge them with misconduct. The two teachers, a man and a woman, teach at two of four schools Padayachee visited in Barberton on Thursday. When he visited KaMhola High School and Barberton Combined School, […]
It wasn’t the remembrance of Ethiopian rebel leader Jettane Ali, that darkened the mood around his grave at Marsabit. The 36 Ethiopian refugees from the disputed territory of Oromia in southern Ethiopia who gathered in the oasis in northern Kenya to pay their respects ahead of this Sunday’s parliamentary poll were convinced that the election would yield victory for Ethiopia’s ruling party.
Adult learners face the debilitating problem of transporting themselves to and from their centre of learning. AT 13, Reginah was bringing up two sisters and four brothers. She yearned to become a nursery school teacher, but never had the opportunity. As soon as she was old enough, she became an apprentice invisible mender. Later she […]
The gates remain locked at Vukuzenzele Combined School, after parents and pupils chased away 22 of the 27 teachers last month. A SCHOOL dispute has stopped pupils at an Mpumalanga village getting lessons for nearly three weeks, and there is no sign that it is ending. On Friday the gates at Vukuzenzele Combined School, at […]
A schoolboy tricked his sister into letting him into her hostel room before raping her roommate. THE brother of a Northern Province schoolgirl raped her roommate in front of her, after tricking them both into letting him into their bedroom before dawn on Wednesday, African Eye News Service reports. Police spokeswoman Inspector Mosima Serite said […]
Twenty-five Northern Province schools are set to start teaching Ndebele, but there aren’t any textbooks. TWENTY-FIVE schools are ready to teach Ndebele as a home language for the first time in the Northern Province, but there are no textbooks, African Eye News Service reports. The language has been introduced for pre-school and grade one pupils […]
On a hot Sunday afternoon in a suburb of the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, two unlikely football teams run out on to a dusty pitch. As in Sunday soccer everywhere, the players are mostly middle-aged, pot-bellied and, to be honest, pretty useless. But an enthusiastic crowd that can number more than 2 000 cheers them on each week.
As the final round of consultations to choose a new director-general for the World Trade Organisation (WTO) wrapped up Thursday, former European Union Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy appeared to be leading in the race to head the body.
He was also reported to be the front runner in earlier discussions on which applicant for the post is most likely to be approved by the organisation’s 148 member states.