Facts on some mood-altering drugs: All mood-altering drugs, including alcohol, distract the user from outside reality or the reality inside themselves. Being distracted from outside reality means that judgement is impaired, and people who are drunk or high are more prone to dangers like road accidents or making bad decisions. The reality inside people refers […]
Community support is the key to maintaining the life of a library. ”OUR libraries are here to serve the community,” says Melanie Burgin, Children’s Librarian at Parkview public library. A simple statement, but increasingly more difficult to carry out with the severe budget cuts that most libraries have had to deal with. To maintain their […]
Unicef has called on all parties in Sierra Leone to keep promises not to recruit child soldiers THE head of the United Nations Children’s Fund in Sierra Leone said today that the current crisis in the country could result in the renewed recruitment of child soldiers, a practice that most military leaders have repeatedly disavowed […]
A guide to teaching Shakespeare. ALL drama involves conflict. So, a useful way to begin understanding a Shakespeare play is to consider what conflict or conflicts are apparent. Romeo and Juliet fall in love, and in so doing also fall into conflict with the structures of authority represented by their families. What does this suggest […]
Seven years after his death, Malawi’s government has started building a 000 mausoleum for its former president Kamuzu Banda, who led the poor Southern African country to independence and later proclaimed himself ”president for life”.
Hundreds of angry fans protested on Thursday night against the takeover of Manchester United soccer club by United States tycoon Malcolm Glazer. Chanting outside the soccer stadium in Manchester, in northern England, supporters carried banners declaring the club ”Not for Sale” and burned effigies of the US billionaire.
It’s hardly surprising that Democratic Republic of Congo, President Joseph Kabila and his Minister of Defence, Adolphe Onusumba, dashed to Katanga last weekend when a secessionist storm appeared to be breaking over the province. Kabila’s sudden trip to the provincial capital of Lubumbashi has delayed a visit to the country’s capital, Kinshasa, by President Thabo Mbeki.
The disused school sheltering some 200 refugees who fled across the border from Togo to Ghana has no doors, windows or even latrines, and some people are complaining about snakes and mosquitoes at night. ”What’s the point of playing doctor after a death? Prevention is better than healing. That is my message to the United Nations,” said one of the elders.
Aids education activity ideas – It is my right to get the information I need – It is my right to say NO – It is my right to protect myself from unwanted touch – It is my right to believe what I choose to believe – It is my right to change my mind […]
SHEILA DREW reviews Begin at Home by Sonia Gouws and Mari Latti (Maskew Miller Longman, R 99,95) IT is refreshing, to see something written for those children who seem to get the least attention in Curriculum 2005, the under-sevens. The Begin at Home pack aims to help parents prepare pre-school children for formal school. The […]