A United States marine who caused an international furore when he was filmed shooting dead a wounded and unarmed Iraqi will not face a court martial after the military authorities determined he had not broken any rules, it emerged on Thursday.
Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Labour Party on Friday won an absolute majority of parliamentary seats in Britain’s general election, passing the necessary 324-seat mark for the 646-member House of Commons. The result means Blair has won a historic third consecutive term in office for his party, although the final majority is expected to be well down on that achieved in the last election in 2001.
Inkatha Freedom Party Youth Brigade leader Thulasizwe Buthelezi has launched a stinging attack on the party’s national chairperson, Ziba Jiyane, for "using the youth with the covert aim" of ousting IFP president Mangosuthu Buthelezi. The youth leader told the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> this week that "there is a battle for the soul of the IFP raging in party ranks".
About 250 land claimants in Gauteng and North West have failed to collect more than R3-million awarded to them in terms of South Africa’s Land Restitution Act. Payment has been approved by the Gauteng and North West Land Claims Commission, but the claimants disappeared during the six weeks between the finalisation of their claims and the signing of the final settlement papers.
Thabo Mbeki visits a community crossing the digital divide, writes Mbuyisi Mgibisa Ten years ago, Tsilithwa locality was one of the least desirable addresses in the Transkei. It had been stricken by poverty, unemployment and disease. Adult illiteracy was widespread and the drop-out rate of learners from school high. Today, it is an attractive, stable […]
Teachers have a social and moral obligation to reclaim their profession and restore its dignity, according to Professor Jakes Gerwel, former academic and chairman of the Human Sciences Research Council Jakes Gerwel said that teachers need to reclaim their professional dignity in an address at a national teacher education conference in Midrand last month, pointing […]
The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) forum launched in February this year by Minister of Education Kader Asmal continues to gain momentum, with a further conference due to be held later this month. President Thabo Mbeki underlined the importance of making a meaningful ICT intervention: “We must succeed within our own borders to bridge the […]
Malawi’s minister of education vows to deal with fraud and corruption in his department, reports Denis Mzembe Malawi’s beleaguered Ministry of Education, reeling from a R20,7-million school contracts scam, poor examination results and strikes by disgruntled teachers, has been hit by another multimillion scandal. Government auditors have uncovered a R13-million scandal over the supply of […]
Raymond Moodley, business development manager at Microsoft Press, discusses the impact of e-learning on the local market E-learning is a term that has been widely used for some time, but it is very much in its embryonic stages in terms of wide-scale adoption. Information and knowledge provided on-tap in a digestible format are needed, and […]
Educators due to teach in the new reception-year classes have been promised a pittance by the department. Julia Grey reports Picture this: an educator at a public primary school gets down to the business of teaching grade ones, while in the classroom next door, the grade R teacher guides the five- and six-year-olds through their […]