News about the London bombings break at the same time J-Lo’s latest tantrum makes world headlines – welcome to the global village, courtesy of 24-hour media networks.
Childhood is a stage of human development full of promise and endless possibilities. The influences that shape the mind and body of the young person have lasting effects. These include the obvious such as factual knowledge and conceptual thinking as taught in schools, as well as the general development of value systems and a sense of morality as shaped by family and society. What, then, is the role of physical activity?
It may not be a sport that will make you a millionaire or take you to the Olympics, but youngsters still enjoy a good game of jukskei.
Charné Nel* speaks about her career in law the same way some people speak about chocolate – she luuuurvs it!
A pioneering language project that has been running for five years is facing closure because of the Gauteng department of education’s (GDE) reluctance to support it.
A mother who was slow to pay school fees ended up with a bill from lawyers that was more than her initial debt.
A leading African academic has warned that the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) is at risk of being overshadowed by the Commission for Africa, an initiative of the British government, and lead the continent into a new kind of colonialism. Professor Dani Nabudere, a prominent political analyst, claims: ”Nepad could become an appendage of the Blair commission.”
The boycott of Israeli universities by the British Association of University Teachers enthusiastically supported by Ronnie Kasrils and Victoria Brittain (”Silence from academe”), was being repealed even as the Mail & Guardian went to press. The AUT reversed its April boycott by a two-thirds majority. Opposition to the boycott rallied around three central arguments, writes Joel Pollak.
Fellow students are never slow to apologise if they bump into Erin Marshall in the corridors. That is the name she is known by to others on her courses in leisure and recreation, sport and drama. But they also know her other name. On the professional wrestling circuit, Marshall fights as Erin Angel.
The Zimbabwe government sourced foreign currency on the black market to fund ”sensitive” projects to do with ”national security” even as it clamped down on the private sector for doing so. President Robert Mugabe’s presidential trips abroad, the procurement of indelible ink from Switzerland prior to the disputed 2002 presidential poll and cash-strapped parastatals benefited from this practice.