At least 361 new species, including what is thought to be the world’s largest cockroach and 30 freshwater fish, have been discovered in Borneo in the last decade and thousands more are probably waiting to be identified, according to a report published on Monday by the WWF. But many of these are under threat from illegal logging, the study warns.
Sheree Russouw finds that the youth still delight in the works of Shakespeare If Shakespeare did indeed indulge in dagga, as experts recently suggested, then perhaps that could explain why a beautiful fairy queen falls in love with a hairy donkey in Shakespeare’s hilarious play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The play is currently entrancing schoolchildren, […]
Tempers are rising in some education sectors over recent decisions which are being made without proper consultation, reports Julia Grey The Department of Education (DoE) has been accused of bypassing consultative processes and simply delivering final decisions to stakeholders. Both the South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) and the National Professional Teacher’s Organisation of South […]
Children or adults going on the rampage firing bullets at learners in the United States has been commonplace over the past few years. Shootings involving pupils in the United Kingdom has repeatedly made headlines or the news on television and radio, among the most tragic being the massacre at Dunblane in Scotland when scores were […]
A major national education conference held by the country’s largest teachers’ union identified the same old problems. But actions being planned promise to make it more than just a talkshop, writes Julia Grey Government and union leaders, academics, and educators from around the country gathered in their hundreds at the recent South African Democratic Teachers […]
Primarashni Pillay describes the Wits by Appointment initiative Are your grade 11 and 12 learners still uncertain about their career paths and the institution they want to study at after matric? Wits University is hosting three career orientation days in the next few weeks. Instead of having the usual Open Day, the university has again […]
Libby Young explores ecology on the internet The internet can do more for the environment that just save paper by providing an alternative electronic medium. In fact it has become a platform for those working to change the way we treat the world we live in. Not only can you find regular news updates on […]
Step One answers questions about why schools have governing bodies, what they are for and what they should do. Why do we have school governing bodies (SGBs)? The values of the Constitution apply to the way we run our schools. All parents, educators and learners have rights and responsibilities. The Schools Act has made it […]
The UN Children’s Fund and the World Health Organisation have appealed to development partners to increase their efforts to prevent and fight malaria, the main child killer in Mozambique. Malaria accounts for around 35% of all deaths among children under five, a major contributing factor to Mozambique having one of the highest child mortality rates in the world.
South Africa has made advances in buttressing democracy since the end of apartheid in 1994 and the nation’s second black President, Thabo Mbeki, is the ”pre-eminent political figure” in the process, said the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa) on Monday.