Old Mutual, South Africa’s largest financial services group, on Tuesday announced a black economic empowerment transaction which will see 12,75% of its South African businesses placed in black hands. The total value of all the shares to be issued under this proposal is R7,2-billion, R7,1-billion of which will go to black shareholders.
Listed supermarket group Pick ‘n Pay has reported a 20,6% increase in its headline earnings per share for the year to end-February 2005, to 141,54 cents from
117,38 cents the previous year. The group declared a final dividend of 76,70 cents per share, up 20,8% from the 63,50 cents per share declared a year earlier, for a total dividend for the year of 96,5 cents.
Duke Ngcukana has been a maths and physical science teacher for 30 years. How did you get into teaching? I tutored learners who had problems with maths and science while I was still at university. Any challenges in teaching? The pressure is on the educators to teach and little pressure is put on the students […]
Shunbagavellie Chetty has taught accounting and economics for 22 years. How did you get into teaching? My spouse was an educator and we spent a lot of time in the company of his colleagues. The job satisfaction they seemed to enjoy attracted me. My elder brother and sister are also in the profession. Highlights of […]
Andrew Putter has spent a decade teaching design and art. How did you get into teaching? I hated school – being treated like a clone, being force-fed ‘knowledge”. I wanted to help change that, and provide some children with the affirmation and space that they need to grow. Our art teacher in high school was […]
Motshidisi Tsuke wakes up every morning to teach the tired and hungry-looking children at a farm school on the security-tight farm of Barnsvlei in the Free State. After travelling 60km to school, Tsuke has to wait with the learners for the farmer to open the main gate ‘at his convenience” to gain access to the […]
The snow-white double-storey buildings had to be some fancy office block – surely no one would allow children to use buildings of such architectural splendour for schooling. This was the first impression that Sibonelo Mvelase had of Pridwin Preparatory Boys School in upmarket Melrose Estate, Johannesburg, when he visited there in June. He was one […]
Forty-six UK teachers will arrive in Johannesburg on Monday 21 July to begin a five week placement in rural schools in the Northern Cape and Eastern Cape. The teachers have been recruited by Link Community Development – an NGO which specialises in school and district improvement and works in partnership with the Department of Education. […]
Kwenxurha High School in Mooiplaas, 40kms east of East London, is an ugly hodgepodge of brick buildings and wooden shacks. You could say it’s a typical rural school – except that this one hasn’t given up just yet. We’re here to help them set up a media club. This is an account of our visit […]
“Teaching as a profession in South Africa is fading. It is a worrying factor. Where do we go wrong? Without education no country will survive!” These were the concluding remarks made by Eastern Cape education MEC Nomsa Jajula at a public function in May. But a look at the atrocious conditions and fraught education systems […]