Would you eat vegetables and crops that have been irrigated with mine water? At first glance many people may scorn these "mine-veggies", but research is showing that treated mine water yields crops every bit as nutritious as those irrigated by rain water.
<i>theTeacher</i> reviews Oxford University Press’s In Search of Social Sciences series for the intermediate phase. It’s an outstanding resource that will equip young learners with skills and attitudes they will need as they progress through high school and life in a developing South Africa.
Second-year mechanical engineering student Tshianeo Tshivhase has had her share of difficulties, but as a burn survivor, she thumbs her nose at adversity and is not at all fazed by having to chip away at the glass ceiling in a male-dominated field. TheTeacher interviews this courageous student.
William Spader looks at the successful introduction of OBE by drawing on a body of research conducted on successful change in business organizations. He describes the “basics of successful change” – the magic elements that would enable educators to grasp, want and implement what we saw as OBE’s enormous power and potential.
As the death toll from the Marburg epidemic in Angola passed 200, it emerged that cases of the deadly haemorrhagic fever had been present in the country since October last year. The disease was identified only last month. A spokesperson for the United Nations Transitional Coordination Unit in Luanda said the high levels of child mortality common in every rainy season had masked the presence of a new disease.
As the deadly outbreak of Marburg virus continues to claim lives in Angola, researchers have worked out how the closely related Ebola virus invades human cells, according to a report on the Science and Development Network website. The findings could lead to a treatment for the diseases, which each kill up to 90% of those infected.
Malegapuru Makgoba writes that ”a sector of white males have an adaptation problem”. So what? Who cares? Apart from the assorted monkeys themselves, nobody. Maybe baboons are a nuisance if you share quarters with them, but they are not ”a major obstacle to our democratic transformation”. In the greater scheme of things, they don’t matter. Something else does, writes Jo Lorentzen.
British Airways (BA) has severed ties with ailing Kenyan carrier Regional Air which this month was forced to suspend all flights for six days over a cash-flow crisis. Under the 2001 franchise agreement, Regional Air had been using BA’s flag and flight numbers to its destinations in East and Southern Africa which include Khartoum, Asmara, Djibouti, Johannesburg, Lilongwe, Lusaka and Harare.
Harmony has reached an understanding with Solidarity and the United Association of South Africa on retrenchments at its Free State operations, the company said on Monday. The gold mining company did not reach any agreement with the third of the recognised unions.
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