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/ 13 May 2005

Schooling disrupted at four schools

TEACHING at four Northern Province high schools was disrupted and one principal abducted in separate incidents of violence on Wednesday. School children protested at three schools in the Lowveld area and at one in the Central area. In the Lowveld, pupils at Magulasaba High School near Giyani allegedly held their principal hostage for five hours […]

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/ 13 May 2005

Parents, don’t bail out criminal kids – MEC

PARENTS should not pay bail for their criminal offspring, said Mpumalanga’s safety and security MEC, Steve Mabona, on Sunday. Speaking at a prayer meeting called to address rising crime in townships near Nelspruit, he said parents who bailed out their children merely encouraged crime. “Parents and relatives who pay bail for criminals are encouraging those […]

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/ 13 May 2005

Teachers urged pupils to bunk school for the PAC

TWO teachers who allegedly incited pupils to bunk school and join a community protest march last month have been given two weeks to motivate why their suspension should be lifted. There was no schooling at three schools in the Bushbuckridge area in Northern Province when pupils supported community protests against the Bushbuckridge local council between […]

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/ 13 May 2005

Zim teachers flee rural violence

AT least 250 schools across Zimbabwe have closed down in recent weeks in the wake of a campaign of political intimidation against teachers. Bidi Munyaradze, director of the rights organisation, ZimRights said on Monday that teachers were perceived as supporters of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), the main contenders against ZANU-PF in the […]

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/ 13 May 2005

Police called to monitor school during exams

ARMED police were called to guard a high school in Northern Province at the start of the mid-year exams on Monday. Police were asked to patrol Nkgonyeletse High School at Ga-Mashabela village near Jane Furse where pupils ran riot last week forcing the school to close down. An urgent meeting involving parents, teachers, pupils, education […]

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/ 13 May 2005

School stabbing not racially motivated – police

POLICE on Monday dismissed reports that the stabbing incident at a Witbank school where a coloured pupil allegedly injured a white colleague was racially motivated, African Eye News Service reports. Shaun Craig McDonald, 18, a Grade 11 pupil at Hoerskool Reynopark in Witbank allegedly stabbed Hendrik Trichardt during a schoolyard brawl on Tuesday afternoon. Witbank […]

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/ 13 May 2005

Ethiopia’s path of oppression

It wasn’t the remembrance of Ethiopian rebel leader Jettane Ali, that darkened the mood around his grave at Marsabit. The 36 Ethiopian refugees from the disputed territory of Oromia in southern Ethiopia who gathered in the oasis in northern Kenya to pay their respects ahead of this Sunday’s parliamentary poll were convinced that the election would yield victory for Ethiopia’s ruling party.

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/ 13 May 2005

The struggle just to get there

Adult learners face the debilitating problem of transporting themselves to and from their centre of learning. AT 13, Reginah was bringing up two sisters and four brothers. She yearned to become a nursery school teacher, but never had the opportunity. As soon as she was old enough, she became an apprentice invisible mender. Later she […]