Obituary: Head of the Northern Cape Department of Education, Kevin Nkoane, was killed in a car crash last month TEACHERS, education officials, politicians and civil servants in the Northern Cape were shocked last month by the untimely death of the head of the provincial Department of Education, Kevin Nkoane, in a car crash. More than […]
Khoisan languages will soon be taught in schools in the Northern Cape THE Northern Cape is set to introduce the teaching of Khoisan languages into the school curriculum, in a move that will counter decades of subjugation of these indigenous tongues. MEC Tina Joemat-Pettersson announced in this year’s budget speech to the provincial parliament that […]
A new educational trust is giving street kids a good education. SIPHO Mathebula’s earliest memories are of being beaten by his stepfather every day with a sjambok, of running away from home every chance he got, and of stealing money from his mother. By the time he was six or so, he was living on […]
Library week focuses attention on making librarians more proactive ”MUSIC is my downfall,” says Elizabeth Watson, shaking her head. She allows herself a smile. ”Would you believe that I had to delay my flight because of the Soweto String Quartet? All I can tell you is that it was totally worth it.” Currently preparing a […]
A new project has been launched to help teachers tackle issues of diversity in the classroom in a constructive way. RESPECTING and celebrating the differences between people are goals most South Africans (hopefully) aspire towards. Most of us know, however, that the legacy of so many years of apartheid makes these aims more difficult than […]
Mashile Phalane is a simple, determined man from Tzaneen with a loud voice. He only realised how loud when the government threatened anti-panic legislation to stop people like him from terrifying the public. Phalane is a key figure in Earthlife Africa’s anti-nuclear efforts. He calls himself a ”great challenger”.
The number of independent schools is on the increase. SEVEN percent of South Africa’s schools are private, catering for less than 5% of the nation’s schoolgoers. They claim, however, to be making a national educational contribution out of proportion to the sector’s size. The number of independent schools registered with the Department of Education quadrupled […]
Resilient rebels. Rebounding drug crops. Rogue American soldiers snared in plots to smuggle cocaine and funnel stolen ammunition toparamilitary death squads. The bad news has been piling up fast, almost five years after the United States began doling out -billion under its Plan Colombia aid programme to wipe out cocaine and heroin production and crush a long-running leftist insurgency.
Children in Volkstaat Orania learn with all the benefits of technology AN exclusively whites-only settlement hidden in the expanses of the rural Northern Cape, where the next generation of Afrikaners homesick for apartheid are educated under the fluttering Vierkleur flag and with the latest in computer technology? Surely nothing but a way-out fantasy — right? […]
Many students in the Eastern Cape began 2000 with no textbooks Four to one: Headmaster of Benjamin Mahlasela High school Siphiwo Baninzi (left) says four pupils crowd around one textbook. photo: gerald meintjies WONGELETHU Senior Secondary in Mdantsane was one of the lucky schools which received textbooks by January 18, helping to alleviate shortages of […]