YOUR GUIDE TO INVESTING IN EDUCATION Specialist computer company Workgroup recently donated software valued at R2,5-million to government as part of its social responsibility programme. Workgroup’s managing director Vaughn Parkin made the donation to the Departments of Education and Social Development and to nine Gauteng charities. ”Computer literacy is a vital skill in today’s modern […]
YOUR GUIDE TO INVESTING IN EDUCATION Arnold Schwarzenegger, patron of the Special Olympics, visited South Africa to promote the event Diamond smiles: Sizile Mabaso, manager of the Anglo American Chairman’s Fund with Arnold Schwarzenegger at Takalani Home built, with a R7,6-million grant from the Anglo American and De Beers Chairman’s Fund. From Soweto to Sarajevo, […]
YOUR GUIDE TO INVESTING IN EDUCATION It was not a case of pulp fiction but rather manna from heaven when paper producer Sappi made a generous donation which helped to restore the derelict Inanda Seminary. Sappi pumped R2-million for refurbishment of the seminary, established by the American Board Mission in 1869 as a ”Christian boarding […]
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Media organisations have slammed threats by the government to clamp down on journalists, saying stricter laws would cause a local and international backlash. Tusi Fokane, director of the South African branch of the Media Institute of Southern Africa, said it would be very difficult to pass strict media laws in South Africa.
The death toll from more than a week of devastating floods in south-eastern Ethiopia has risen to at least 154 with nearly 260 000 people left homeless, officials said on Wednesday. The raging waters have taken a huge toll on livestock and agriculture in the remote, impoverished region, they said.
A court has convicted 13 people and given them sentences ranging from the death penalty to two years’ imprisonment for their role in the killing of a senior World Health Organisation (WHO) official in Burundi. Defence lawyers have not indicated whether they will appeal the verdict.
A forensic accountant has testified that Michael Jackson owed -million more than he had in assets about the time a damaging documentary was aired, bolstering prosecutors’ claims that financial distress led the superstar to panic. The accountant testified on Tuesday that he traced Jackson’s finances from 1999 to 2004.
A British five-year-old boy got a nasty surprise when a 60cm snake slithered out of his breakfast-cereal box, his mother said on Wednesday. Jordan Willett, from Dawley, Shropshire, in England’s West Midlands, discovered the non-venomous reptile in his box of Golden Puffs on Monday.
An elderly man who mistook firefighters for burglars as they arrived to douse a small blaze at his apartment complex threatened to shoot them with a gas-powered pistol, police said on Wednesday. Authorities confiscated the pistol and two other loaded gas weapons after Tuesday’s incident in St. Poelten, about 80km west of Vienna.