Patrick Commercial College in Gauteng, also known as Patcom College, is marketing programmes for which it is not registered. Currently the college is registered with the Department of Education’s directorate of private higher education institutions (PHEIs) to offer only information technology at certificate and diploma levels. However, a brochure from the college’s Benoni branch is […]
Positioning Further Education and Training (FET) colleges to play a meaningful role in preparing students for a changed economic landscape continues to be a key challenge for the country. For the Central Johannesburg College (CJC), the first objective has been to create a unified identity among their four campuses in Parktown, Doornfontein, Alexandra and Riverlea. […]
Yolisa Mathe has taught maths and physical science for 17 years. How did you get into teaching? My teacher mother motivated me and there was also a need for science teachers. Teaching highlights? Highlights include influencing a curriculum change in the school and being promoted to head of department within two years of teaching. It […]
At the Grahamstown festival in the Eastern Cape in July, an audience gathered in the pale late afternoon winter sunlight to watch a piece of street theatre. The self-confident young performers enacted a familiar story: some VIPS had promised change to the impoverished community of Rhini township. But life for its 90 000 residents remains […]
Mark Scott-Crossley masterminded the killing of farm-worker Nelson Chisale who was thrown to lions in January 2004 after being viciously assaulted, the Phalaborwa Circuit Court heard on Tuesday in closing argument by the state. His co-accused, however, was equally guilty of the murder because they acted with common purpose.
A Durban man plans to walk around the country on stilts for almost 5 000km to raise crime awareness and fund victim care centres. Said Charles de Vos on Tuesday: ”You may think this is the craziest thing you have ever heard of, but if you are serious about fighting crime in a unique way, nothing is crazy.”
Three years of renovation have transformed the Japanese Prime Minister’s residence from a crumbling, vermin-invested pile into a state-of-the-art ecological home. The building, built in 1929, is being touted as proof of Japan’s commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. According to officials it is the first home to be powered by clean-energy fuel cells.
This month’s focus on African-language (or vernacular) media came about as the result of a question. With the listenership figures on SABC’s PBS stations Ukhozi FM, Umhlobo Wenene FM and Lesedi FM still outstripping anything else that local radio has to offer (apart, of course, from the SABC’s own commercial station Metro FM), what are the revenue figures looking like?
In a country where bunny-huggers are assumed to be white softies and dumping litter the way of uncaring blacks, a community theatre initiative is doing its bit to get schoolgoers to think again about environmental issues. The Trash Truck project was conceptualised some years ago as a performance-art tool to help school children interpret and […]
Stretching from Cape Point to Khayelitsha, False Bay College’s five campuses reach out to the entire range of Cape Town’s people – from the affluent to the conservative to the impoverished. This Further Education and Training (FET) college was formally established in September 2002 through the merger of the South Peninsula and Westlake colleges – […]