The Novalis Ubutu African Drum ‘n Dance programme celebrates African culture and heritage and the therapeutic power of music and movement. A group of learners from seven Western Cape schools enjoy moving through a sequence of traditional drum rhythms and African voice and dance.
President Robert Mugabe’s refusal to sign into law the controversial NGO Bill and his pledge to compensate farmers for assets and improvements to seized land are the result of international pressure, say observers. They add that he is pandering to his rural constituency, whose votes handed Zanu-PF a two-thirds majority in the March 31 parliamentary elections.
The violence that once tore KwaZulu-Natal apart continues to haunt the survivors. But an alternative therapy seems to be putting those ghosts to rest, helping people heal their psychological and emotional wounds. TheTeacher investigates this new therapy, called The Journey, which is being piloted at six schools.
The Emerging Voices report provides a mixed picture of “experience of the classroom”. Curriculum 2005 was introduced in 1997 to remove the “bias, discrimination and social injustice” that underpinned apartheid’s Christian National Education and Bantu Education. However schools are still struggling with the new curriculum methodology – OBE.
With the nation’s unemployment rates hovering around the 40% mark, learning
institutions have their work cut out for them to give their learners a shot at becoming active in the economy. <i>TheTeacher </i>visits an independent school intent on nurturing confident learners.
A breakthrough in resolving Western Cape taxi violence — in which two more commuters were wounded on Thursday — has been achieved, the provincial transport department confirmed. Provincial transport minister Mcebisi Skwatsha will address a media briefing with the leaders of the warring taxi groups on Friday.
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At least 40 people have died and more than 430 taken ill with highly infectious meningococcal meningitis in Ethiopia over the past five months, the country’s health ministry said on Wednesday. An official with the World Health Organisation said vaccines have been distributed to the ”infected regions”.
South Africa’s foreign exchange and gold reserves should be enough to cover at least six months’ imports if higher growth is to be sustained, organised business said on Wednesday. Nedlac’s business convener, Raymond Parsons, was speaking at the launch of the World Bank’s 2005 Global Development Report in Midrand.
Protesting nurses in the North West province will not stop their campaign for uniform allowances until they see concrete proof that it will be increased, union officials said on Wednesday. Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said ”processes are under way to significantly raise the current uniform allowance”.