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/ 7 December 2004
It’s a fact that while many teachers are uncertain on how to deal with the subject of HIV/Aids in the classrooms, some learning materials on the subject are a real turn-off. The <i>Red Ribbon</i> series, aimed at foundation- and intermediate-phase learners and their teachers, marks an important breakthrough in the way HIV/Aids awareness can be approached in the classroom.
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/ 7 December 2004
I was told that the GDE would process and authorise the claims of ABET educators at the end of every month and that payment would be effected as soon as possible after the end of every month. This has not been the case, writes Craig van der Merwe.
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/ 7 December 2004
With holiday fever infecting most of us as the year draws to a close, topics like the best beaches on which to relax and 10 things to do without getting out of bed will undoubtedly be of far more interest to teachers than still more appalling facts about youth and HIV/Aids.
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/ 7 December 2004
Stellenbosch University rector Chris Brink and intellectual Jakes Gerwel have welcomed the debate about the posthumous award of an honorary doctorate to the late Bram Fischer as an illustration of the "broadness and liveliness of the discussion" in Afrikaans. Unfortunately, not all those who support the award have exhibited the same attitude. What was the Fischer debate really about?
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/ 7 December 2004
Most Africans know what to say about Aids — information campaigns have achieved this much. However, being designed in the capitals by Western-educated health experts and NGO staff, and funded by Western donors, these campaigns ignore traditional explanations of illness, prevention, healing and death embedded in the cultural matrix of many Africans.
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/ 7 December 2004
Spanish giants Real Madrid need a win from their final group B match against Roma in Rome on Wednesday to be certain of reaching the last 16 of the Champions League for the eighth consecutive season. The group couldn’t be much tighter with three teams vying for the two places in the knockout stages.
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/ 7 December 2004
You might think such a political annihilation would destroy the confidence of even the most thick-skinned politician. But Ralph Nader, one of the last true radicals in American public life, thrives on this kind of setback. In an interview at his Washington offices, he shows not a flicker of self-doubt or self-pity. He feels sorry instead for the American electorate and the liberals who deserted them.
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/ 7 December 2004
A former manager of Oscar de la Hoya was sentenced on Monday to three years probation, including six months of home detention, after pleading guilty to fixing fights and trying to bribe a federal prosecutor and judge. Robert Mittleman, who briefly managed De la Hoya when the fighter turned pro after the 1992 Olympics, pleaded guilty earlier this year to two counts of sports bribery and one count of bribery of a public official.
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/ 7 December 2004
The government and rebel officials in Côte d’Ivoire have agreed on a new timetable to carry out a long-stalled peace plan in West Africa’s economic hub, South African President Thabo Mbeki announced. Briefing reporters after a five-day peace mission in Côte d’Ivoire, Mbeki said warring sides have settled on timing of disarmament, security reforms, and other divisive points.
Mbeki wraps up Ivorian peace trip
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/ 7 December 2004
Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams could not be more unlikely political associates. For more than three decades their names served as the very definition of polar opposites, magnetically repelled. North and south, chalk and cheese, — but they need each other.