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/ 7 December 2004
The community of the western region in North West province initiated a Devil’s Claw project with the assistance of the provincial Department of Agriculture, Conservation, Environment and Tourism in 1999. The aim of the project is to improve the production yield by domesticating and propagating Devil’s Claw tubers from the veld.
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/ 7 December 2004
The hype about the sensational Hollywood movie <i>The Day After Tomorrow </i>has died down, but reality is proving to be just as dramatic. The southwestern United States is in the grip of a five-year drought — the worst in 500 years. Desertification threatens China. The snows of Kilimanjaro are melting. Even the forests of Alaska are burning.
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/ 7 December 2004
If a solution to enable humans and baboons to live in harmony is not found soon, the Cape Peninsula’s chacma population could share the fate of the indigenous Khoina hunter-gatherers with whom they once shared foraging ground.
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/ 7 December 2004
<i>Africa Aids Education Series for Secondary Schools</i> is an integrated series of books aimed at giving the full picture of the HIV/Aids scenario and some of the questions related to it. The series is very attractive, with clear text and illustrations, and useful "Word Help" and "More Info" information bits.
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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.