Few of the schoolchildren whom the government’s policy on school fees is intended to benefit qualify for exemption in practice. And school funding policies that are supposed to redress apartheid-era inequities serve to privilege historically advantaged schools.
False optimism, a dying population and the prospect of war are a few of the issues the world is facing at the start of the New Year just celebrated throughout the world.
Duncan Campbell explains why a collection of films about September 11 has yet to find a distributor in the United States.
The handover of the navy’s first corvette warship from the German Frigate Consortuim will be delayed by up to five months — at a cost of millions of rands — allegedly owing to the supply of faulty communications cable from a South African company.
KwaZulu-Natal Premier Lionel Mtshali has called a special sitting of the KwaZulu-Natal legislature next week to vote on the dissolution of the legislature, in preparation for a provincial election.
John Edwards, a Democratic senator from North Carolina and a multimillionaire former lawyer, announced his intention to seek the presidency in 2004 yesterday, declaring himself a candidate for ”regular folks” against the stablishment ”insiders” of the Bush administration.
The landlocked African kingdom of Swaziland is believed to have the world’s highest rate of HIV, with almost four out of 10 adults infected with the virus which causes Aids.
One of the most prestigious universities in America, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said yesterday that it had begun an inquiry into claims that its scientists had covered up evidence of critical problems with President Bush’s proposed national missile defence system.
Smokers will have to order cigarettes by colour, with words such as ”blue” and ”gold” distinguishing different ranges when a European edict bans the terms ”light” and ”mild”.
France is sending its foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, today to Ivory Coast, its former West African colony where rebels have opened a new front in the insurgency now in its fourth month.