"Before, I felt I was inferior. Now I have the confidence to speak out in front of my class. I know how to prepare my lessons and I know how to assess my children," said Fozzie Hassane, a Sibuyile Primary schoolteacher in KaNamazane near Nelspruit.
One of the goals of the National Plan for Higher Education is to "promote equity of access and fair chances of success to all who are seeking to realise their potential through higher education, while eradicating all forms of unfair discrimination…"
Thabi Shange, KwaZulu-Natal’s regional land claims commissioner, is building a reputation as a tough decision-maker who delivers land in big portions and attracts big investments. She is on contract to deliver on the Land Restitution Act.
Selective amnesia is a useful tool for political survival — not least when it comes to remembering the dead. So it is that African National Congress leaders have been falling over themselves in the effusiveness of their praise for Peter Mokaba, following his death last Sunday morning.
Faced with accommodating the violently opposed views of the mining industry and the labour movement, Parliament’s minerals and energy committee must pass the controversial Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Bill within a week.
Faced with a dwindling membership base and lack of clear strategic programmes, South Africa’s youth political organisations are again battling to formulate new roles that would make them relevant in the new dispensation.
The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) initiative has been described as the only plan with a realistic chance of helping Africans get to grips with, and find solutions to, the many problems that dog their continent.
A former United Democratic Front (UDF) grouping, backed by African National Congress chiefs in the North West province, is "plotting" to undermine President Thabo Mbeki, sources close to the ANC leadership claimed this week. Moves were afoot to delink the presidency of the country from the party.
Millions of South African teenagers appear to be heeding calls to practice safer sex if statistics released recently by health authorities are anything to go by and the future of the South African youth may not be as gloomy as most think.
Although the government encourages South Africa’s youth to volunteer to work for the reconstruction of the country and Africa, many still Lack interest.
The Youth Commission’s Monde Mkalipi says there is a lot that needs to be done.