ELEPHANTS and hippos have destroyed up to 10 000 hectares of crops in
hunger-stricken Malawi’s southern lakeshore district of Mangochi, a local
lawmaker said on Saturday.
SOUTH Korean authorities on Saturday slaughtered thousands of animals after
outbreaks of highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease.
JAPANESE electronics giant Sony has started developing a successor to its
popular PlayStation 2 game console which it aims to complete by 2005, a
report said on Sunday.
A ZIMBABWEAN farmer, barricaded in his house since April 16, has for 20 days
running continued to resist efforts by war veterans to evict him, Zimbabwe’s
Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) reported on Sunday.
Bongani Majola Students identify with other students naturally. To exploit this simple truism, Technikon Pretoria has developed an innovative Peer Education Programme to provide students with skills to help their peers. Programme manager Francette Bedford says the programme has three core training areas. The academic peer education area is aimed at students within the accounting […]
Alexander Sudheim The considerable musical ability of Zulu Princess Magogo has been brought to the stage In 1900, Mntwana Constance Magogo kaDinuzulu was born to King Dinuzulu KaCetshwayo in Nongoma, Zululand. The year marked the beginning of one of the most turbulent periods in the history of the Zulu people, one whose trials and tribulations […]
Bongani Majola Sama 8, the eighth South African Music Awards, takes on a ground- breaking spin this weekend with a two-day extravaganza of fashion, cross-genre live performances and, of course, plenty of gossip. The recently concluded, rather fruitless inter-Congolese dialogue brought about the change of venue from the regular Sun City deal to the 900-seater […]
Bongani Majola Many aspirant students of engineering do not qualify for admission into study the first time around due to their weak educational background. Technikon Pretoria has devised a second-chance programme, the Technology Access Programme, for students with sufficient potential to master an engineering course but are “handicapped by a poor schooling system”. Every applicant […]
Guy Willoughby Q&A GRAHAMWEIR Letters from Patient Essop began life as part of a larger show with the Elastic Band. Now it’s a complete musical play on its own. Explain this gestation? Essop has found its proper space and feels more complete now. I am not as emotionally linked to the mat- erial as I […]
Finding reliable information about programme quality and accreditation is an area of the transnational education road map that still needs to be drawn. Those interested in online degree programmes can start by looking at general reference publications for distance education, such as the Bear’s Guide to Earning Degrees by Distance Learning (www.degree.net). Information about the […]