David Macfarlane South Africa’s schools are heading for a crisis that could already be too late to avert completely. No new curriculum is yet in place for next year’s grade 10 learners; and it follows that no teacher training at this level has taken place, and no new textbooks and other support materials have been […]
Is there an answer to this million-dollar question? It’s what World Summit 2002 is all about Mail & Guardian reporter Sustainable development is being defined as social and economic development within biophysical environmental constraints that meets the needs of the present without compromising the potential of future generations to meet their own needs. A high […]
Mail & Guardian reporter Today more than one billion people live on less than one dollar a day. Levels of inequality continue at unsustainable levels: for example, about 25% of the world’s people receive 75% of the world’s income. It is clear that if the world continues along this unequal growth path, the threats of […]
BODY LANGUAGE Amelia Hill Laura Penny was never aware of making a choice. She and her husband always wanted children; they just didn’t want them this year, or the next, or, when it came to it, the year after that. “It never occurred to us we were risking not having children at all,” she said. […]
Kampala | Friday A UGANDAN army officer collapsed and died in southern Sudan while fleeing a rebel attack on a Sudan army unit with which he was working, army representative Major Shaban Bantariza said on Friday Captain Kheril Magara, a representative for the Ugandan army’s northern region who was serving as a liaison officer with […]
Paris | Wednesday THREE top members of Angola’s armed opposition, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita), including its secretary general Paulo Lukamba, have been taken prisoner by the army, Unita representative Georges Sandengue said in Paris on Wednesday. The two other officials were the movement’s secretary for external relations Alcides Sakala […]
STEFAANS BRMMER and JASON BLATT, Johannesburg | Friday THE African National Congress accepted at least $10-million in 1994 from a Taiwanese government slush fund set up to promote the interests of that country against those of mainland China. Revelations about the donation -confirmed by the former Taiwanese ambassador to South Africa – again raise the […]
THE captain of a Russian boat which allegedly poached Patagonian toothfish from Australian waters has died in hospital after drinking cleaning fluid mixed with orange juice. The man not named by authorities had been critically ill and in a coma since drinking the lethal cocktail three weeks ago during a binge with two other Russians […]
MALIAN Prime Minister Mande Sidibe resigned on Monday, less than six weeks before presidential elections, and was immediately replaced by presidential secretary-general Modibo Keita. A communiqu issued by President Alpha Oumar Konare’s office said that Keita would organise the elections keeping in mind that the administration must be neutral. The polls will be held on […]
Antananarivo | Wednesday MADAGASCAN President Didier Ratsiraka and his self-declared successor Marc Ravalomanana will meet “within the next 24 to 48 hours”, sources in the capital Antananarivo said on Tuesday. The meeting was requested by the island nation’s armed forces which are under the command of the army chief of staff, General Ismail Mounibou, and […]