Glenda Daniels The tripartite alliance is balanced on a knife-edge as talks deadlocked this week between the African National Congress and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) over the government’s privatisation policies. Cosatu says it will engage in a two-day strike on August 29 and 30 with a build-up of half-day strikes and […]
Peter Kingston Here’s a whopping conundrum. For eight years you’ve been toiling on your thesis about the British post-war far left, as it happens and you’re within a spit of the doctorate. The examiners want you to rejig the thesis introduction and resubmit it. On the other hand, a song you’ve written for your band […]
REVIEW David Shapshak Motorola v.8088 The best thing about Motorola phones, a friend who lives in the United States and cherishes his tells me, is that they come apart when you drop them. The kinetic energy from the fall dissipates when the parts unclip, he says. Then it puts it all back together again. I […]
Glenda Daniels Development studies in South Africa are to receive a major boost as Wits University prepares to launch a new postgraduate initiative in the field. “This will entail the largest development network in the country and the continent,” says Professor Belinda Bozzoli, head of social sciences, who is spearheading the project. Three faculties will […]
The aim of education should not be merely to reproduce things such as family and society as they are at present, but to use our energies to generate something better, argues Donald Moerdijk Coline Serreau is a feminist film director whose work deserves more attention than it has so far received. In a series of […]
comment Mbuyiselo Botha The South African Men’s Forum is one of the stakeholders organising the Gender Summit and has been playing an advocacy role in the Commission on Gender Equality. For Women’s Day, on August 9, the forum has called on men to move away from the sidelines and to become a greater presence in […]
Niki Moore The KwaDapha camp at Kosi Bay where slain academic David Webster lived while he did his anthropological research a monument to the anti-apartheid martyr is again the focus of controversial activities. Unlawful tourism developments have sprung up next to Webster’s camp, destroying pristine coastal forest. KwaZulu-Natal wildlife officials are powerless to prevent five […]
But unions say the new curriculum could fall flat on its face if implementation is not up to scratch David Macfarlane An exceptionally bold language policy forms a major part of the new school curriculum released in draft form this week. But the draft lacks any detailed budget for implementation, raising questions about how successfully […]
Ulrike Kistner on the world of work and the world of learning the making of a beautiful fit If job ads are anything to go by, hirers of educated free labour power in plentiful supply are looking for adepts in management, policy, strategy, service and leadership. Sought-after virtues include initiative, self-motivation, innovativeness, “enthusiasm for transformation”, […]
A delegate hacked the conference network and was given an award typical of the Defcon conference that attracts enthusiasts and saboteurs alike Simon Edwards The crowds that descended on Las Vegas’s casinos, strip clubs and all-you-can-eat restaurants recently were a little different from the norm. They were a little more troublesome, too. For these thrill […]