A training body has identified adult basic education as one of its priorities for social and economic upliftment Mail & Guardian Reporter The Manufacturing, Engineering and Related Services Sector Education and Training Authority (Merseta) celebrated literacy and adult learner week by handing certificates to 41 adult learners who passed the Independent Examination Board’s National Examinations […]

NO blows BARRED Sipho Seepe The anti-racism conference has offered an opportunity for the world to grapple with practical measures to ensure the eradication of all forms of discrimination and accompanying injustices everywhere in the world. This should, as United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan puts it, “help to free the present and the future […]

Mail & Guardian reporter Drew Forrest has joined the Mail & Guardian as its political editor. Forrest, formerly political editor of Business Day, joined the M&G at the beginning of the month. He will drive and oversee all aspects of the newspaper’s political coverage. Forrest worked for the M&G in its earlier incarnation as The […]

obituary: christiaan barnard Surgeon Christiaan Barnard, who has died aged 78, led the surgical team that performed the first human-to-human heart transplant on December 2 to 3 1967. The operation captured public imagination around the globe, and, literally overnight, Barnard became one of the best-known people in the world. Although his achievement, courage and vision […]

Congress Mahlangu The improvement of agricultural education will receive priority when the Association of Principals of Agricultural Colleges (Apac) an organisation representing all the agricultural colleges in this country meet with their counterparts in an international conference at the Kruger National Park next month. According to Allison van Niekerk, chairperson of Apac, the conference will […]

Glenda Daniels Half-a-million public service workers cast strike ballots this week in a wage dispute that masks the real tensions between labour and the state. “The wage issue is not the fundamental one here. The issues are really about human development, restructuring and retraining of staff,” says Vusi Nhlapo, president of the National Education, Health […]

Hellenic, usually very consistent, have started the season on the wrong foot Ntuthuko Maphumulo What have Hellenic done to anger the gods? That’s the question coach Steve Haupt is asking himself after a number of defeats at the beginning of the season. The Cape Town-based side, known as the “Greek gods”, are languishing near the […]

Members of the party have been accused of irregularly allocating council houses to family members Barry Streek Two new corruption scandals have rocked the Democratic Alliance in Cape Town this week, as the party battles to control the damage caused by the street renaming saga. Affidavits have surfaced alleging that a DA councillor was involved […]

REVIEW David Shapshak LG DVD 3251P The only problematic thing about owning an MP3s collection is that you can only play them on your computer. The highly popular music file format, which reduces an average song to a 10th its size, has taken the world by storm but playing them is very limited outside of […]

Michael Hartnack in Harare President Robert Mugabe hopes this week to pull off his second great diplomatic coup of the 18-month Zimbabwean crisis: getting his neighbours to accept it stems from white ownership of prime farmland rather than from his own efforts to cling to power. President Thabo Mbeki will be among the presidents of […]