About 5Â 000 high school pupils from across Gauteng brought traffic to a standstill in central Johannesburg on Tuesday, demanding the implementation of recovery plans after the public-service strike, metro police said. The pupils were led by the Congress of South African Students.
Marc wears a New York Yankees cap, loves rap music and has ”Los Angeles” scrawled in black ink across his forearm, but he will probably never see the United States. The 21-year-old is one of an estimated one million Sudanese refugees living in Cairo. Poor, jobless and subject to racist abuse, he has few aspirations other than to leave Egypt.
Human Rights Watch on Tuesday urged Southern African leaders to send monitors to Zimbabwe to investigate the clampdown on the pro-democracy movement. On the eve of a key Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit , leading Zimbabwean human rights groups said they held a four-hour meeting with South African mediators.
The death toll from the collapse of a bridge under construction in central China rose to 36 on Wednesday, with 23 others still missing, officials said. The 328m bridge over the Tuo River in Hunan province crumbled on Monday as workers were removing steel scaffolding erected during the building work, the State Administration of Work Safety said.
Japan offered remorse for past atrocities on the anniversary on Wednesday of its World War II surrender as top leaders steered clear of a shrine at the heart of friction with neighbouring countries. Sixty-two years after Japan capitulated in the deadliest conflict in history, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged that his country would not return to war.
The death toll from brutal truck bombings targeting the ancient Yazidi religious sect in northern Iraq rose to more than 200 on Wednesday, a local government official said. The mayor of Sinjar, a town in the northern province of Nineveh where four truck bombs exploded on Tuesday, voiced fears that the toll could rise further.
Project management skills are so valuable that they can be used in everyday work-life and not just in a specific project. This is the view of Professor Pieter Steyn, principal of Cranefield College, and the first South African to be appointed to the research management board of the International Project Management Association.
Erika Jacobs knew that by attaining an MBA degree she would be better equipped to start her own business, so she registered for the Unisa MBL. She wanted to acquire strategic information on markets, labour issues, legislation and interest rates. Jacobs had to produce a research thesis, which turned out to be a roller coaster ride. As a BCom accounting graduate, she did not have much experience in writing essays of an academic nature.
The teaching of foreign languages at South African universities is looking peachy, with Mandarin being the flavour of the moment as China flexes its economic muscle in the rest of the world. British media reports indicate that in the past five years the number of non-Chinese people learning Mandarin Chinese has catapulted to 30-million.
With regard to gender transformation, universities are guided by rosy visions informed by the Constitution, the Employment Equity and Labour Relations Acts, the Higher Education Act, the White Paper on Education and other idealistic documents. Vice-chancellors have bravely taken on the challenge of transformation of institutions of higher learning, writes Margaret Orr.