The United Nations Security Council authorised on Tuesday up to 26 000 troops and police for Darfur and approved the use of force to protect civilians in Sudan’s arid western region. Expected to cost more than -billion in the first year, the combined ”hybrid” UN-African Union operation aims to quell violence in Darfur.
All 69 Chinese coal miners trapped underground by flood waters for more than three days emerged in broad daylight blindfolded, soaked but safe on Wednesday, state media said. The miners had been trapped in the Zhijian colliery in Shan county since Sunday morning when a flash flood surged through an old shaft.
A medical student was raped at the Chris Hani-Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, media reports said on Tuesday. The student was apparently working in the gynaecology unit of the hospital and was raped while on her way to fetch blood samples for a doctor on Monday.
An advocate, a youth talk show host and an educator have been named finalists in the education category of this year’s ShopriteCheckers/SABC2 Woman of the Year Award. Advocate Molly Malete, Lotus FM presenter CJ Benjamin and educator Carole Podetti Ngono were selected by a panel of judges chaired by Professor Teboho Moja, who has been special adviser to two ministers of education in South Africa.
There were no winners during the public service strike. Everyone who participated in the strike sacrificed something. Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi was humiliated when unions refused to meet her — twice on one day.
If you have enough drinkable water in a borehole near your school, your institution could benefit from a multimillion-rand expansion drive by PlayPumps International and Roundabout Outdoors. The drive aims to improve the lives of 10-million people in the next three years through the delivery of playpump water systems to communities where access to water is still a challenge.
A classroom in Mexico City: hands shoot in the air. A nod sends one boy bounding to the digital board at the front, where he taps the nipple of a three-dimensional body image. There is a loud “ping” and a hyper-reality picture of the mammary glands is highlighted with such vigour it seems to jump out of the wall. The boy smiles and takes his seat and the class launches into a discussion about what different glands do.
The first group of 400 school principals has been enrolled for the South African National Professional Qualification for Principals. This is part of an initiative by the department of education to professionalise principalships and reclaim the status once attached to the position.
The Suid-Afrikaanse Onderwysersunie is seeking legal advice over the government’s implementation of the Government Employees’ Medical Scheme. The union said the government’s implementation of Gems was undermining the economic rights of its members.
Abdullah Sujee was named one of South Africa’s most innovative teachers last year. Representing South Africa in Philadelphia in the United States at the Worldwide Innovative Teachers’ Awards, Sujee was voted runner-up in the best teacher category. He believes in teaching with flair by making lessons memorable, exciting, worthy and contextual.