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/ 10 November 2006
To be a teacher, you have to have love, patience and dedication. Always think of your work as a challenge, not a problem.
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/ 10 November 2006
I perceive myself as a strong person because many people confide in me when they have problems or face challenges. A number of parents and learners of our school have confided in me about their HIV status. I always try to make them see that this is not the end of the world and assist them in joining support groups in the area. Fortunately, the school has a parent who is a volunteer in doing basic home care. He visits to wash and feed people and to make sure that they take their medication.
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/ 10 November 2006
The KwaZulu-Natal department of education has come up with strategies to improve education infrastructure in the province.
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/ 10 November 2006
Education Minister Naledi Pandor has asked the department of education to draw up a plan that will subsidise well-to-do schools to enrol poor learners.
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/ 10 November 2006
South Africa is among the world’s worst when it comes to road accidents – a fact that is emphasised every year during the holiday periods when the number of accidents rise.
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/ 10 November 2006
Right-hand-driven Cadillacs will officially be available for sale in South Africa from February 2007, motor vehicle giant company General Motors South Africa (GMSA) has announced. GMSA plans are to release three new marques, the BLS mid-size sedan, SRX Crossover SUV and the STS full-size sedan.
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/ 10 November 2006
Strings of diamonds, cascades of champagne and tens of millions of dollars worth of gifts would be con-sidered ostentatious at any wedding. But in Burma, one of the poorest countries in Asia, the luxury on display in a video of the wedding laid on by the head of the junta, General Than Shwe, for his daughter, has left people up in arms.
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/ 10 November 2006
Sitting in the waiting room of my aroma-chiropodist the other day, I picked up a recent copy of what used to be that excellent British magazine <i>The Spectator</i>. It had an interesting front page. In enormous letters it announced THE END OF SOUTH AFRICA — Rian Malan Mourns the Collapse of His Homeland. That’s going to be worth a read, I thought, but I turned first to a favourite part of the “Speccie”, the weekly literary competition under the byline Jaspistos.
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/ 10 November 2006
It is predicted that by the end of the century, a barrel of water will cost more than a barrel of oil. In cities such as Dar es Salaam and Delhi, the taps often run dry and women spend hours every day looking for water to buy from tankers and vendors. In the rural areas this is often not an option, and available water must be harvested from rainfall or rivers without wasting a precious drop.
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/ 10 November 2006
First oil. Now manganese. This week we reveal the second major funding front set up by the ruling ANC. The party is clearly behind Chancellor House, an empowerment holding company that has won a stake in manganese mining rights with a potential value of R1-billion. It is part of a consortium chasing a R26-billion power station tender, and has lesser stakes in many other businesses.