Teachers and their colleagues across the public service sector are currently "marking" the government’s report card on a vital subject: meeting employee healthcare needs through affordable medical scheme benefits.
Long-awaited legislation to allow schools cheaper access to the Internet has been approved – more than four years after the Department of Education and the Department of Communications introduced the idea in a policy document.
Suzie Bernardo arrives at the market in the centre of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, at dawn after a long bus ride from a remote slum. There she erects her portable charcoal stove, and sets out tea glasses clouded with fingerprints, and jars of tea, coffee and sugar.
What do South Africa’s ”born frees” – who came into the world after the death of apartheid, or were too young to remember it – know about their country’s traumatic past? Have our children been changed by 12 years of democracy?
The last time Sinnathurai Kandasamy saw his wife, Thiraviyam, was a little more than two weeks ago, when she left home for a hospital check-up in the east coast Sri Lankan town of Trincomalee. Hours later Kandasamy found his wife dead in a mortuary.
The two Boeremag accused escaped under the police’s watch, not that of his department, Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour said on Thursday. ”I want to make it clear that it was not my people who took [the Boeremag trialists] to court,” Balfour said. Herman van Rooyen and Rudi Gouws went missing during the lunch hour recess of the treason trial at the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday.
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Tsunami warnings for New Zealand, Fiji and the rest of the Pacific have been cancelled following a massive 8,0 quake in Tonga, United States tsunami monitors said on Wednesday. There were few early reports of injury or damage in Tonga, although a hotel guest hurt his leg when he jumped from a third-floor window.
International mediators battled on Wednesday to save the African Union’s make-or-break bid to end Darfur’s bloody civil war after peace talks between the Khartoum government and rebels ran into another quagmire. United States envoy Robert Zoellick and British International Development Minister Hilary Benn joined AU officials in seeking a new compromise after rebel leaders from the devastated western Sudanese region refused to sign a peace deal.
England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson said on Wednesday that striker Wayne Rooney had more than one break in his foot and would probably need a ”miracle” to be fit for the World Cup. Eriksson added that he planned to name Rooney in his provisional 23-man squad on Monday, a week before the official Fifa deadline, and then keep his fingers firmly crossed.