”When President Robert Mugabe ploughs up neighbourhoods that coincidentally voted against him, he should be criticised,” former United States president Bill Clinton told guests at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg on Monday.
The alleged abductor and murderer of Leigh Matthews (21) will not testify at his trial or call a single witness in his defence, media reports said on Tuesday. The decision comes in spite of the 47 witnesses who might testify for the state against Donovan Moodley (24).
The Israeli government on Monday night appeared to give ground to thousands of anti-disengagement protesters by allowing them to continue an illegal march to the Gaza settlements. Thousands of police officers and soldiers were deployed to block the marchers’ way but after a two-hour standoff on Monday night, the police and army pulled back.
A historic lawsuit in the Nairobi High Court, the first time that a Kenyan court will have heard a case relating to alleged discrimination against someone living with Aids, recently galvanised East African Aids activists. Previously fractious organisations representing HIV-positive Kenyans, united to demonstrate in the streets and to declare a "new militancy".
Robben Island has not been declared a South African national heritage site because its managers have failed to meet statutory requirements.
<i>The teacher</i> spoke to the new Director General of Education, Duncan Hindle, about his life in education so far. Hindle started teaching in 1979 at Maritzburg College, where he was also a student. He has also served as president of the South African Teacher’s Union for a year in 1995.
This month I want you to walk with me through the history of outcomes based education (OBE) as I have experienced it over the past three decades. This journey led to my current understandings of OBE –and to where I left off in my previous three columns in the <i>Teacher</i>
News about the London bombings break at the same time J-Lo’s latest tantrum makes world headlines — welcome to the global village, courtesy of 24-hour media networks. Globalisation and the tools of 21st-century communication have turned journalism into a new animal and present different opportunities for working journalists.
The recent drowning of eight learners from Ndlela High School, in Mpumalanga, during their visit to Richards Bay in KwaZulu-Natal, points again to an urgent need to intensify swimming lessons at schools. Every drowning is one life too many; the human and national asset of a life – is tragic.
Sports facilities are notoriously dodgy at most township schools, with soccer and netball usually played on dusty and bumpy surfaces using well-worn equipment. A possible solution to this — at least in the short term — would be for schools to use existing municipal sports facilities nearby to them, many of which lie dormant during weekdays.