In mere months, Moderna transformed an old Polaroid factory in America into a state-of-the-art vaccine-production centre. Why can’t we do the same?
"You know what Hillbrow and Yeoville are like," says a resident of Katlehong, glibly summarising the moral character of places he must have visited about twice in the past decade: "Full of criminals." But naturally: mainstream Jozi circles — the Melville café, the Soweto shebeen — have turned both names into abuses, conjoining them to a list of African cities similarly revered.
<i>TheTeacher</i> looks at how laws regulating the textbook industry are failing education. The education system is paying too much money for books and is enriching the publishing industry. The cost of books in general is high in South Africa compared to other countries and this is affecting the development of South Africa into a reading nation.
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/ 26 January 2005
The inaccessibility of learning materials is a problem for primary and secondary schools, where the Department of Education spends more than R1-billion on textbooks and is still left with four students having to share one book. It is also a problem for individuals, who are confronted with expensive curricular shopping lists at university.