Belle Primary School in Orlando West has no library, inadequate teaching staff, no staff room, too few classrooms and desks. It recently merged with Tlhoreng School and this month a name will be brainstormed for the new school. Belle is one of eight schools in District 12 in Soweto that had to be merged to avoid wasting resources, according to the Gauteng department of education.
Younger children are experimenting with drugs more than ever in the history of South Africa, and it appears to be widely spread over the racial, cultural and economic sections of society.
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/ 7 February 2007
When Robbie Brighton was doing a BCom degree, he did not have a clue he would one day become a maths teacher.
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/ 7 February 2007
Lou Reed once had this to say about the man often held to be the United States’s most intellectually rigorous rock writer: "How do you think it feels," barked the singer in the middle of a particularly rowdy 1978 New York performance, "working for a fucking year, and you get a B-plus from an asshole in the Village Voice?"
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/ 7 February 2007
There is a wonderful inherent logic and rationality to maths, and not just with equations. It is a great pity that the department of education is unable or unwilling to apply some of this rationale to dealing with the problem of low pass rates in maths in the country.
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/ 7 November 2006
The overwhelming majority of South Africans — a total of 90% — say they respect teachers for their dedicated service to children. This is according to the South African Social Attitudes Survey (Sasas), which has just been published by the Human Sciences Research Council.
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/ 7 November 2006
The neurological condition attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is genetic, new research has found. “You often find that if one child is ADHD, the other children are too, because the condition in 80% of cases is genetic, research shows,” says Professor André Venter, an international expert based at the University of the Free State.
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/ 1 September 2002
International competitiveness has become a god to which world leaders genuflect, an attitude that has to be challenged at the World Summit on Sustainable Development. This view was expressed at a commission on alternative economic models and development strategies.
Alexandra township will turn into a battleground for the hearts and souls of the urban poor when three civil society groups seek to outgun each other on Action Day.
The unfair trade practices of Europe and the United States has so far been the hottest issue under the spotlight for all groups of civil society, local and international, at the Jo’burg World Summit on Sustainable Development.
A management course designed specifically to promote women educators began in Johannesburg this year — a first for South Africa.
South Africans will constitute about 10 000 of the 65 000 delegates who will descend on Johannesburg for the World Summit on Sustainable Development next month.
Less than four months before the World Summit on Sustainable Development begins in Johannesburg, there is no sign that the split in the civil society process is being mended.
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/ 9 February 2001
A PARYS farmer, Chris van Zyl, was this week fined R19 000 for brutally assaulting two Eskom workers by tying them to a motorbike, dragging them around naked, shooting at them and saying, ?I will show you how I will kill kaffirs.? However, magistrate Johan Visagie this week refused to declare Van Zyl unfit to […]
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/ 12 January 2001
At least five Cosatu affiliated unions have plans to merge this year, in line with international labour trends.
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/ 12 January 2001
Corrie Sanders, former World Boxing Union (WBU) heavyweight champion, is optimistic about his boxing future.
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/ 12 January 2001
The draft plan is being finalised and if adopted the NSS will be launched on February 22 at a national skills development conference in Johannesburg.
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/ 12 January 2001
Has the public’s psychological make-up changed so radically over the past four years as to warrant a 400% increase in violence on board aircraft?
An agreement reached at the CCMA almost brings the security strike to an end, but white employers fail to come on board.