The Tshiamiso Trust has begun paying out workers who contracted silicosis and TB in South Africa’s gold mines, but the amounts are paltry against what they have lost to poor health over the years.
Mr Mogopodi sold newspapers outside Kagiso. Until one day, he disappeared.
Lebole Dibetle was a dedicated policeman who was sent to Boipatong after the massacre. He would never be the same again, writes Monako Dibetle.
<b>Monako Dibetle</b> takes us on a ride through his infamous township and finds a complicated path back to heart and home.
In Tshing, outside Ventersdorp, a Soweto football derby encounter generates more excitement than the news of Eugene Terre’Blanche’s demise.
"You will not find a place in this country with so many artworks [made by one artist] … even if it is by many artists, put together under one roof."
Fifty years after the massacre, the township is crippled by neglect.
Durban University of Technology (DUT) is without a leader again following the resignation of vice-chancellor and principal Roy du Pré.
Education department taken to Human Rights Commission to explain ‘forced removal’ of learners.
The fury that greeted the news that Zuma has fathered another child out of wedlock indicates that the tide of support may have reached its limit.
College reform urgently needed as two-thirds of first-year maths and science students fail.
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Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga has read the riot act to more than 100 of her top officials, warning them that none of them can take their jobs for granted.
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/ 15 October 2009
Directive and accountable leadership was more important than collegiality
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/ 13 October 2009
Monako Dibetle looks at a range of problems that have arisen from the restructuring of higher education institutions.
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/ 24 September 2009
A dejected mongrel slumps on the sunlit, polished stoep of a three-roomed RDP house in Tshing township, Ventersdorp.
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/ 23 September 2009
University residences are filled to capacity and face increasing student numbers, writes Monako Dibetle.
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When the Birches Pre-Primary School garden and environmental project started in 1993, few learners showed interest.
Thamsanqa Wilkinson Kambule. Born January 15 1921; died August 7 2009
Mary Metcalfe, former Gauteng education minister, has been appointed director general in the Department of Higher Education and Training.
Former editor Vusi Mona, whose appointment as acting communications head in the presidency was announced this week, is mired in a bribery scandal.
The management of the University of Zululand (Unizulu) has been accused of poor management, racism and nepotism.
Newly appointed University of the Free State (UFS) vice-chancellor Professor Jonathan Jansen shares his vision for the university with Monako Dibetle
A list of 13 names has been compiled for the post of vice-chancellor of the University of Pretoria after the resignation of Calie Pistorius.
Pampallis taught at schools and lectured at universities in South Africa and abroad.
The education department has released a draft policy but have failed to follow guidelines recommended by a study conducted in 2005.
The recent tragedy in Welkom has not deterred illegal miners from going back underground. Monako Dibetle finds out what drives them.
Stronger citizen participation will drive the continent’s integration and fast-track its development goals.
More on the damning survey published by the <i>M&G</i> which found that racial, gender and other forms of discrimination are rife in higher education.
A report on SA universities highlights discrimination on campuses. Cornia Pretorius and Monako Dibetle look at the challenges.
I can’t buy a car because I am always broke. When I walk around the township people think that because I am a teacher I have it better.
Unemployment and a lack of access to good education made me leave home in the 1980s and I see that my children are following in the same footsteps.