With the advent of coalition politics at local and national level, policies are needed that help to maintain stability
Covid disrupted the 2020 academic year but catchup plans have been hatched in the nine provinces, including extra lessons, earlier class times, and subject-specific boot camps
Despite efforts to prepare for the worst, it is ‘very unlikely’ that hospitals will be able to cope with the onslaught of Covid-19 cases
Evidence shows schools are not ready as the department pushes them to reopen in 10 days
COMMENT We talk as if building wind, solar and other sources of limitless, clean energy will redistribute wealth and drive social justice globally. We see it as the fix for a system that concentrates too much power in the hands of too few people. But too much hope is being attached to renewable energy. When […]
The obsessive drive by provincial departments of education to be ranked the best performing province in the matric exams is dangerous and risks compromising the value of education in the South African public school system. MECs for education downplay this as “healthy competition” but I’ve covered the release of matric results for long enough now […]
There may be no quick fix to making our hospitals safer, but there may be one simple place to start
Each province gets over R3m a year to spend on the last rites of its latest and greatest – but if they spend it all in one go, that’s their funeral.
The legislature should not be fixated on clothes, and the EFF should stop their gimmicks. There is work to be done.
The family-run business OBC Chickens was founded in 1987 and franchised in 1998.
The need and usefulness of the provinces has been debated endlessly without reaching a conclusion.
Clashes over the location of the new capitals have erupted both between and within political parties.