Despite being deaf, four young girls have settled in well at a Johannesburg former Model C school. Roshila Pillay reports Bibi Tilly, Nyeleti Nkwinika, Mpho Dlukulu and Lerato Ka Mncube enrolled at Parktown High School for Girls so they could obtain results that would ensure university entrance. The four have been welcomed at the school […]
The campaign to get South Africans reading kicked off last month with, among other materials, a colourful poster featuring school children, a lawyer, a newspaper vendor, a taxi full of passengers – and men and women from a variety of backgrounds. The poster captures a bus whizzing past with “HIV/Aids Be Wise Condomise” emblazoned on […]
Unisa staged a thorough retreat on Thursday when it accepted a settlement offer from former employee Margaret Orr that it had turned down the day before.
Orr’s victory in this week’s Labour Court case followed one two years ago when she took the university’s then-chairperson of council, McCaps Motimele, to court over alleged sexual harassment.
These pensioners will have to reapply for their grants, a process that could take months.
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/ 2 February 2001
THE South African government will not intervene to save South African Mariette Bosch, who allegedly shot her best friend to marry her husband, from the gallows in Botswana. However, the Cape High Court is considering an application by Tanzanian national Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, the man allegedly responsible for the bomb that destroyed the United States […]
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/ 12 January 2001
A 27-year-old Kenyan student almost crashed a jumbo jet when he invaded the cockpit because he felt threatened by other passengers.