MORE than 60 Mpumalanga high school pupils crammed into a courtroom on Tuesday to face charges following Monday’s violent protest against a teacher who hit a boy. The pupils are from Sozama Secondary School in Mhluzi township, near Middelburg, and are charged with public violence and malicious damage to property. They were not asked to […]
A GROUP of angry Mpumalanga pupils ran riot on Monday and stoned teachers’ cars in protest against corporal punishment. Police arrested over 60 pupils from Sozama Secondary School at Mhluzi near Middelburg who also disrupted classes in the township’s other two schools, said police spokesman Captain Malcolm Mokomeni. He said the pupils were charged with […]
Twenty-five Northern Province schools are set to start teaching Ndebele, but there aren’t any textbooks. TWENTY-FIVE schools are ready to teach Ndebele as a home language for the first time in the Northern Province, but there are no textbooks, African Eye News Service reports. The language has been introduced for pre-school and grade one pupils […]
Waste paper usually lands in a rubbish bin, but at a rural Mpumalanga school it’s turned into special bricks that are used to make fire. The initiative is part of intensive waste recycling and environmental education at Mhwayi Primary School in Clau-Clau tribal trust near Nelspruit. The multi-award winning school uses the waste paper bricks […]
To most kids living on the Cape Flats, the term ‘wildlife” means negotiating a daily gauntlet of gangs, violence and drugs. But learners in strife-torn townships like Mitchell’s Plain, Khayelitsha and Langa in the Western Cape, are also receiving healthier lessons in environmental survival and awareness. In recent years they have been participants in a […]
Terrifying incidents at schools around the country has resulted in a call for staff to be allowed to carry guns at school. A recent incident that has highlighted the vulnerability of educators involves school principal Lucy Lushaba (47) who was shot dead over the festive season. Lushaba, of Tiboneleni primary school in Daantjie tribal trust, […]
Initiation schools in Mpumalanga are still the sole responsibility of traditional leaders because the province has yet to enact legislation to regulate them. The province’s House of Traditional Leaders is currently drafting a policy on schools, which will eventually be passed by the legislature as law, says house representative Inkosi Mzingeli Mthethwa. ‘We’ve consulted with […]
Where some may view downtown Jozi as an innocuous slum, while the camera lens discovers the hidden spaces that have become a habitat for the homeless and an exhibition of the lively and the living. Johannesburg Circa Now is a multi-dimensional look at the inner city, writes Sizwe samaYende.
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/ 6 November 2003
<b>Finalist – Corporations:</b> Eskom Cairn Lemon Project
David Mabaso can tell you a thing or two about the sweet and sour of life. The tall, 38-year-old son of farm labourers at Cairn Farm near Nelspruit, is a hero in his community after playing a central role in preventing them from being evicted and for negotiating tirelessly to get them a 45ha lemon orchard.
Development in Sekhukhuneland in Limpopo cuts like a double-edged sword. Mining creates jobs for thousands who live in the sprawling villages of the area, but the diggings leave a trail of environmental destruction.
Disgruntled Mpumalanga farm workers are pooling their meagre earnings to take legal action against their equity partner for allegedly refusing to divulge the performance of a R16-million export farm they co-own.
Three of the Eastern Cape’s most senior officials face possible criminal charges after confirming this week that key documentary evidence relating to an alleged property scam has gone missing.
Losing his job as an electrical appliance repairman turned out to be the best thing for Hobson Nkosi. It sparked a creativity he never knew he had. The 33-year-old from Dwarsloop, near Bushbuckridge in Limpopo province, wanted to start a bakery, but a new oven cost too much.