"I want to declare now the end of the season of summits," said Blade Nzimande in his closing address on Friday to the skills summit in Gauteng.
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Agri SA on Friday welcomed an announcement by Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa that crime-fighting units would be reinstated in rural areas.
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/ 10 September 2010
Economists estimate that South Africa would be R550-billion better off if we could all read, writes <b>Cynthia Hugo</b>.
Gauteng plans to introduce its new licence-plate system in December, the month it expects to run out of numbers to allocate under the old system.
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The chairperson of the portfolio committee on police says there is potential for financial mismanagement within the police that is being overlooked.
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A court interdict was on Friday being sought to stop a local man from burning bibles at the Library Gardens in Johannesburg.
When pupils misbehave, how can a teacher get on with the job? <sb>Rachel Williams</b> visited a school in that brought in a behaviour expert.
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The often crippling costs entailed in educating a child can be met with a little planning and forethought, writes <b>Sameerah Karolia</b>.
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An official report has accused the chief operating officer of the Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency of rhino poaching in the province.
To equip children for the workplace in the 21st century, conventional teaching must give way to the use of technology.
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I can’t condone the gross injustice of SA’s past, but I can finally relate to how and why the majority of white people carried on with their lives.
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We need to respect and nurture our educators, writes <b>Graeme Bloch</b>.
In a digital age, the wonderful world of books is accessible to many more people, writes <b>Steve Vosloo</B>.
President Jacob Zuma must seize the moment and get a grip on the country’s "economic tiller", DA leader Helen Zille said on Friday.
The Kha Ri Gude Mass Literacy Campaign is on its way to fulfilling its goal of changing the lives of 4,7-million disadvantaged South Africans by 2015.
Public sector wage hikes of up to 57% a year prompt questions over productivity levels.
School sport, like other extra-curricular activities, is an important part of a child’s education and it should not be possible to negotiate it away.
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Teaching acumen, not pass rates, is what counts in a good school, writes <b>Alan Clarke</b>.
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/ 10 September 2010
If these images were not captured, our collective memories would be impoverished, restricted to middle-class everydayness.
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/ 10 September 2010
With just a few weeks to go before the 2010 matric examinations, learners should be hard at work preparing for the challenge.
The battle to get Czech fugitive and alleged crime boss Radovan Krejcir out of South Africa is heating up.
It’s great business, but it is so environmentally
unsound it has been banned in parts of Australia.
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/ 10 September 2010
As Pakistan’s disgrace casts a shadow over the game, the Champions League offers local provincial players a rare shot at cricket’s titans.
The training institutions have agreed to stop fighting over funds and look for solutions, writes <b>Jim Freeman</b>.
This week Saru reminded the press that there is a process to be followed and that, at least for now, Peter de Villiers remains the coach of the Boks.
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In an unprecedented move, the Northern Cape education department has scrapped matric prelim exams for the class of 2010.
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Labour and business must unite to meet the country’s human resource development imperatives, said Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe on Thursday.
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The police’s claim that the number of murders had declined last year was "plausible" but the problem of violent crime still had to be addressed.
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President Jacob Zuma and the ANC’s national executive committee are not assured of Cosatu’s support at the next elective conference of the ANC.
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The public-service strike was suspended for 21 days this week because it was losing public support and members could not afford to forfeit more pay.
Former police chief Jackie Selebi is pinning his hopes of staying out of jail on a criminal probe into Glenn Agliotti’s tax affairs.
Attacks on President Jacob Zuma are continuing to polarise the Young Communist League.