14+ hour, 54+ min ago   (691+ words) School principals are getting into personal debt to keep schools functioning while provincial education departments delay releasing funds for basic operating costs. At the South African Principals’ Association (Sapa) national conference in Limpopo, attended by more than 850 principals, school leaders…...

14+ hour, 54+ min ago   (257+ words) Yet, for decades, the historical record of the slave trade and colonial underdevelopment has remained trapped in macro-narratives — broad aggregate figures of millions displaced, generalised accounts of mercantilist extraction, and colonial archives written by the victors. 1. Reconstructing the slave trade:…...

23+ hour, 46+ min ago   (332+ words) AI Parliamentarians come together in Cape Town this week for the 69th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC). The conference, hosted by South Africa’s parliament and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), will convene hundreds of legislators and parliamentary officials from across the world…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (534+ words) US president George W Bush, hardly a year in office, was in Florida on September 11 2001 listening attentively as elementary school pupils read from The Pet Goat, when Andrew Card, his chief of staff, quietly walked into the classroom and whispered…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (439+ words) The department of health is blaming you for providing inaccurate population numbers. Do you accept that? If your numbers are accurate, then according to the department of health we’re facing an immunisation crisis. But the experts agree we’re not, don’t…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (636+ words) How depressing to hear reports that pro-Palestinian protesters have returned to picket outside the stores of Cape Union Mart owner Philip Krawitz despite losing comprehensively in the Western Cape High Court on September 4 in a case Krawitz had brought as…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (819+ words) For millions of South Africans, the problem is not whether they want private health-care cover. It is whether they can afford it. As the Sunday Times recently reported, the cost of health insurance is growing an estimated 14%-16% a year, while…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (905+ words) Basic education minister Siviwe Gwarube and the department’s director-general (DG), Mathanzima Mweli, are embroiled in a cold war as Mweli refuses to be subjected to a lifestyle audit by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU). This is the latest episode in…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (664+ words) The irony is difficult to miss: South Africa keeps telling people to blow the whistle, while the people who actually do it are left fighting for their jobs, their reputations and, in Hasane’s case, their safety. Mphuthi’s dismissal from the…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (545+ words) The ANC has now taken its 2024 municipal candidates list chaos to the Electoral Court, asking it to overturn the Independent Electoral Commission’s decision to refuse to process more than 181 nominations affecting six municipalities because they were not submitted within the…...