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South Africa's educational confusion over evolution
Posted by:
terrybell 
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated Fri Nov 13 23:55:09 -0800 2009 | technology-news
There are a myriad contradictions in South Africa. And none more so than the constant complaints about the paucity of science graduates in a region hailed as the cradle of humankind. For this is also the region — and the...
Book review: The Guardian — the nhistory of South Africa's ...
Posted by: terrybell
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated Sat Oct 31 09:49:44 -0700 2009 | political-news
James Zug. The Guardian: The History of South Africa’s Extraordinary Anti-Apartheid Newspaper . East Lansing: Michigan State University Press; Pretoria: UNISA Press, 2007 The Guardian is part of the anti-apartheid folk lore of South Africa, as a polemical newspaper that...
Why SA labour must avoid the 'gang mentality' approach
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terrybell
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated Fri Oct 16 05:44:01 -0700 2009 | political-news
Wednesday last week (October 7) provided a classic example of intolerance in the labour movement followed by weasel words and downright lies to cloud the issue. The incident was a parliamentary portfolio committee public hearing on labour brokers — suppliers...
Law enforcement failure behind SA labour broker furore
Posted by: terrybell
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated Sat Oct 10 03:16:22 -0700 2009 | business-news
There are a great many unacceptable labour practices throughout South Africa, many of them undoubtedly related to the treatment of workers supplied by labour brokers. But the source of the problem may lie not so much with how workers are...
Why South Africa needs to debate trade union federation's resolutions
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terrybell
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated Sun Oct 04 23:40:30 -0700 2009 | political-news
Less than a week after the national congress of South Africa’s largest trade union federation, Cosatu, ended on September 24, a national radio debate was organised to discuss the resolutions of this gathering. But it was cancelled at the last...
THE STARK CHOICE FACING ALL OF US
Posted by: terrybell
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated Sun Oct 04 23:46:51 -0700 2009 | business-news
Like fish stranded by a fast retreating tide, most mainstream economists, commentators and governments tend to be flapping around frantically and aimlessly, unaware of the real cause of their distress. The more cautious among them hope for a slow return...
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