The Tshiamiso Trust has begun paying out workers who contracted silicosis and TB in South Africa’s gold mines, but the amounts are paltry against what they have lost to poor…
Mr Mogopodi sold newspapers outside Kagiso. Until one day, he disappeared.
Lebole Dibetle was a dedicated policeman who was sent to Boipatong after the massacre. He would never be the same again, writes Monako Dibetle.
<b>Monako Dibetle</b> takes us on a ride through his infamous township and finds a complicated path back to heart and home.
In Tshing, outside Ventersdorp, a Soweto football derby encounter generates more excitement than the news of Eugene Terre’Blanche’s demise.
"You will not find a place in this country with so many artworks [made by one artist] … even if it is by many artists, put together under one roof."
Fifty years after the massacre, the township is crippled by neglect.
Durban University of Technology (DUT) is without a leader again following the resignation of vice-chancellor and principal Roy du Pré.
Education department taken to Human Rights Commission to explain ‘forced removal’ of learners.
Adult education
The fury that greeted the news that Zuma has fathered another child out of wedlock indicates that the tide of support may have reached its limit.
College reform urgently needed as two-thirds of first-year maths and science students fail.
Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga has read the riot act to more than 100 of her top officials, warning them that none of them can take their jobs for granted.
Directive and accountable leadership was more important than collegiality
Monako Dibetle looks at a range of problems that have arisen from the restructuring of higher education institutions.
A dejected mongrel slumps on the sunlit, polished stoep of a three-roomed RDP house in Tshing township, Ventersdorp.
University residences are filled to capacity and face increasing student numbers, writes Monako Dibetle.
When the Birches Pre-Primary School garden and environmental project started in 1993, few learners showed interest.
Mary Metcalfe, former Gauteng education minister, has been appointed director general in the Department of Higher Education and Training.
Thamsanqa Wilkinson Kambule. Born January 15 1921; died August 7 2009
