The much-decried “Bantu Education” system under Apartheid was better than what South Africa currently offers school children, a leading black academic has announced. Rabelani Dagada, author, Development Economist, Information Technologist and Knowledge Management Specialist based…
Raeesa Pather in Voices March 13, 2015 On Monday, UCT student Chumani Maxwele threw human excrement at the statue of Cecil John Rhodes to protest against institutional racism, white privilege and the lack of transformation…
Posted on 08/21/2015 Professor Jonathan Jansen has told state educationalists that they have all become complacent with “this rubbish we call education”. Outspoken academic Professor Jonathan Jansen says it is pointless introducing Mandarin in South…
2015-03-09 Cape Town – A bucket of faeces thrown on a statue of Cecil John Rhodes at the University of Cape Town (UCT) has escalated protests over racial transformation. UCT student activists who staged the…
By Mike Smith 3rd of September 2015 I am sick of blacks and their monkey chatter they call language. Now if you are a liberal then you probably almost had a heart attack, a stroke…
Johannesburg – EduSolutions, the company that failed to deliver textbooks to schools in Limpopo, is now supplying tablet computers, laptops and e-textbooks worth R200m to schools in Gauteng. On Monday, Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi…
Violent demonstrations broke out in Port Elizabeth over the closure of 33 schools because of a shortage of teachers Police also forced to deny allegations they fired live rounds after demonstrators claimed they found shell…
I haven’t voiced my opinions about Open Stellenbosch to date mostly, I think, because of all the friends I thought I’d lose if I aired how I really feel. Also because I take really long…
The Church Street bombing was a car bomb attack on 20 May 1983 by Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC), in Pretoria. The bomb exploded on Church Street at 4:30pm…
The hero of the anti-apartheid struggle was not the saint we want him to be. The image of Nelson Mandela as a selfless, humble, freedom fighter turned cheerful, kindly old man, is well established in…
