6+ hour, 25+ 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…...

15+ hour, 17+ 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, 10+ 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, 10+ 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, 9+ 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…...

5+ day, 6+ 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…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (873+ words) 1972 — Cliff Drysdale and Briton Roger Taylor win the US Open men’s doubles crown at Forest Hills in New York, beating Australians Owen Davidson and John Newcombe 6-4 7-6 6-3 in the final. Taylor and Newcombe had won the title the previous year. Drysdale…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (590+ words) Patients at one of Khayelitsha’s busiest health facilities have endured broken and inadequate toilets for months, with some forced to queue for facilities at the trauma unit and others having to use a toilet without a door. The Site B…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (334+ words) As the local government elections on November 4 rumble towards us, I can’t help wondering whether we are not getting a little carried away with the notion that they will somehow be a “defining” moment for the country. Of course, politicians…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (266+ words) Statistics are a vital part of South Africa’s crime-fighting armoury, but even when they are down, as the most recent figures released by the SAPS are, South Africans do not feel much safer in their homes and public spaces. For…...