A four-year project between the Finnish and South African governments aims to provide information and communication technologies to 20 pilot schools in Mpumalanga and the Northern Cape.
As the world celebrated the International Literacy Day on September 8, there is reason for both cheer and despair. Many more children are in schools worldwide as enrolments have risen. Adult literacy has also registered a modest increase. And yet, millions of people are still deprived of this basic human right. Oxfam Great Britain provides an insight into some of the challenges.
The Kikuyu Farmers Field School in Kenya is a school with a difference. And that is not only because it is without walls. More importantly, it enables it students, in this case, farmers, to look at farming as a business where they can produce for their consumption and surplus for income-generation.
Political parties have called for the introduction of an integrity code of ethics and conduct for political parties and their leaders and candidates to promote clean politics.
What did we learn from the World Conference Against Racism in Durban? And how do we prepare for the upcoming annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) later this month in Washington--assuming that in the wake of the tragic terrorist attack that this still goes ahead as scheduled?
Almost 3,500 children who as recently as five months ago were acting as soldiers in Sudan's civil war have returned to their communities and families in southern Sudan with high hopes for a fresh start in life. The move home - completed over the last few days - marked the end of a five-month transition period in which the children were cared for by UNICEF and a coalition of aid groups.
Just after handing a torn plastic bag full of two cents coins to the education ministry officials in protest of a two per cent salary increase, a strong call has been made by unionists to "remove those in power" in order to save the country's education.
Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya has been focussing on community projects that improve the living conditions and survival chances of vulnerable and orphaned children.
Of a 12-million pula regional integration grant signed by USAID in the Botswana's capital Gaborone last week, 6-million pula will help strengthen regional economies through non-governmental organisations.
Hundreds of teachers face being kicked out of the civil service if they refuse to be redeployed to formerly disadvantaged schools as the Namibian government moves to bridge the teacher-pupil ratio.
