Monday 26 October, 2015 - 15:10
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) weighed in on the university fees protests by saying it is ‘desirous that normality of classes‚ learning and teaching is restored’.
The commission also promised to release findings and recommendations of its own probe into “factors that either constrain or enhance levels and speed of transformation in institutions of higher learning in the country”.
Monday 19 October, 2015 - 11:23
The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says the World Food Day is about raising global awareness on partnerships that are needed to eradicate hunger in the world.
FAO representative, Dr Tobias Takavarasha, says that the world celebrates World Food Day on Friday in an effort to not only take time to actively help those who are starving, but to also help in eradicating poverty and malnutrition.
Dr Takavarasha says efforts need to be made to remember the poor, to distribute food and to teach everyone about nutrition.
Wednesday 14 October, 2015 - 10:48
Inner-City Housing Inclusivity Consultative Meeting
Conception of the inner-city housing inclusivity consultative meeting
‘Revolting Subjects’ is a groundbreaking account of social abjection in contemporary Britain, exploring how particular groups of people are figured as revolting and how they in turn revolt against their abject subjectification. The book utilises a number of high-profile and in-depth case studies - including 'chavs', asylum seekers, Gypsies and Travellers, and the 2011 London riots - to examine the ways in which individuals negotiate restrictive neoliberal ideologies of selfhood.
Featuring everything from sports stadiums to shopping malls, hundreds of new cities in China stand empty, with hundreds more set to be built by 2030. Between now and then, the country's urban population will leap to over one billion, as the central government kicks its urbanization initiative into overdrive. In the process, traditional social structures are being torn apart, and a rootless, semi-displaced, consumption orientated culture rapidly taking their place.
Monday 12 October, 2015 - 15:03
Britain and the United States have reportedly launched a programme to rescue at least 650 000 Zimbabwean hunger victims, with the two countries pledging to provide up to US$43m for food aid.
This came as the World Food Programme (WFP) says in August that around 1.5 million Zimbabweans were expected to go hungry this year after a dramatic fall in maize production.
Monday 12 October, 2015 - 13:55
Paul Polman, in an article titled, ‘MDG [Millennium Development Goals] Success - Accelerating Action and Partnering for Impact’, says in the year 2000, members of the United Nations General Assembly made an historic commitment - to halve poverty by 2015.
Polman, who is the chief executive officer of Unilever, states that, “We have made good progress in many areas, of which we can be proud,” adding that millions of lives have been saved and millions of families now have access to clean water.
Monday 12 October, 2015 - 13:04
Even though South Africa came second last out of 140 on the World Economic Forum (WEF) rankings in mathematics and science, local education authorities rubbished the rankings saying they were flawed.
However, education experts say the rankings are a close reflection of where education is in South Africa.
Educationalist, Graeme Bloch, says South Africa needs to up its game not only in mathematics and science but in all subjects.
Bloch adds: “The rankings are pretty close, learners need to be pushed and work hard in maths, science and humanities.”
Monday 12 October, 2015 - 12:00
Minister in the Presidency, Jeff Radebe, has called for a renewed implementation of the National Development Plan (NDP).
Addressing the AGM of the Black Management Forum‚ Radebe‚ who is the chairperson of the National Planning Commission‚ set out the successes and the failures of the government since 1994.
Radebe emphasises that the implementation of the NDP would improve South Africa’s prospects‚ and set out “six interlinked priorities of the NDP‚ which serve as the pillars of the Plan.
Wednesday 7 October, 2015 - 10:18
