Put teacher development first
System-wide improvement in basic education is inextricably linked to increased professionalism.
Green Paper
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Championing education as we did the World Cup
If we were able to rise to the occasion of football’s greatest spectacle, surely we should be able to focus the same energy in improving education.
Foreign ownership of land to be curtailed
Foreign ownership of South African land is set for a radical change in terms of the green paper on land reform approved by the Cabinet this week.
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Follies the NHI should avoid
The frenzy of public debate, suspicion and negativity across the social, economic and ideological divides that has torn South Africans apart.
Mandatory NHI payments on cards
South Africans will not have to make contributions to the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme — yet.
Zuma’s new land trajectory is nothing new, say experts
President Jacob Zuma’s announcement of a "new trajectory for land reform in South Africa" is nothing new, according to trade unionists.
In the mood for a fight
Trevor Manuel has a giant task ahead of the Durban climate change talks and he seems sufficiently angry to take on powerful interest groups.
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Zuma’s remarks put land ownership centre stage
President Zuma’s remarks in Polokwane on foreign land ownership will be clarified in the long awaited Green Paper on Land Reform.
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Mascot ministers
The two ministers at the forefront of economic policy are emblems of the struggle for a dominant ideology.
