UNESCO’s World Inequality Database on Education shows that, globally, children being taught in a language they speak at home are 30% more likely to read with understanding by the end of primary school than those who do not speak the language of instruction. Evidence also shows that learning in first language or mother tongue education improves children’s social skills.
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Despite police minister Bheki Cele’s recent pronouncements that police would “intensify operations to detect and remove illegal firearms,” there has been no further investigation into the sources of these firearms or the allegations that Durban Central police members were running guns.
We would like to once again urge guests not to attempt to cross any bridges that are overflowing as the dangers of being washed away remain high. Guests are further advised not to open or travel on any roads which have been closed and not to use gravel road.
The National Association of Artisanal Miners (NAAM) is advocating for the speeding up of the implementation on formalization and decriminalization of artisanal mining in SA.
IN a heartfelt appeal based on his years of visiting the devastated area, as Secretary-General and previously as head of the UN refugee agency UNHCR, Antonio…
THE Government of the Republic of Zambia in partnership with the Southern African Development Community Fund for Water Infrastructure and Basic Sanitation (SADC Water Fund)…
Our key findings were that environmental issues such as air, land and water pollution which impacts on human and livestock health, soil and water quality were not adequately dealt with by the law , the mines or by the regulator; communities are living in an unsafe environment, relating to blasting close to houses and the tremors experienced as a result of blasting, as well as concern about the rising crime levels within communities.
The community was removed from the houses built by SAFCOL in 1973 and when the Komati Land Company took over from SAFCOL, the houses of the community members not working for SAFCOL were demolished.
The Department of Health recently announced plans to conduct medical tests on former gold mineworkers who were employed on South African mines between 1965 and…