For one Cape Town school on the Cape Flats, this is what schooling and learning could look like - in freshly painted technicolour - under the Covid-19 lockdown Level 3.LIVE | All the latest coronavirus and lockdown updatesLast week, the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) issued a long, exhaustive explanation of steps schools need to…
Glenda Gray row: Science body accuses health dept DG of 'abuse of power'Briefing the media on Monday, the party said regular processes are suspended when funding is dispersed under disaster relief and emergency provisions of law, which has, in the past, resulted in massive wasteful expenditure, with no results."This inspector-general would differ from the auditor-general (AG),…
#MothersDay2020 to the women who are raising a nation, world shakers & history makers.Women raising children, heading households, educating youth, empowering women, at ECD Centres, old age homes, on the frontline as health workers as we fight COVID-19.You are the ROCK! pic.twitter.com/x5uV1TijKM— Basetsana Kumalo (@basetsanakumalo) May 10, 2020We went to school with holes in our…
Kataza the baboon. Facebook / Baboon Matters The City of Cape Town has asked the public not to feed a baboon that has relocated to Tokai. The baboon, known as Kataza or SK11, is slowly being integrated into the Tokai troop. Video footage, however, shows humans feeding Kataza. The City of Cape Town has requested that Kataza…
As SA Rugby moves to determine which franchises will go to Europe in future, Rassie Erasmus has noted several potential benefits for the local game should that route be followed.The national director of rugby believes the high world rankings of Wales, Ireland and Scotland mean PRO Rugby is competitive and that fans will eventually identify…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…