South Africa: How Training Can Prepare Teachers for Diversity in Their Classrooms: Teachers have been shaping lives for centuries. Everyone remembers their favourite teachers. ……
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South Africa: New Partnerships Are Needed to Arrest Economic Malaise: [The Conversation Africa] South Africa’s Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan presented his 2016 mid-term budget on the back of a crisis in higher education funding characterised by widespread national student protests. The Conversation Africa’s business and economy editor Sibonelo Radebe asked Steve Koch to weigh the minister’s speech. ……
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Tide Begins to Turn Against South Africa’s President and His Supporters: [The Conversation Africa] There are growing signs the tide has indeed begun to turn against South African President Jacob Zuma and his supporters. The politics of patronage is no longer working as it used to when Zuma’s defenders could be rewarded for their efforts with promotion, tenders, or a lucrative revolving door to corporate directorships. ……
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South Africans Learn That the Law Can Be a Double-Edged Sword: [The Conversation Africa] South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority charged the country’s finance minister Pravin Gordhan and two of his former colleagues at the tax authority, Ivan Pillay and Oupa Magashule, with fraud last month. The charge was widely criticised as baseless and politically motivated, amid allegations of state capture. It sent the currency into a nosedive and wiped billions off the stock market. This week, the NPA withdrew the charges on the eve of the trio’s court appearance. Politics and society editor, Thab ……
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Family of Brit killed in South Africa face 6-month wait for answers…: Banker James Starkey may have been killed by a gang, but his family face at least a six-month wait for answers. Police now believe the killing could have been ordered by a gang, who gave Mr Starkey a drugs overdose in a botched robbery, but delays at state mortuaries are holding up a vital postmortem report. ……
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South Africa: Mantashe, Jonas, Mkhize Not Being Investigated – Hawks: The Hawks have rubbished claims that they are conducting a investigation into Deputy Finance Minister Mcebisi Jonas, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe, and ANC treasurer Zweli Mkhize. Hawks spokesperson Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi dismissed as a “distortion” a Sunday Times report that the trio were being investigated for not reporting the R600m bribe and the offer of finance minister post Ajay Gupta allegedly made to Jonas in March. ……
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South Africa: Start-Up Uses Innovative Approach to Catch the Pirates Online: [Balancing Act] London -Piracy plagues Africa and TV and film markets but particularly piracy within the industry. People take screeners and before you know where you are they have been uploaded . to the Internet.Russell Southwood spoke to G-J Rooyen, Custostech who has developed a new approach to cracking this age-old problem. ……
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South Africa: Zuma’s Survival Strategy: [The Conversation Africa] The withdrawal of charges against South Africa’s Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan by the country’s National Prosecuting Authority brings to mind events in 2008 when a judge quashed corruption charges against current President Jacob Zuma. ……
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South Africa: State Capture – Parliament Should Summon Brian Molefe to Testify, Under Oath: [DA] The DA will request that Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises summons Eskom CEO, Brian Molefe, as a matter of urgency so that he can tell the truth to South Africa about his relationship with the Guptas, under oath. ……
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South Africa: Reserve Bank Deputy Re-Appointed: [SAnews.gov.za] Pretoria -President Jacob Zuma has re-appointed Francois Groepe as the Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank for a period of five years with effect from 1 January 2017. ……
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