Galway comes out of its shell during festival
Buck Maguire goes to Ireland for the 52nd annual Galway Oyster Festival and rates it as the best entertainment in the world.... |
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Universities running on empty
Departments of key disciplines at universities and tecknikons across the country are running into trouble.... |
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Reporters accused of stealing online info
Reporters from an online French magazine were booted from the world's premier computer security conference after reportedly hacking a press room network.... |
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West Saharawi waits, SA 'concerned'
The United Nations promised them an election years ago, and now President Thabo Mbeki says South Africa will follow up on the matter.... |
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Latest results - August 6, 2008
All the sport results compiled for today.... |
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Bad news for tenants
Schubart Park and Kruger Park tenants have been informed that their lifts cannot be repaired.... |
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The colour of stigma
Nokuzola Mfiki was ridiculed, vilified and called names by neighbours - such that there was only one way out...... |
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Nasa lander may have found toxic substance
The Phoenix Mars Lander may have detected a potentially toxic substance used in rocket fuel, in soil samples taken from the Red Planet.... |
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Steytler shows her class
A borrowed horse and half a chance could see schoolgirl Bianca Steytler jet off to Belgium.... |
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Burn-out forces principals to leave
Two experienced principals have resigned to work in the United Arab Emirates, following a combined 41 years of "burning out" in the education system.... |
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Teacher exodus
Highly-skilled teachers are leaving the country in their droves, sparking fears that appalling working conditions, poor salaries and poaching could spark an education crisis.... |
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Teacher held for extortion
A 33-year-old Johannesburg school teacher has been arrested at a primary school in Marlboro.... |
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Teachers 'as drunk as skunks'
Hundreds of visiting schoolchildren, whose parents believe they are staying in Durban hotels, are having to sleep in their buses as their teachers have pocketed their holiday money.... |
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Malicious Mxit lists create cruel copy-cats
A copy-cat defamatory list on cellphone instant messaging service Mxit appears to be circulating among school pupils in Newlands, Durban.... |
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Watch where you point that curser
In a practice referred to as "typo squatting" people not connected to campaigns can buy rights to Internet addresses with candidates' names misspelled.... |
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Google not happy with AOL investment
Google believes its $1-billion investment in advertising partner AOL is souring, the web giant disclosed in a quarterly report.... |
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State to spend millions on digital TV
South Africa will spend about R2,45-billion on subsidising the shift to digital television for five million poor households by 2011, says government.... |
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Xbox 360: Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Aubrey Kilian gets his hands on the new Enemy Territory: Quake Wars video game and can't seem to let go of the control.... |
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Magnify your world
You'll be hard-pressed to find anything more stimulating for the aspirant scientist than Digital Blue's QX5 USB computer microscope. ... |
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State owes citizens millions of rands
Government departments collectively owe more than R27-million to citizens who have successfully sued them but have never been paid.... |
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