PUBLIC WORKS DETOUR
By Carol Paton
Children, everyone agrees, cannot learn properly under trees, in mud classrooms, or while crowded around desks and sitting on the floor. But at present rates of progress the classroom shortage in the worst-affected provinces will take 18 yea...
A QUESTION OF HOW HARD YOU CAN LEAN
By Prakash Naidoo
It is easy to prove corruption, the saying goes, but less easy to prove its absence. Or is it? Any doubt is made manifest in the fraud and corruption trial of Durban businessman Schabir Shaik, who is also the financial adviser to deputy presid...
PRISON PATH LEADS BACK ON ITSELF
By Xolile Bhengu
Fewer than 28% of prisoners in SA participate in rehabilitation programmes, most of which teach menial skills that don't equip them for jobs. Rehabilitation is a key policy of the department of correctional services (DCS), but a lack of manpow...
PRIVATE SECTOR SPLIT OVER REGULATIONS
By Jacqui Pile
Drug companies and pharmacists are split over government's medicine pricing regulations. This has emerged as the politically charged pharmaceutical pricing case went to the constitutional court this week. The split in the private sector came...
