Category: June 2016
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Youth Day
South Africa’s Youth Day On 16 June 1976, 40 years ago youth mobilized and demonstrated, initially in Soweto but it spread through out the country. Youth boycotted apartheid education and marched against tyranny in education. Afrikaans was being forced into schools not just as a subject but also as a medium of education. The quality…
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Clear Thinking
Are YOU Living from Inside OUT or Outside IN? Mike George takes a deeper look at the mistakes we learn to make about how life works. Are you an outside inner or an inside outer? It seems the vast majority of us live from ‘outside in’ as opposed to ‘inside out’. But we don’t know it! Few are…
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Government to launch the “Worlds Biggest” HIV and AIDS Treatment Campaign.
Government to launch the “Worlds Biggest” HIV and AIDS Treatment Campaign. The National Department of Health has announced it will be implementing “the worlds biggest” HIV and AIDS Treatment Campaign where everyone who lives with the HIV virus will be enrolled into the anti-retroviral program irrespective of their CD4 count. Government to launch the “Worlds…
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Non-violent and Moral Development at the Early Childhood level
Non-violent and Moral Development at the Early Childhood level. Kanya Padayachee In our society it just isn’t possible for children to avoid exposure to violence. Newspapers remind us of that every day. Many children experience violence in their homes or neighbourhoods, out-of-control ways that stop short of violence, but are still scary and troubling. Almost…
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“Life, power, politics, social change and time: Time is greater than space” – Pope Francis
“Life, power, politics, social change and time: Time is greater than space” – Pope Francis A constant tension exists between fullness and limitation. Fullness evokes the desire for complete possession, while limitation is a wall set before us. Broadly speaking, “time” has to do with fullness as an expression of the horizon which constantly opens…
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SA postpones nuclear deal as court case looms
SA postpones nuclear deal as court case looms Environmental lobbyist groups, Earthlife Africa Johannesburg and the South African Faith Communities Environment Institution (SAFCEI) filed an urgent application in court in order to stop a possible intergovernmental framework agreement between the Department of Energy and Russia, China, South Korea and the USA on the country’s planned…