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In the third decade of the millennium, there is an increasing and solid presence of institutions and organisations, ideas and bodies of knowledge that push and pull the country back towards the alignment with the West that so guided Cold War foreign policy and orthodoxy.

The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (SADTU) has noted with contempt attempts to revive the tired allegations that SADTU is controlling education departments.  This allegation was first made in 2016 when SADTU was wrongly and falsely accused of being involved in the selling of Educator posts. Despite the many allegations made against SADTU, the Ministerial Task Team (MTT) appointed by the Minister of Basic Education could not produce any shred of evidence to support these alle...

When the average growth in the last three years was just 2.5%, how does that make us the fastest growing country? They only tell you what has happened in the last 2 years; they are not taking into account what happened in FY21 on account of their mistakes.

Nonprofits that help local economies thrive are doing the work needed to promote individual liberty and counter authoritarianism across the globe. Philanthropy should invest in them rather that pouring more funds into big government programs.

News and Press Release in English on India about Protection and Human Rights; published on 2 Jun 2023 by Caritas

A 2016 ministerial task team found that, like in Mexico, the country’s largest teacher union, the South African Democratic Teachers' Union (Sadtu), ‘is in de facto charge of the management, administration and priorities of education’ in ‘six and possibly more of the nine provinces’. The general silence at the shocking state of our education system has, thankfully, been punctuated by the results of the 2021 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (Pirls...

A 2016 ministerial task team found that SA’s largest teacher union, Sadtu, ‘is in de facto charge of the management, administration and priorities of education’ in ‘six and possibly more of the nine provinces’.

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