The government is baffled by the mystery of the disappearing matriculants. While the pass rate climbs, the number of pupils writing matric is dropping drastically.
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Archive for December, 2001
An intoxicated Grahamstown mother allegedly fell asleep on top of her 11-day-old baby girl who subsequently suffocated, Eastern Cape police said on Saturday.
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Two French holidaymakers were brutally attacked by a group of robbers
while sunbathing at a fashionable Plettenberg beach on Christmas Day.
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Police are searching for a gang of men following a multi-million rand
armed robbery of dollars, diamonds and jewellery from a cargo depot
near Johannesburg International Airport.
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Dec
No bursaries for top two
Both Gauteng’s top two matric candidates have been unable to obtain a bursary for further studies.
Riaan Lizamore and Hansie Janse van Rensburg, both from Florida
Ho�rskool in Roodepoort, have been told time and time again that they
are not “suitable candidates” for the bursaries on offer.
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Two Soweto women were arrested on Monday in connection with child
trafficking after police found a 10-month-old baby who was reported
missing in Durban in September.
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Stories of primary school teachers taking matric mathematics and biblical studies educators teaching matric science are not unusual. Between 70% and 80% of KwaZulu-Natal high school teachers are not qualified to teach these subjects.
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South African children suffered again through a weekend of child abuse incidents, with dozens of rapes been reported across the country.
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The Labour Department on Thursday expressed “disbelief, dismay and revulsion” at reports that twin babies died after their mother gave birth to them while allegedly locked overnight in a factory at Newcastle in KwaZulu-Natal.
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Statistics show that the reported incidence of child rape and attempted rape increased by 8,5 percent from 1996 to 2000, says Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete. In a written reply to a question tabled in the National Assembly by African Christian Democratic Party leader Kenneth Meshoe, Tshwete said there were 19 755 reported cases of rape and attempted rape of children under 18 years in 1996. This had increased to 21 438 in 2000. In another written reply to a separate question, he said the reported incidence of rape and attempted rape of adult women increased from 30726 to 31112 (1,3 percent) over the same period.
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