Archive for June, 2009
Ironically, even though South Africa will be hosting the 2010 Fifa World Cup in less than a year, physical education is deprioritised in schools across the country. The benefits of sport for one’s well-being are disregarded.
This was the opinion of guests at a colloquium hosted by the Social Transformation Programme of the Department of the Premier, on Thursday [...]
Filed under: 2010 World Cup, DEVELOPMENT WORKS, Policy, children, colloquium, education, social transformation, sport, youth | Leave a Comment
Tags: 2010, 2010 Fifa World Cup, colloquium, curriculum, DEVELOPMENT WORKS, drugs, education, evaluation, gangs, grassroots, healthy, physical education, Policy, school, soccer, social transformation, Social Transformation Programme, sport, Stars in their Eyes, team, transformation
Women’s “resistance” to traditional gendered roles performed within the family structure, has led to “new” roles of performance in relation to work, marriage and childcare.
Throughout history certain norms were created determining gender roles. Women were perceived as the primary caregiver and men dominated in the workplace. Within the home these norms were learnt and thus [...]
Filed under: Employment, Family, Gender, Inequality, Policy, feminism, governance, power, rights | Leave a Comment
Tags: autonomy, basic conditions of employment, discrimination, Employment, Family, family responsibility leave, female, feminism, Free, Gender, gendered roles, glass ceiling, Inequality, jobs, maternity leave, Policy, unequal, women, work, working world, workplace
More than a decade ago, Archbishop Desmond Tutu defined Ubuntu as an ethic which is upheld by someone who ‘…has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.’ In short, he described [...]
Filed under: Africa, Asylum seekers, DEVELOPMENT WORKS, NGOs, Philosophy, Refugees, Zimbabwe, basic human right, governance, politics, poverty, ubuntu, xenophobia | Leave a Comment
Tags: Adonis Musati Project, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, asylum seeker, Department of Home Affairs, DEVELOPMENT WORKS, discrimination, ethics, Methodist Church refugee camp, mistreatment, political philosophy, politics, Refugees, ubuntu, xenophobia
If you still think that FLOSS is just something you do after you have brushed your teeth, you have not yet joined the ranks of those realising the benefits and potencial of Free Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS).
“Free” means the software gives you “freedom”, but it is not necessarily always cost free. With FLOSS [...]
Filed under: CBOs, DEVELOPMENT WORKS, Entrepreneurs, NGOs, Small Business, Software, Training, development, education, governance, internet, media, technology | 1 Comment
Tags: CBO, Community Based Organisations, DEVELOPMENT WORKS, education, Entrepreneur, FLOSS, FLOSSnet, Free, Free Libre and Open Source Software, Free Software Foundation, Free Software Movement, freedom, Government, Joomla, Libre, NGO, Non-governmental organisations, Open Source, Open Source Software, OSS, proprietary software, Small Business, Software, source code, Websites
