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Mar

2024

Edward Webster: South African intellectual, teacher, activist, a man of great energy and integrity, and the life and soul of any party

Eddie Webster (82), sociologist and emeritus professor at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, who died on 5 March 2024, lived a huge life, applying himself to many different arenas with great energy and insight. KARL VON HOLDT, Senior Researcher, Society Work and Politics Institute, University of the Witwatersrand His achievements are quite extraordinary. He was an intellectual, a teacher, a leader, an activist for social change, a builder of institutions, a rugby player and jogger, a man of great energy and integrity, and the life and soul of any party.…

Apr

2022

By The African Mirror

Indonesian court sentences teacher to death for raping 13 students

WORLD

AN Indonesian court handed down a death sentence to a teacher for raping 13 girls at an Islamic school, upholding an appeal by prosecutors for the death penalty after he had initially received a sentence of life in prison. The case of teacher Herry Wirawan has shocked Indonesia and shone a spotlight on the need to protect children from sexual violence in the country's religious boarding schools. After he was sentenced to life in jail by a court in the city of Bandung in February, prosecutors who had called for the death penalty filed an appeal. "(We) hereby punish the…

Jun

2021

By The African Mirror

Farewell Jabu Mabuza, a great teacher, amazing and good quality human being

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

PROFESSOR BONANG MOHALE Dr. Jabulane Albert Mabuza is my boss! We had persuaded him and he ultimately agreed to be the single face of big business as the president of both Business Unity SA (Busa) and the CEO Initiative as well as chair of Business Leadership SA (BLSA). He, in turn, later personally strongly persuaded me to come out of my early 're-tyrement' at age 55, to come and help be BLSA CEO, an organisation that was founded in 1960, even before I was born! At its inception, BLSA had two primary purposes, to defend apartheid and sanctions-bursting. The two…