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South African wine industry
By SA info reporter on 2010-02-09
South Africa is taking a number of steps to maintain its status as one of the world's most eco-progressive winemaking nations. One of these is the introduction of lighter bottles to help reduce the industry's carbon footprint. The wine industry currently provides direct employment for close on 276 000 people.
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News for Educators
By SA Info reporter on 2010-02-09
Teaching and learning is set to become simpler and more effective in South Africa\'s state schools from 2010, as the government introduces a number of changes to reduce the administrative burden on teachers while providing them with more support.
The changes follow a report by a task team appointed by Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga to investigate the obstacles to implementing the curriculum in South Africa\'s classrooms.
"Our focus is to strengthen curriculum delivery, and thus we have identified those steps that can be taken immediately to streamline delivery, and others that will take slightly longer to implement," Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said in Cape Town this week.
Changes that will come into effect in January 2010 include:
- Discontinuing the use of student portfolios.
- Requiring teachers to keep only one administrative file.
- Reducing the number of subjects in the intermediate phase from eight to six.
- Giving priority to English as a first additional language in the lower grades.
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