What can I say… http://academicearth.org/
The site aggregates some of the amazing web video resources of lectures from the best universities and institutes in the world.
Who can imagine the technology and human endeavours that will be sparked by sharing such a wealth of experience and knowledge freely with anyone with the internet. A truly […]
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Sian and I were at the SANG (South African National Gallery for those who never did Art at high school) this weekend, getting a good dose of culture, after walking around in the Gardens.
I’ll keep my rant on why museums and galleries funded by taxpayers money should be open to the public for free for […]
Filed under: Africa, Art, Cape Town, Commentary, Corruption, Design, Education, Media, Society, Zuma by Andrew la Grange
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South Africa’s children need to have better educations. They need the resources and good teaching that can forge young people into contributors to society, and those who can excel on the world stage.
What should not happen is using children as fodder for political protest and gain. Whilst some might cite 1976 as an example […]
Filed under: Corruption, Education, Ideas, Language, Law, Philosophy, Politics, Rant, Society, Zuma, ethics by Andrew la Grange
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During the Great Depression, and afterwards during the New Deal (which could be argued was pretty depressing for many) Franklin Roosevelt spoke to the American people with the so-called ‘Fireside chats’. I think that sort of direct passive communication between the leader of a nation and its citizens is a good thing.
Thabo Mbeki may […]
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Google’s blog is highlighting today the importance of World Book Day and The Literacy Project.
Its shocking to think that 1 in 5 adults is illiterate. But as I reminded someone at a party on Saturday night, even if the WHOLE world was literate, a world without books is useless. And Google is doing good […]
Filed under: Art, Commentary, Education, Ideas, Language, Media, Philosophy by Andrew la Grange
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Jacob Zuma, and his supporters, in their broad sweeping populism are making a lot of the right noises about crime. While defending the right to life, for the first time in a long time, Zuma has reminded South Africans that when citizens attempt to take away that right from others then they must be punished, […]
Filed under: Commentary, Corruption, Decision Theory, Education, Ideas, Language, Law, Philosophy, Politics, Society, ethics by Andrew la Grange
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Al Gore speaks about the paralysis of democracy in his latest TED talk, as he expresses his optimism and frustration at the global challenge of climate crisis.
After watching the video yesterday, today I thought about that paralysis, especially in light of the seeming disconnect between the actions of my own national leader, Thabo Mbeki, […]
Filed under: Commentary, Decision Theory, Economy, Education, Gender, Ideas, Language, Law, Philosophy, Politics, Society, ethics by Andrew la Grange
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I was reading The Times article on the UFS’s second video in as many weeks. Yesterday, I was talking to friends about what was happening at Kovsies. I think it can be summated in a segment of the article:
Meanwhile, Khaya Koko, 20, a second-year bachelor of commerce undergraduate and nephew of Emma Koko — […]
Filed under: Commentary, Education, Ideas, Law, Politics, Society, ethics by Andrew la Grange
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Sandile Memela on Thought Leader is proposing that whites need not apologise for Apartheid.
Just a quick note on what he proposes, namely white acknowledgment of apartheid, and a multi racial organisation to fight racism. There is money for soccer and rugby, but no money for an organisation to address racial thinking through education.
For a […]
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You can’t feel sorry for the Shaiks. This family of liars, bribers and theives are the very antithesis of hard work and effort.
Mo and Schabir have their own problems, and now former Doctor, Chippy Shaik has had “his” doctoral thesis judged plagiarised, and his degree taken away from him. He copied the original […]
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Mbeki’s Kremlinistic attitude to information flowing from the Office of the Presidency has no doubt failed our country and its people. No place is that more true than the handling of the security sections of our government, particularly the report from Judge Khampepe on what should be done to rectify the current security situation, vis-a-vis […]
Filed under: Commentary, Corruption, Crime, Education, Ideas, Law, Politics, Society by Andrew la Grange
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The ANC has the Freedom Charter on their website: http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/charter.html
Clever how it’s filed under /history/, I suppose that’s because to the ANC, the charter that served as the manifesto of the struggle for equality and reconciliation, is exactly that, a shard of history, as quaint as the Forum in Rome, and just as irrelevant to […]
Filed under: Crime, Education, Ideas, Law, Politics, Society, work by Andrew la Grange
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Self proclaimed Marxist-Leninist Lazola Ndamase, former SRC chair of DUT (Durban University of Technology) [which by the way is closed because of student protests and over 175 million rands in unpaid student fees, the boycott of which is no doubt the product of such political ‘progressives’ such as Ndamase], addresses pervasive racism in South Africa […]
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I am a huge advocate for Open Courseware, and have been a fan ever since I discovered MIT’s Open Courseware site after I left Stellenbosch in 2003, since it helped me with the subjects I was doing through UNISA, as well as in other subject areas which I want to explore.
Today, I discovered Yale’s […]
Filed under: Education, Ideas by Andrew la Grange
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