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My South Africa
This was first published some time ago, but it is a moving article, and as we approach the festive season, needs some reminding of.
My South Africa is the working-class man who called from the airport to return my wallet without a cent missing. It is the white woman who put all three of her domestic worker’s children through the same school that her own child attended. It is the politician in one of our rural provinces, Mpumalanga, who returned his salary to the government as a statement that standing with the poor had to be more than just a few words. It is the teacher who worked after school hours every day during the public sector strike to ensure her children did not miss out on learning.
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TEACHER SALARIES in SA, how do we compare globally?
By Helmo Preuss
The Varkey Foundation and the University of Sussex has released its latest Global Teacher Status Index for 2018, which gives insights into the world of teaching in 35 countries across the globe.
While South Africa is not covered in the 2018 survey, enough data exists on local educators remuneration compare how local educators are remunerated when compared to their global peers.
Including South Africa in the rankings, it would place in the middle (17th out of 36).
Teacher salaries in South Africa vary greatly depending on where they teach, at what level and whether the school is private or public and what qualifications they have.
For teachers in the public sector, salaries are scaled, with the minimum a low-level teacher can earn being around R110,000 a year, ramping up to over R900,000 for principals and heads of departments.
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Social innovator has his head in the clouds
A story of big dreams and social exchanges.
Just over a year ago, 10,000 meters up, an idea popped in Ronald Bownes’ head. By the time his flight was disembarking, Ronald’s papers were dense with scribbled notes detailing his idea of how to solve unemployment – an idea called dreamXchange.
Although his revelation was sudden, much had been leading up to this point. For 10 years Ronald Bownes has been the director of the non-profit DreamWorker, which has facilitated over 5 million days of work. But even in DreamWorker’s glory there are limitations; their impact is exclusive to the Western Cape and they rely on formal employment (and there aren’t enough jobs).
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Viral Infection
Dengue is ranked by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the most important and fastest growing mosquito-borne viral disease in the world today, causing nearly 500 million infections every year. In the last five decades, dengue has spread from being present in a handful of countries to being endemic in 128 countries, where about 4 billion people live. (http://bit.ly/2DDkYkD, http://bit.ly/2zQpQyp)
Falsity travels like wildfire
Falsity travels like wildfire. A 2018 MIT study examined Twitter from 2006 through 2017 and found that true stories took about six times as long as false stories to reach 1 500 people. The top 1% of false stories were often shared by 1 000 to 100 000 people, while true stories were seldom shared by more than 1 000 people. (Makes sharing Good News stories really tricky ) (https://nyti.ms/2PSbIie)
Source www.Eighty20.co.za
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