There is dignity in being allowed to 'die like a dog'

Authors of nonfiction books on assisted suicide risk imprisonment, especially if the book is published in New Zealand, writes Barbara Erasmus.

SA's home-grown thrills and capers

Barbara Erasmus looks at the ABCs of crime fiction, South African style.

A trumpeting success

There's an air of expectation in the Johannesburg City Hall as the audience settles down prior to the arrival of the evening's star attraction, Sergei Nakariakov. An attractive dark-haired young man in trendy clothes, Nakariakov looks as if he could be a contestant in Idols. But he is no short-term pop sensation. The young Russian trumpeter has been hailed as a musical genius in the class of Paganini and Caruso.

A trumpeting success

There's an air of expectation in the Johannesburg City Hall as the audience settles down prior to the arrival of the evening's star attraction, Sergei Nakariakov. An attractive dark-haired young man in trendy clothes, Nakariakov looks as if he could be a contestant in Idols. But he is no short-term pop sensation.

Sustainable solutions

A diverse group has gathered at the Naziema Isaacs library in Khayelitsha outside Cape Town in response to a notice about a writers' workshop.

Taking stock of future growth

It's 8.30am on a damp, Saturday winter morning in Cape Town, but still the lecture room at Share Direct is full. The people in the audience don't look like stockbrokers in suits and ties. They're ordinary people -- a teacher, a travel agent, a construction worker. What they all have in common, though, is the realisation that each will need to get the most out of their current income if they are to enjoy financial freedom in the years that lie ahead.
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