"You know what Hillbrow and Yeoville are like," says a resident of Katlehong, glibly summarising the moral character of places he must have visited about twice in the past decade: "Full of criminals." But naturally: mainstream Jozi circles — the Melville café, the Soweto shebeen — have turned both names into abuses, conjoining them to a list of African cities similarly revered.

<i>TheTeacher</i> looks at how laws regulating the textbook industry are failing education. The education system is paying too much money for books and is enriching the publishing industry. The cost of books in general is high in South Africa compared to other countries and this is affecting the development of South Africa into a reading nation.