Nine out of 10 South African teenagers in drug rehabilitation will revert to their addictions within a year, an expert working with young people said on Friday. ”The drug rehabilitation system is not geared towards teenagers,” Quintin van Kerken, spokesperson for Bokatie, a teenage rehabilitation centre in Johannesburg, said.

South Africans have a growing appetite for newspapers, but the vast menu of magazines is not as palatable, according to the newly released Amps 2005 readership figures. However, the print industry, ”as well as its brothers and cousins in neighbouring media, is alive and well”, Starcom MD Gordon Patterson said on Friday.

Surviving offenders, who held four Zonderwater prison staff hostage on Sunday, have been taken to Pretoria’s C-Max high security prison, a source in the Zonderwater prison said. ”They are not here anymore and I have heard that Ngobese, the leader, is dead. He had a firearm,” said control room operator Solomon Masilela.