In just 10 years arguably one of the most highly politicised generations of youth has given way to one in which apathy is unprecedented and disenchantment with politics is acute. On Thursday the Independent Electoral Commission revealed that just below half the young people eligible to register to vote had done so during the final registration drive last weekend.

As Timothy Mlenje knows to his cost, Breast Cancer Awareness Month concerns men as well as women. Mlenje (57), of Berea in Johannesburg, had no idea that breast cancer could affect men, but today the scars on the left-hand side of his chest bear testimony to the existence of male breast cancer.

Students entering tertiary study next year will walk into a higher education landscape vastly different from the one South Africa has known for decades. From January, familiar institutional names will cease to exist. Where before you might have enrolled at Unisa or the University of Natal or the University of Durban-Westville, you’ll now be registering at … Well, no one knows just yet.

Rural schools are alienated from their communities and play no role in local development, according to preliminary results of a groundbreaking research study, a key finding of which is that the education policy community does not understand the problems of rural education.

Primedia and AME prove that corporate giants and the South African film industry are not perfect casting Andrew Worsdale Joseph Losey (director of The Go- Between, The Servant and many other fine movies) once said, “I am frequently told that my films don’t make money. Since I have averaged one film a year for 30 […]