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What’s the big difference between the youth of 1976 and the youth today? Some say the 1976 youth were disciplined and fought for truth while today’s youth are indulged and into nothing more than labels. But everyone will agree that a major difference is that the youth of today have more choices. Gugu Nxumalo, chief […]
How old are you and what grade are you in? I am 18 years old and currently in Grade 12 at Lyttleton Manor in Pretoria. When and how did you first realise your passion for words? Have you always been a good public speaker? I have always been interested in languages and even studied French […]
Where and when did you matriculate? From Gandhi Desai High School in Durban in 1966. What was your favourite subject? My favourite subject was mathematics as it was both stimulating and challenging. Who was your favourite teacher? My favourite teacher was Mr Hasim, who taught me biology. He had a passion for his subject, and […]
When and where did you matriculate? From Mafori-Mphahlele in Soweto, in 1996. Did you have a favourite teacher? My geography teacher, Bonolo Seolonyane. She is an angel, you know. All the learners liked her. She always brought a stick with her to class but it didn’t threaten or scare any of us. She was always […]
Girls need education to be able to participate fully in society. This was the message that came out of the Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. A significant step in the right direction taken by African leaders was the creation of the Girls Education Movement (Gem), launched first in Uganda […]
An unlikely place to find a technology training centre is at the top of a hill in Limpopo which is home to more monkeys than people. But educators at Ramaano village, who had previously not even had access to a typewriter, now have a technology centre where they can plan lessons and learn improved ways […]
When the kwaito group Trompies produced their song Fohloza – in which they sing the praises of full-figured women – they could have been thinking of teenage girls who starve themselves, sometimes to death, in an attempt to look beautiful and sexy. These teenage girls define beauty by the shape and size of the body […]