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When and where were you born? Peninsula Hospital, Cape Town, in December 1967. Where did you matriculate? I made a few attempts at this. I was at Heathfield High for most of my…
When and where were you born? I was born in Durban, Natal, Union of South Africa on 14th October 1925. When and where did you matriculate? I matriculated from Durban High School…
When and where were you born? In the late 1960s in Meadowlands, Soweto. When and where did you matriculate? In 1986 from Mmabatho High School. Who was your favourite teacher? At…
When and where were you born? In Witbank, 1939. When and where did you matriculate? I didn’t matriculate. The local school that I went to eventually closed. I did the rest of my…
When and where were you born? In Matolosane, Gauteng, on July 10, 1933. When and where did you matriculate? From Johannesburg Bantu High School, Western Native Township in 1950.…
For 16 years the New Africa Theatre Academy in Sybrand Park, near Athlone in the Western Cape, has been providing students with affordable higher education in the performing…
Growing up in Durban, she started her schooling like most other children until she started to lose her hearing at age seven. She struggled for a while because she wasn’t sure…
If there’s one thing the students at Sommersle Combined will know by the time they’ve left school, it’s the many hardships and obstacles that are thrown their way on a daily…
The beleaguered Pan Africanist Congress’s national congress this weekend at Soweto’s Vista University looks set to be every bit as controversial as its postponed predecessor as…
The evidence that hip-hop has been residing in South Africa for some years now is spray-painted on numerous walls in characteristic graffiti art. But hip-hop is about more than…
Maxwell Nemadzivhanani, the suspended Limpopo chairman of the Pan Africanist Congress, has been instructed to appear before a national disciplinary committee next week at the PAC…
Stanley Mogoba, president of the Pan Africanist Congress, has dissolved the Limpopo provincial executive committee (PEC), the power base of provincial chairperson Maxwell…
Back in 1999, 31 mothers in rural Giyani, Limpopo Province, decided one day that they would no longer sit around another day unemployed and impoverished. Four years later the…
Though 70% of Americans in the United States back their president’s decision to go to war and approve of the way he is handling the situation in Iraq, most expatriates living…
Though 70% of Americans in the United States back their president’s decision to go to war and approve of the way he is handling the situation in Iraq, most expatriates living in…
Relatives gathered at Johannesburg International airport to bid goodbye to loved ones they may never see again as they headed for Iraq to act as human shields. The 35 human…
A Nigerian drug lord once offered Senior Superintendent Ernest Madzhie R1-million to look the other way; the cop stared him straight in the eyes, handcuffed him and escorted him…
Cash-strapped libraries throughout South Africa face fresh financial hardships that could cause many to collapse. Librarians fear that budget cuts and new funding mechanisms will…
