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Stage lights turn on for deaf learners

It’s the first lesson on a Tuesday morning in the school hall of the Dominican School for Deaf Children in Wynberg, Cape Town, and the sound of feet stomping on wood, hands…

Talking poverty

Hearings on poverty will take the people’s grievances to the corridors of power, writes Patrick Burnett.

Breaking the language barrier

Although the xenophobic attacks that swept through the country recently were directed at foreign nationals – poor Africans in particular – the violence also focused attention on…

Drawing a line on poverty

”You will hear everyone saying ‘food, can we have food?” It’s about no food and no money to buy food. There is no work.” That’s the message Eunice Klaasens, a 63-year-old…

Blazing the funding trail

When Scottsdene High School headmaster Karel Cupido was asked what he would do if tens of thousands of rand were donated to his school, he might have chosen computers or…

Seasons of hunger

The Breede River Valley in the Western Cape is known as a fertile farming area that hosts internationally renowned vineyards, picturesque fruit orchards and tourist farm stalls,…

A not so happy new year

Many students in the Eastern Cape began 2000 with no textbooks Four to one: Headmaster of Benjamin Mahlasela High school Siphiwo Baninzi (left) says four pupils crowd around one…