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/ 14 December 2005
South Africas legacy of photojournalism has produced some of the most enduring images of our time.
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/ 14 December 2005
By the time Stevens* parents came to Margaret Logan at Rosemeade Private School, they were at their wits end. Their son had been expelled from three schools. He was doing drugs, despised authority and had a criminal record pending. Even Logan, who had been a remedial teacher for 25 years, was intimidated.
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/ 14 December 2005
Its a debacle — thats the judgement of the countrys largest teachers union on the governments attempt to make schooling more affordable by introducing no-fee schools next year.
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/ 14 December 2005
Most of us are aware of the simmering row around genetically modified (GM) food and crops. But the arguments are leaving general confusion in their wake because of the deeply polarised views put forth by those who promote, and those who are cautious about, these products.
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/ 14 December 2005
Tohe Kokstad Concerto might not roll off the tongue quite like the Brandenburg Concerto, but one cant help wondering what Johann Sebastian Bach, the 18th-century composer of the latter, would have come up with had he been commissioned to create the former. Would the rumbling trucks, sentinel-like electricity pylons and dry, dusty plains of the southern interior of KwaZulu-Natal have inspired him to create something critics would immediately praise for its harsh beauty? And would the quasi-Swiss quaintness of the more mountainous inland towns, such as Matatiele, have tempered this with flowing, pastoral romance?
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/ 14 December 2005
<i>There once was a man with really tough feet. When a car rolled over it he felt nothing. When broken glass cut it, he still felt nothing.
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/ 14 December 2005
South Africa has an estimated 250 tons of obsolete pesticides within its borders, with more unaccounted for either in buried containers or scattered across its agricultural land. The reasons for the accumulation of stockpiles in developing countries vary, but include aggressive sales practices by the pesticide industry, inappropriate procurement and central purchasing policies.
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/ 14 December 2005
Steven Wooke takes a swig from a bottle of Heineken as his left hand rests on a small table, his fingers spread out like a fan of playing cards. He’s getting a manicure — or hand detailing, as the salon calls it — and it’s a form of pampering the 24-year-old information technology manager has learned to enjoy.
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/ 14 December 2005
Is anyone going to mourn the impending death of the word ”spinster”? It is described in the Cambridge dictionary as referring to ”a woman who is not married, especially a woman who is no longer young and seems unlikely ever to marry”. In Finnish, Bulgarian and Arabic the equivalent translates literally as ”old maid”.
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/ 14 December 2005
On a Sunday morning, academic star Temple Grandin, decked out in her signature black cowgirl garb and well-tooled boots, is at a table in a Nashville hotel lobby enjoying a light breakfast of fruit and juice, while some diners nearby are tucking into more substantial fare: here a plate of bacon and eggs, there a minute steak.