Ntuthuko Maphumulo As South Africa approaches the 25th anniversary of June 16 1976, two schools have been involved in a project to get pupils to understand what National Youth Day is all about. Project coordinators say that instead of focusing on periodic workshops about the day, their project centres on educating the youth about June […]

Numerous anti-crime strategies have failed in the Western Cape, but for the first time there is hope that one will work, Marianne Merten reports The foundations for the first public park are being laid in gang-ridden Manenberg township on the Cape Flats. Although the green spot is in the middle of the Clever Kids gang’s […]

Sipho Seepe no blows barred Higher education has not escaped the post-1990 debates about societal transformation. In a short space of time we have had conferences, commissions, task teams and the passage of legislation to effect transformation of the system. Unfortunately, the debates have focused on the crudest and most visible vestiges and symbols of […]

Makhaya Jwara Deke When Rains Come by Mzi Mahola (Carapace) Telegraph to the Sky by Sandile Dikeni (Gecko) Mzi Mahola’s childhood in the outskirts of Alice in the Eastern Cape and early years as a boxer must have had an impact on the development of his voice as a poet. Village and outdoor life must […]

Roshila Pillay The budget for the North West provincial Department of Transport, Roads and Public Works has been trimmed to such an extent that hospitals cannot do basic maintenance work. More than R6-million has been budgeted for professional and special services in Mmabatho, where the provincial government is based. In comparison, only R652 000 and […]

Belinda Anderson Mediswitch began in the Usko stable, now Bytes Technology, and although its founders were excited about the prospects of the business, it never broke even under the old management. But having moved aggressively, it now more than dominates its space, and recently teamed up with one of its big competitors PQ Africa’s QEDI. […]

Marianne Merten The Cape Town unicity committee established to vet public submissions on renaming two of the city’s oldest streets has declined to deal with fraudulent petitions and barred the media from having access to the documents for now. The Mail & Guardian reported last week that many of the petitions purporting to support the […]

Roshila Pillay ‘The Ray Ban advert with the vampires,” drools Eloise Hendricks (19) when asked what her favourite advertisement is. A business communications student at Pretoria Technikon, Hendricks cannot afford the Ray Ban sunglasses. However, she says the Ray Ban advert has had a major impact on her choice of sunglasses. Many students agree that […]

Barry Streek, Glenda Daniels and David Macfarlane Coleman Andrews offered to resign eight months ago as CEO of South African Airways (SAA), because he was frustrated with government and Transnet interference in the running of the airline but he was persuaded to stay on for longer by former Transet managing director Saki Macozoma. The Mail […]

Khadija Magardie Poor salaries, lack of adequate training and increasing attacks on its members continue to plague the ranks of the South African Police Service (SAPS). These issues, with the threat posed by privatisation to workers in the public service, dominated the agenda of the fourth national congress of the country’s largest police union, the […]