South Africans are not scared to tell us that even the president doesn’t want us here; that we should go back to where we belong.
Somalians and Ethiopians living in Khayelitsha say that they are a target 24 hours a day, while young locals say that jealousy triggers the violence.
It’s about much more than pin-stripes and requires business and other leaders to open up social and economic connections between the world of plenty.
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/ 24 February 2006
For a campaign whose tagline is "talk about it", retracting the billboard was a bitter pill to swallow. It wasn’t so much about loss of face as trying to reconcile the public response with the concerns expressed by organisations within the sector. Last weekend in the town of Paul Roux in the eastern Free State, 1 000 parents and children met in response to loveLife’s call to face HIV.
This year, two hundred thousand young people from every part of South Africa participated in the country’s largest inter-school sports and development initiative, reports David Harrison Picture a 14 year-old girl from a far-flung village in the Northern Province. She has never been on a tar road before. Such a young girl typically expects to […]