Dikatso Mametse

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 (DHS) in 1942 with four distinctions. Who were your favourite teachers? Two of my DHS teachers stand out above the others. One was […]

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 schooling first in England at the London Guildhall School of Music and then at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, […]

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. Who was your favourite teacher and why? Mrs Todd Langa was my favourite. I liked English, which was the subject she taught. Any fond memories you […]

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 Tshimologo Primary in Meadowlands it was Mam’ Poe. She never used to spank me because she thought I was clever. At Maponyane Higher Primary […]

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 high school career, but never matriculated. I matriculated from Boston House College in 1988. Who was your favourite teacher and why? I […]

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 arts. Though the facilities consist of only two large rehearsal and training rooms, a resource centre, three offices, a garden and a relaxation room, up to 30 […]

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 what was happening to her – and nor was her family. ‘My grandmother thought I was a stubborn girl because I wouldn’t respond when […]

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 basis. This farm school, outside Harrismith in the Free State, is one of those that seems to have been left behind. Started in 1949, […]

"What is the fascination with the black body?" The question was asked by Nokuthula Skhosana, a South African delegate at the Sex and Secrecy Conference held at Wits University this week.

The government is determined to release most mentally ill patients from the institutions where they are confined, but it has not allocated the resources to ensure they are adequately cared for in new homes.

South Africa’s first youth radio station, Yfm, turns six this year, but questions have been raised about whether it is making much of a contribution towards developing the youth.

Boni Dibate, chief executive of South African Express Airways (SA Express), will be demoted two levels and moved elsewhere in Transnet, a disciplinary committee decided after hearing eight charges of fraud against her.

South Africa’s "national flower" and "roadside daisies" face extinction
as the deadline draws close for shops to stop providing consumers with free thin plastic bags.

Lobola. It’s so last century. Here’s my understanding of how it worked. So, I’m getting married, but I don’t know it yet. I’m actually the last person to know. Hubby-to-be has to tell the folks first that he’s spotted a fine young woman that he intends marrying.

Forced off their land almost 40 years ago, the people of Metsimatshwe-Groot Vlakfontein near Kuruman in the Northern Cape are preparing to return home in triumph. But government officials are cautious about the pace of the resettlement.

Outbursts by senior Pan Africanist Congress leaders will come under the spotlight in the third weekend in March when the national executive committee (NEC) meets to discuss ways of forging unity within the party. Facing the party’s wrath will be MP Patricia de Lille, who was reported to have declared the PAC dead.

A complaint against the <i>SABC</i> for failing to report bribery allegations against Deputy President Jacob Zuma in November was the first of its kind for the Broadcasting Complaints Commission.

The Pan Africanist Congress will focus on bringing stability to the party over the next six months, says Stanley Mogoba, the party’s president. The national executive council (NEC) will hold a meeting next week to agree on one candidate for leadership, Mogoba said.

Two fiery young leaders could join forces to challenge the old guard of the Pan Africanist Congress, especially the rule of president Stanley Mogoba and deputy president Motsoko Pheko. Mogoba has been president of the PAC since 1996.

A desperate Soweto family is still waiting for foster-care grants they say they applied for in 1995, despite the government’s drive to sign up millions more for welfare grants. Kedibone (15) and Clive Mabaso (10) are in dire need of the money.

Cheaper to treat HIV/Aids: Three million Aids deaths can be averted and more than 2,5-million HIV infections prevented by 2015 through the implementation of voluntary counselling and testing, mother-to-child transmission prevention, improved management of sexually transmitted infections and highly active anti-retroviral therapy, according to a study by the Centre for Actuarial Research. The study says the cost of highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) for adults will gradually increase from R224-million this year to a peak of R18,1-billion in 2015. "With a realistic price reduction in anti-retroviral medicines to R300 a month for a first-line regimen and R450 a month for a second-line regimen, the cost of adult HAART can be reduced to R14,1-billion in 2015."