Cuba’s education builds on cultural and national identity, parents’ involvement and multigrade schools.
A couple who believe their newborn baby was switched for an infant who died at birth is reliant on outside help for an independent DNA test.
A transgender woman, in a struggle to get Home Affairs to give her an ID that reflects her name and gender, has gone on a hunger strike in protest.
Without a Utopia to strive for, South Africa will self-destruct, writes Breyten Breytenbach.
Naima Mclean, the star of George C Wolfe classic "The Colored Museum", talks about the play and her identity as an African American.
Perhaps one of the most powerful aspects to emerge from apartheid was the restless spirit of blackness and its future, writes Tsepo wa Mamatu.
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/ 13 December 2010
South Africans without IDs are hampered from accessing service rights like grants and education. Here are the stories of four victims.
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/ 17 October 2008
Book reviews: <i>The Eye of the Leopard</i> by Henning Mankell and <i>’Sister outsiders'</i> Devarakshanam Govinden.
How do you measure suffering? And if you were to find that you have suffered the most, how do you get compensated for that?