Leoni Benghiat

Maximum security: In the United States many learners have to pass through metal detectors to determine whether they are armed before they can enter school. Photo: Psychiatry Education’s Ruin, Citizens Commission on Human Rights More and more learners are being caught with guns and other weapons at school, reports Leoni Benghiat Twenty years ago, violence […]

The Klerksdorp campus of Vuselela FET College in the North West bustles with students hurrying to and from their exam centres. The students have a choice of six study sections offered at the college, including business studies, computer training, engineering studies, the Grade 12 national certificate and hair care. It is also the only training […]

Thirty percent of primary school children have tried alcohol, with 10 being the average age at which alcohol is first consumed. More disturbingly, 23% of these children are repeat users, with 12 being the average age of children who habitually drink. These were some of the findings of a Medical Research Council (MRC) poll conducted […]

Northern Gauteng’s senior women hockey team has a secret weapon – the youngest provincial hockey player to date, but sixteen-year-old Griselda Andries says she is not intimidated by the fact that she is the youngest player on the provincial circuit.