The award-winning musician and producer Lebo M has a true rags-to-riches tale to tell, writes Dikatso Mametse.
Yfm’s Rudeboy Paul is making his mark on the media industry, writes Dikatso Mametse.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
‘A friend started calling me Vinny da Vinci when I was still young. Before I started DJing he named me after another artist," Vincent Motshegoa says about the history of his…
"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…
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…
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…
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.
Filmmaker <b>Haile Gerima</b> arrived in South Africa for the local release of his 1993 film <i>Sankofa</i> last week. Dikatso Mametse was there to meet him.
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…
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…
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…
