You don’t have to be well-to-do to afford the services of this gourmet chef, writes Nawaal Deane.
The Office of the Rights of the Child in the Presidency is three years late in submitting a progress report on children’s rights to the United Nations — tainting South…
Nawaal Deane spoke to Strini Pillai, of popular South African soapie, Generations, about life before fame Did you know that you wanted to be an actor when you were in school? I…
Collecting school fees is a nightmare for some but not for the principal of Troyeville Primary, writes Nawaal Deane Rosemary Schulze, principal of Troyeville Primary in…
Victor Vermeulen was 19 with an exceptional future as a world class cricketer when he jumped into a swimming pool and broke his neck. Eight years later he has become one of South…
Statistics say that 26 000 children are physically and sexually abused every month. According to the South African National Council for Child Welfare (SANCCW), 60% of abuse cases…
This is the first in a series of fact-filled health columns that will touch on many issues affecting the health of students. Our living organism operates on four levels: the…
The first time I lit a cigarette and dragged the smoke into my lungs I was a 13-year-old schoolgirl with an idea that I must try something forbidden. Thirteen years later I was…
World Tuberculosis (TB) Day on March 24 once again puts the focus on this widespread disease. In recent years TB has been forgotten, often overshadowed by the HIV/Aids epidemic.…
The Medicines Council Control (MCC) has defended itself against charges that it is failing to crack down on the Dr Rath Health Foundation’s anti-Aids drug campaign, saying it…
There is a phenomenon taking hold of Dutch schools that hearkens back to the bad old days of apartheid South Africa. Although it is not legally stipulated, there is a distinct…
‘Kyle didn’t stand a chance,” says Estelle Kunneke. Her 16-year-old son ran away from Ethokomala, a reform school in Kinross, Mpumalanga, on February 3. He has not been heard…
The Month of Photography and the Month of People’s Photography have brought contradictory images to the Mother City, writes Nawaal Deane.
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/197779/special_rep_icon_template.gif" align=left>The Treasury should not be congratulated on its R48-billion allocation to health…
The SABC’s independence will be tested by a TV documentary directed by Aids activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Zackie Achmat, which is highly critical of the government. The…
When race war finally breaks out in South Africa it will be about … wait for it … parking. It is parking that lies at the heart of one of Cape Town’s first equality court…
The Brazilian government is on a collision course with three multinational drug companies. It has threatened to declare HIV/Aids a national health emergency, enabling it to…
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/142915/aids_icon.gif" align=left>Zibango Hlabe sits watching his family building their new home. He is too weak to help. He has come…
Staff members of the cash-squeezed daily newspaper <i>ThisDay</i> are scrabbling for jobs after media reports that closure is imminent. Journalists speaking to the <i>Mail &…
"We have been going to universities to tell them ‘you must understand that 2 500 pharmacists service seven million South Africans’." The <i>M&G</i> spoke to Dr Anban Pillay, the…
