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Young Mowbray fashion designer sells clothes on Facebook
Kayla Kim Meiring is the founder of Fro, a company that started off selling vintage clothing but now sells Meiring's own homespun popular clothes.
Margo Fortune and Nokubonga Yawa
News | 5 December 2012
South African students at forefront of massive astronomy project
Mpati Ramatsoku and Moses Mogotsi are two South African PhD students who are being funded to work on one of the most exciting science projects of the decade: the Square Kilometre Array.
Tessa Gooding
News | 4 December 2012
Waldorf school to open in Masiphumele
Siyakhula Waldorf Primary School will open in Masiphumele township near Fish Hoek, Cape Town, in January 2014.
Tessa Gooding
News | 28 November 2012
Lakay: “Never give up on your dream”
Anridge Junaid Lakay is 22 years old and plays centre mid-field for first division team Vasco Da Gama.
Margo Fortune
News | 28 November 2012
Delft clinic and community members caught in SANCO squabble
An internal squabble in the South African National Civics Organisation (SANCO) in Delft spilled over into the streets earlier this month.
Mihle Pike
News | 28 November 2012
Musical talent lives on the steet
Frieda Darvel, 27 years old from Kensington lives on the streets of Cape Town. Her singing voice has landed her an opportunity with a Swedish Gospel choir.
Margo Fortune
News | 28 November 2012
Anger builds as mother searches for her son
16 December will mark three years since Siyamthanda Mndayi, an Ocean View boy with Down’s syndrome went missing from his home. His distraught mother has not given up hope of finding him.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 28 November 2012
Months in prison without a bail hearing
If you are arrested in South Africa, even if you are innocent, expect to spend months and maybe years in prison before being released. The law says that if you are arrested you should appear before a court within 48 hours or be released. The courts have also ruled that bail hearings are urgent. Yet the police, prosecutors, magistrates and judges often ignore these rights.
Mary-Jane Matsolo
News | 28 November 2012