Education
Factions fuel violence at Durban hostel
Sitting on a worn-out green sofa outside Durban’s giant Glebelands hostel, Thulani Kati describes in graphic detail his alleged torture by a special police unit on 2 October this year.
Fatima Asmal and Barbara Maregele
Feature | 28 November 2014
Prevention strategies the key to curbing violence against children
“South Africa has no national statistics on violence against children,” says Shanaaz Mathews, director of the Children's Institute at the University of Cape Town. In the absence of statistics, the South African Child Gauge looks at community-based studies. The 9th issue was launched in Pretoria on Tuesday.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 20 November 2014
Link between poor housing, traffic deaths and education outcomes
The 7th annual Irene Grootboom Memorial Dialogues, which explore the continuation of Cape Town’s “spatial apartheid”, are underway. On Tuesday night, the focus was on the spate of shack evictions around the city this year, and the correlation between poor, densely populated areas and traffic deaths and education outcomes.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 19 November 2014
Making a go of graphics in Gugulethu
Bheki Kunene started his own business, Mind Trix Media, in 2009 with just R600 and a computer. Today he has eight employees and clients across the globe.
Siyabonga Kalipa
News | 18 November 2014
Current struggles of historic school that Biko attended
Forbes Grant Senior Secondary School is not safe. The flimsy fence structure around the school is easily breakable. On the school’s perimeter, the fence has gaping holes in many places. In some parts, there is no fence at all.
Daniel Linde
Opinion | 12 November 2014
Ndisebenzisa ikawusi njengephedi, utsho umfundi wakwaLanga
UAkhona ufunda kwibanga lesibhozo. Njengabo bonke abalingane bakhe baseklasini abaninzi, usoloko ephoswa kukuya esikolweni xa esexesheni ngenxa yokuba usapho lwakhe alukwazi ukumthengela iiphedi. Xa kufuneka abhale uvavanyo, usebenzisa ikawusi, utsho.
Pharie Sefali
News | 11 November 2014
Recruiting child soldiers on the Cape Flats
Calvin* has spent over half of his life in Cape Flats gangs. Today, he is 26 years old and a high-ranking member of both the Mongrels street gang and the 28s prison gang.
Dariusz Dziewanski
Opinion | 10 November 2014
I use a sock as a sanitary pad, says Langa learner
Akhona is in grade eight. Like many of her classmates, she often misses school when she has her periods because her family cannot afford sanitary pads. When she has to write a test, she uses a sock, she says.
Pharie Sefali
News | 6 November 2014
How an organisation is helping immigrant children with disabilities
It is not easy to raise a child with disabilities if you are a single mother and a foreign national living in a township in South Africa. Fortunately, there is the PASSOP Disabled Children Support Group.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 5 November 2014