Glimmer of hope for pupils as strike ends

A group of Soweto students have been offered a glimmer of hope by the public service unions’ announcement to suspend the protracted strike action for 21 days.

Progress with refugees at Joburg church

All unaccompanied children have been moved from the Central Methodist Church, in central Johannesburg, to a Soweto shelter, or been reunited with family.

Hotshot shoots from the hip

2010-09-05 13:00

Award-winning photo-journalist Jodi Bieber’s iconic image of Aisha – the Afghan woman whose face was maimed, allegedly by the Taliban – made it onto the cover of Time magazine.

The Durban struggle in black and white

2010-09-05 13:00

The blues in black and brown, could have easily been the title of Ranjith Kally’s current solo exhibition. But the show is titled, A Durban Perspective on South Africa 1946 – 1982: A Life Behind the Lens.

The smart way to give birth

2010-09-05 13:00

Kenyans can now save towards the cost of childbirth at the country’s largest maternal hospital thanks to a medical smart card system.

Dead and waiting indefinitely

2010-08-28 23:00

The body of a dead Zimbabwean man is in limbo at a Johannesburg mortuary as the public service strike drags on.

The administrative ABCs of death

Jozi doesn’t love her back

2010-08-21 22:57

Xenophobia is a chameleon, as Kimberley Reid knows.

Afghan women have already been abandoned

2010-08-22 13:00

The cabinet, courts and parliament are run by men who differ from the Taliban chiefly in their choice of turbans, writes Ann Jones.

An Afghan man prays at the Eid Gah mosque during Eid al-Fitr prayers in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Friday (September 10, 2010). Muslims all over the world celebrate the Eid with prayers, family reunions and other festivities. Picture: Mustafa Quraishi/AP

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The silent citizens

2010-08-29 13:00

Meet the casualties of the South African Dream: poor, coloured and female.

Residents feel public strike

2010-08-27 09:30

Percy and Precious loiter outside a butchery in Diepsloot, north of Johannesburg, hoping strangers will give them enough coins so they can buy dinner – chips and bread.

Final exit for lady of entrances

2010-08-22 13:00

She was the quiz mistress that South Africans loved to hate, but Fiona Coyne had many more dimensions to her than an ability to be waspishly nasty to quivering contestants.

In with the old ... and new

2010-08-22 13:00

Neil Coppen trawls the city and chats to the owners of Durban’s oldest and newest male grooming dens to see what sets them apart from the rest

inside city press

It’s a girl thing

Few Swazi maidens who took part in the Reed Dance were under the illusion they would be the next inkhosikati.
‘Matrics need drastic help’

A school readiness report has called for drastic measures to prepare matriculants for exams.
I came alive. I could fly

There’s probably no more tragic and paradoxical figure in the history of jazz than Charles “Yardbird” Parker.
Strike hits Aids epidemic

People living with Aids are at risk of developing resistance to Aids drugs as a result of defaulting on treatment.
Matric results ‘will be dismal’

We can expect dismal matric results if statistics from 2007 are anything to go by.
JZ puts foot in presidential jet

President jets to 20 countries in 36 weeks.
The village that kills old ladies

Elderly women in an Eastern Cape village live in fear of killers and rapists.
Tribute to the one and only MaBrrr

Babalwa Shota looks at musical about the life of Brenda Fassie.

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