Sipho (not his real name) was abandoned by his mother when he was a baby. He is in the care of his grandmother, who supports him with her small pension.
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A square metre of ground outside, and a bucket of clean water inside, can take a family a long way on the road to better health.
Smile and the world smiles with you The front page of this newspaper shows six happy faces at this weekend’s Makana Edutourism exhibition – but these six smiling women did not reflect the sentiments of all exhibitors at Settlers’ Monument.
Juanita Finestone Praeg, of the drama department, and James Gambiza, of the Department of Environmental Science, have been named Rhodes University's top teachers for 2010.
“They are our foot soldiers,” said Ndumiso Nongwe, Environmental Manager of Makana Municipality, referring to the 16 participants in last year’s Makana Youth Ward Waste Management Initiative.
"We understand the frustration of the local community," was the response of provincial education department spokesperson Loyiso Pulumani to the plight of pupils affected by drastic teacher cuts.
Larry and Sharon McGillewie left Grahamstown on their motorbikes at the beginning of January, on their journey of a lifetime through Africa and Europe.
The municipality's official imbizos will be earlier this year, and the new council will get a head-start on their job, with their annual budget already drawn up by the outgoing council.
Good Shepherd Primary school on Huntley Street will soon have a completely revamped building housing a library, principal's office, staff room, computer lab, kitchen, hall for music lessons and even an underground study room.
National Arts Festival attendees this year will be the first to enjoy a special mixed-media project set up to cross the divide between art forms, and centred around the notion of visual images as stories in themselves.