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So you want a fake medical certificate? Meet Mancane and co.
Hung over and want to stay in bed? Missed a deadline for a university assignment? Mancane and his colleagues in Katlehong may be able to help you.
Pharie Sefali
News | 23 January 2015
Call for youth subsidy to be scrapped
Labour and education rights groups have called for the immediate scrapping of the youth wage subsidy following the release of UCT research on its effectiveness.
Barbara Maregele
News | 22 January 2015
What scares Khayelitsha’s budding cycling team?
Snethemba Vaphi (22) can't hide his excitement about being a cyclist. He wants to compete internationally.
Siyabonga Kalipa
News | 22 January 2015
Sports complex trashed after security withdrawn
Mfuleni’s sports complex was vandalised and looted over the festive season. A community leader, who is lobbying for the trashed buildings to be renovated, has blamed the City of Cape Town for cancelling a contract with a security company to protect the grounds.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 22 January 2015
“Enough is enough!” - Manenberg residents take to the streets
Instead of the familiar echo of bullets, the sound of dozens of Manenberg residents chanting “Enough is enough” could be heard last night through the streets notorious for the recent spate of gang violence in the area.
Barbara Maregele
News | 21 January 2015
Sexual trauma, a talking cat and a mid-life crisis
Nthikeng Mohlele’s latest novel, “Rusty Bell” will delight readers already won over by his previous two books “The Scent of Bliss” (2008) and “Small Things” (2013). Mohlele is a fine, literary novelist, a rarity on the South African publishing scene, who although receiving praise from significant quarters, should be enjoying much more attention.
Nthikeng Mohlele
News | 21 January 2015
NSRI’s water safety education a “drop in the ocean”
The WaterWise Academy has taught water safety skills to over half a million children around the country. These skills are easy to learn and provide an effective way to reduce the number of drownings in South Africa, says the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI).
Kevin Elliott
News | 20 January 2015
City’s janitorial programme to be scrapped in some areas
The City of Cape Town will not be renewing the contracts of janitors employed to clean flush toilets in some informal settlements in the city.
Barbara Maragele
News | 19 January 2015
Role models and perseverance: how Kenny Solomon became South Africa’s first grandmaster
In December Kenny Solomon crossed the final hurdle needed to achieve what no other South African has. He won the African Individual Championship to become South Africa’s first chess grandmaster. Along the way he beat Egyptian grandmaster Ahmed Adly.
Nathan Geffen
News | 18 January 2015