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Clowns for Change

News | 16 October 2013

UWC students celebrate gay rights

On Monday student organisations at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) launched an awareness week called "From the same soil."

Pharie Sefali

News | 16 October 2013

Citizenless Brian

What drives a 15-year-old boy to move to a neighbouring country on his own and without his guardian’s consent? Meet Brian Dlodlo, now a 20-year-old man from Zimbabwe who crossed to South Africa through Beitbridge Border Post as an unaccompanied minor in 2007. Brian has no identity papers. He is effectively the citizen of no country.

Tariro Washinyira

News | 16 October 2013

Empowerment through art

Hand in Hand Creatives (HHC) is a not-for-profit organisation (NPO) that aims to provide young people from disadvantaged communities with access to the creative arts through workshops, running outings, and planning festivals. The organisation believes that the arts can empower individuals and nurture self-respect.

Fergus Turner

News | 16 October 2013

Growing food in Cape Town’s homes

Local organisation SEED has pledged to make 100 homes in Cape Town more sustainable this year by encouraging residents to grow their own food and eventually achieve ‘food freedom’.

Delphine Pedeboy

News | 16 October 2013

Rocklands Primary School pioneers sustainability in education

It is a bright, sunny October morning in Mitchell’s Plain. At the Rocklands Urban Abundance Centre, situated on a strip of land next to Rocklands Primary School, volunteers are hard at work tending to the plants and seedlings in the tree nursery.

Delphine Pedeboy

News | 15 October 2013

Alexander Court, Parow: tenants say their lives are in danger.

Property owners and tenants of Alexander Court in Parow say they are being terrorised by drug lords and sex workers who trespass on their balconies.

Tariro Washinyira

News | 15 October 2013

The Gugulethu Seven remembered 27 years later

Mandla Mxinwa, Jabulani Miya, Themba Molefi, Christopher Piet, Zola Swelani, Zabonkwe Konile and Zandisile Mjobo -- the Gugulethu Seven -- will once again be honoured for the role they played in the struggle against the apartheid regime.

Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 15 October 2013

Wind turbine

News | 9 October 2013