Latest work
“This is part of my legacy, and I want to encourage the youth to always remember where they come from,” says Soraya Martheze who is the subject of a short documentary about her…
The Mowbray Muslim Cemetery received City permission earlier this month to build a dedicated morgue at the site. “These approvals included provisions for a washroom, a cold room…
Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis and City librarians shared the joy of reading at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital on World Read Aloud Day, Wednesday February 5. They…
Ward 58 councillor, Dr Richard Hill, and his wife, Monique Nauta Gretchen Muller, of Gordon’s Bay, left, and Lauren Snyders, of Rondebosch Jalene Burger, left, and Roxanne…
The province’s hospitals are bracing for the usual spike in trauma cases over the festive season, say health officials. At the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital on…
“We can no longer tolerate our children going hungry, dying of poison, being shot or joining gangs,” says early childhood development expert Professor Eric Atmore. Speaking to…
High school pupils got to show off their film-making skills at an open air film festival hosted by the Cape Town Museum of Childhood in Rondebosch on Friday November 22. Ten…
Woodside Special Care Centre is making a public appeal for support for a Santa Shoebox initiative in aid of the home’s intellectually and physically disabled residents during the…
“Adoption can be a lonely experience, and it really helps to have other people who are experiencing a similar path,” says adoptive parent Jocelyn Newmarch. World Adoption Day was…
Children must be protected from preventable ills, such as malnutrition, foetal alcohol syndrome and violence, so that the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital can focus on…
The late trade unionist and member of Parliament, Lydia Kompe-Ngwena, is the subject of Lydia: Anthem to the Unity of Women, written by Dr Kally Forrest and launched at the Black…
Spreading the highly specialised and life-changing surgical skills needed to bring smiles to the faces of children with facial deformities was the aim of a conference held at a…
Former teachers and staff of a non-profit college in Salt River joined its 25th anniversary celebrations on Thursday last week. The Basic Education and Skills Training (Best)…
Over 200 members of the blind community took part in a long cane rally on the Sea Point Promenade on Saturday October 5. The long cane rally was organised by the Pinelands-based…
When Mitchell’s Plain teen Chad Payne was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 15 it came as a shocking blow to his parents. “I did not expect this. When he got diagnosed, I could…
The sighted had a chance to “see” what it’s like to be blind during a dinner in pitch darkness last week. About 70 guests were led by the hand into a darkened room at the Cape…
Robin Malan was a tireless advocate of South African theatre who helped to take the country’s stories to worldwide stages, according to tributes that followed his death last…
The continued criminalisation of sex work in South Africa means sex workers must still largely work in the shadows enduring the dangers that come with that, says Megan Lessing.…
Performing artists will find it easier to take their work on the road, reaching wider audiences around the country thanks to a joint project that plans to plough R20 million into…
The life of Uyinene Mrwetyana was commemorated in a unity walk against gender-based violence (GBV) on Saturday. Students and staff from UCT, along with activists from the Uyinene…
