“I’m trying to work myself out of a job,” says the director of the Angus Gillis Foundation, Diana Hornby. This is not what you would expect to hear from an organisation’s director or from a winner of the 2010 South Africa’s Most Influential Women award, but as our conversation continues, it makes perfect sense.
Author: Busisiwe Hoho
Graeme College hosted its seventh arts and culture week this week. Priscilla Glover, the head of the music department at Graeme College, says the event is intended to showcase what the boys can do on the cultural side of things.
The introduction of marshals at Inter-Varsity raises questions over whose agenda the marshals are aimed to serve. The issues are outlined in points made by the university management and student representatives.
One of the biggest looming disasters of our time is global warming and if people don’t look after the environment, our chances of being able to adapt are very slim.
One month after Mandela Day, learners at Samuel Ntsiko Primary School are still helping others. Last week they visited Makanaskop Residential Facility, an old age home in Extension 4, bearing gifts of tinned food.
The Grahamstown Flower Festival will have two added attractions this year in the form of speakers who are recognised as experts in their respective fields and are bound to draw large numbers of gardeners and horticulturists.
The Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa (Wessa) invites you to a talk about one of our most charismatic mammals, the leopard.
It’s garbage collection day. I was once a big bottle of cooldrink being enjoyed on a hot summers day, but now I’ve been thrown away in a thin orange bag and dumped next to a dirty black sack on the street corner.
South Africans should brace themselves for what could be the biggest satellite launch across the African continent. This is according to Dr Andile Ngcaba, the Executive Chairman of Dimension Data SA, who regards the project as his pride and joy.
Fancy drinking Coke from a hollow ostrich egg? Or eating your lunch in a tortoise shell? That is how stone age dwellers would have done it.