Girly* is six months old. She attends a day-care in a highly guarded facility, with armed guards situated at almost every gate.

SCORES of factory workers shuffled into a large hall in Cato Ridge in February 2007, anxious to tell the government inspectors how their bodies and brains had been crippled, allegedly from working in clouds of toxic manganese dust.

As we begin another year of attempting to tackle the ills that plague our society, I can’t help reflecting on my contribution, writes S’bongiseni Vilakazi.

It is very easy to judge Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga when she says she is prepared to change the law to force schools to take extra pupils even when they consider themselves to be full.

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