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YOUTH

Boy washing himself

Izikhothane task team acts against Uitenhage’s flashy spenders

“I love being isikhothana. It makes me feel like a celebrity”

By Thamsanqa Mbovane

20 June 2018   NEWS

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One-year-old, R12 million Atlantis park vandalised

Residents say the community has other priorities

By Peter Luhanga

28 February 2018   BRIEF

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Youth commemorate sacrifices of the past and protest about the present

Celebrations and demonstrations held around the country on 16 June

By Ashraf Hendricks, Bernard Chiguvare and Ihsaan Haffejee

19 June 2017   PHOTO ESSAY

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A South African shame: children in prisons

Youths held in adult prison for 200 days without access to visitors

By Safura Abdool Karim

12 September 2016   LAW

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Lack of money threatens dancer’s dreams

Fifteen-year-old from Mitchells Plain wants to be a professional ballet dancer

By Ashlin Simpson

18 August 2016   NEWS

Community centre in informal settlement is derelict

“No-one seems to be doing anything to fix it”

By Abongile Ndevu

10 August 2016   BRIEF

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Carnival to commemorate 1976 aims to keep youth off drugs

But young people say they know little about the Soweto uprising

By Joseph Chirume

17 June 2016   BRIEF

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16 June magazine lives again

Banned 1986 Learn and Teach magazine commemorating 1976 now available online

By Hassen Lorgat

13 June 2016   NEWS

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Hout Bay project teaches confidence through dog training

Teenagers paired with "teen" dogs from shelter

By Bernard Chiguvare

26 February 2016   NEWS

Khayelitsha’s kid gangsters

“We are fighting for our freedom, our freedom to go anywhere we want to go in Khayelitsha,” says Latinyo, an 18-year-old grade 12 learner from Khayelitsha's H-section. He has been involved in gangs since the age of 12 and says he has lost count of how many murders he has committed.

Mary-Anne Gontsana

18 April 2012   NEWS