Pupils Speak Out: It’s not only pupils at no-fee schools that need feeding schemes
Government intervention is necessary to ensure that all children do not study on hungry stomachs because they are tired and drained.
Pupils Speak Out: Wrath and hate where there should be warmth and love
The school environment should be a place where teenagers feel safe and happy, but for many young lesbians it can be a living hell.
Pupils Speak Out: Popularity and smoking weed
A pupil from an inner city school in Johannesburg speaks about pupils who smoke weed and see it as a mechanism to influence their popularity.
Pupils Speak Out: Weapons, bullying and intimidation
Two pupils from an inner-city school in Johannesburg tell how bullies use weapons to instil fear in pupils and certain teachers.
Drug abuse or drug use?
Two anonymous testimonies of drug users – one good experience, one bad.
Nothing like a healthy pot plant
Three months, four seeds from Amsterdam, five centimetres of dirt and Bob’s your uncle.
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Labiaplasty laid bare
I am 31 years old and I have a designer vagina. That is the bare, naked truth of it.
Strike an education in corruptibility
Pupils weren’t the only victim of the strike; teachers’ ethics also came under siege.
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Hustling for survival
A Zimbabwean woman recounts how she has learned to "hustle" in a different way for survival in South Africa — by selling her body for freedom.
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My inconvenient truth
Bipolar disorder is similar to other lifelong illnesses, such as high blood pressure and diabetes, in that it cannot be “cured”.
