Tara Turkington

‘I like explosions,” says Chantall Bekker, when asked why she enjoyed this year’s science festival at Rhodes University in Grahamstown. Bekker was one of a group of 18 Grade 10 and Grade 11 learners who drove 12 hours each way in a minibus from Kingsway High School in Amanzimtoti to the Sasol Scifest. And every […]

As the number of children orphaned by Aids escalates, many hard-pressed NGOs are being forced to pay orphans’ school fees to prevent them from being excluded – despite the fact that exclusion on financial grounds is illegal. In the Ingwavuma District, for instance, which lies close to the borders of Swaziland and Mozambique in the […]