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Staff and learners from Noluthando School for the Deaf were in high spirits when the school officially opened its library on Thursday 28 July.

Ijike yabubuvuvu intetha yesiXhosa ethi akukho mgqomo wokulahla mntu ngethuba abahlali besitalato iSagwityi, eCrossroads, begagana nomzimba womntu unyhalwe emgqomeni wenkunkuma ngentseni yangoMvulo umhla wokuqala kweyeThupha.

For 73 year-old, Nomalizo Pikashe, moulding and taking care of children is a never ending passion.

While the majority of his peers are mainly focusing on completing their National Senior Certificates (NSC) 20-year-old Momelezi Kanyiwe is currently making a name for himself.

“I don’t know what to do. All my children are unemployed. But I’d love to bury my child with dignity.”.

There will be 30 learners less going to school barefoot at Umnqophiso Primary School in Lwandle, thanks to a donation by Fat Cats Athletics Club.

Days after the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) pulled the plug on Radio Zibonele for “failing” to renew its broadcasting licence, the station’s Chief Executive Officer Mawande Jara announced his departure.

Despite the 417 schools receiving security from the Western Cape Education Department for the winter school holidays, 42 schools were vandalised.

Three men and a woman, who orchestrated the murder of Pasika Kwaza, were all sentenced to long term imprisonment by the Western Cape High Court on Friday 22 July.

As part of the International Mandela Day celebrations, celebrated on Monday 18 July, and the Mandela month, Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure Patricia de Lille had visited Encotsheni Primary School and a local community project, Iliso Care