In a city as violently cosmopolitan as Johannesburg, finding the right place to live is not so easy...

THERE have been lots of helpful people giving me advice since I arrived in Egoli.

There are lessons to be learned for everyone from the Sarafina 2 debacle...

CAPE TOWN -- the Mother City. My mother lives here for several months every year, still, the city nearly always feels to me like a foreign country.

If our future lies in Africa, why is the rest of the continent still so far away?

THERE'S an informal free monetary area between South Africa, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe.

I'm starting a one-man campaign to tackle crime while cleaning up the CBD...

WHILE being driven through Harare yesterday, I noticed a number of streets were marked with signs that noted "No entry 6pm to 6am".

"What's that about?" I asked my host .

Maybe illegal immigrants are not such a bad thing after all...

THE Home Affairs building in central Johannesburg has a bunch of illegal immigrants who sleep overnight at the front door in order to be first in line to be processed the following morning.

They have a problem when

We should try to remember some of the stupid things we did when we were younger...

GOOD MORNING, class. Today's lesson is about cheating during examinations. We will start by . . . Mr Knowler, what's that you're drinking?

After all my moralising last week about cheating in exams, I got a nice solid kick up the butt...

THERE was an interesting correlation between headlines in the Johannesburg papers this week. The Star announced that the Education Bill would make all schools equal.

To deny legalised abortion is racism. Here's why...

WE'VE made tremendous progress since April 1994. We've stood together in sport. Black economic power has surpassed the billion rand mark.

Ever stop to think about how some words defy translation?

THERE are some words we cannot really express in English.

There was a blistering heat wave gripping much of the country this week, but not the Cape Peninsula where the heat was of a different kind...

THERE'S an astonishing variety of shops at Cape Town's V&A Waterfront — that glittering shopping and entertainment palace that arose from th