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Passionate about ballet
A young East London ballerina has been accepted into a prestigious development programme with Cape Town City Ballet. Barbara Hollands reports MANY little girls don tiny ballet shoes and spend their first school years twirling about school halls ...

Has Britney broken up?
BRITNEY Spears says she's not "in an intense relationship with anyone" fuelling speculation that she and 'N Sync's Justin Timberlake have broken up. The 20-year-old pop singer faced the British media at a news conference on Monday to promote Cros...

'Get up, buy a loaf of bread and give it to a hungry person'
Sheryl Deyzel, 42, is the founder and owner of Little Angels Day Care and Little Angels Safety Home, a not-for-profit organisation which cares for orphaned, neglected, abused and hungry children in Cambridge. Andrea Jonker-Bryce spoke to her. ...

Tumbling into the mainstream
JOHN* is like any other child you would see on the playground at break time. He plays with the other children, laughing and enjoying some free time away from the books and blackboards. But John is not like other children. John has Down's Syndrome....

Nightmare times on the fields of world dreams
ONE HAS to live in hope, even in pessimism, but the sporting message of the last few months does not augur well for South Africa, abetted by Thabo Mbeki's incredible statement that winning was not all that important. Sporting contests are all abo...

Fuji Photo SA Press Awards A moment in time
WINNER: NEWS Plucked to Safety by Siphiwe Sibeko RUNNER UP: NEWS Stampede by Mpho Mphotho WINNER: PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Gail Johnson Activist by Debbie Yazbek WINNER: SPORT Just do it by Debbie Yazbek WINNER: PICTURE STORY, ...

Karen's story
KAREN Lewis looks at me with pleading eyes as she tells me about her son Kyle. I've been investigating the government's inclusive education policy for several weeks, conducting interviews, chatting to principals and school teachers, government of...

Oscar's box-office boom
HALLE Berry's triumphant run toward an Academy Award already has brought big commercial success to Monster's Ball, a low-budget, gritty film that's anything but a feel-good crowd-pleaser. With Berry's emotional best-actress win Sunday, the film ...

Shakespearean sex change
WOMEN have a reputation for taking over the top bastions of male power in New Zealand -- prime minister, chief justice, governor-general, to name a few. Now a New Zealand actress has moved into fictional territory to storm one of literature's mos...