It has been a long road for Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma, born in 1942 in Inkandla, KwaZulu Natal to Gcinamazwi and Nokubhekisisa Zuma. His father gave all his children names that ... improve the lives ...

We are also pleased with progress made in expanding access to education for children of the poor and the working class given the increase in FET colleges bursary uptakes. At the same time, funding for ...

We are investing in these ECD centres of crèches as they are commonly known, to ensure that even children of the poor and the working class have a good start in education. Government has remarkably ...

The percentage of learners from poor households who benefit from the no-fee schools policy has increased dramatically from zero point seven percent in 2002 to fifty four percent in 2010. We are really ...

It was the muckraker Jacob Riis who famously wrote about how the Lower East Side’s other half lived. Riis was given his due when, in 1949, a public housing complex by Walker & Gillette was named ...

A drowning surfer who died after being carried out of the ocean by good Samaritans at Queens’ Jacob Riis Park was a rising documentary filmmaker whose first feature is about to have its US premiere.

An award-winning filmmaker drowned at Jacob Riis Park in Queens last week after his surfboard apparently got tangled in a decrepit wooden jetty, a deadly obstruction residents have begged the ...

A Queens surfer died after he was carried out of the ocean by good Samaritans at the beach in Jacob Riis Park in the Rockaways, the Daily News has learned. Police responding to a 911 call about 12 ...

In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis described the virus’s devastating effects in New York City’s tenement housing in the 1880s, where impoverished and starving people gathered in close ...