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Do you know a three year old who is having difficulties with communication?  They could be on an autistic spectrum. We are bidding farewell to a month that is famously known for raising well being awareness, a child abuse prevention and a sexual assault awareness month. In South Africa, it is also the month of freedom where we celebrate diversity and the freedom that our country has achieved. Unfortunately on the Mental Health and Well being side of things, our country is not so informing hence we witness a constant rise in biased, stereotypical and discriminatory behaviour towards people who live with mental illnesses or disorders.  ASD is a neurobehavioural (relationship between the nervous system and behaviour) condition that is characterised by difficulty in social interaction and communication and by restricted or repetitive patterns of thought and behaviour. The word spectrum is used because the severity and symptoms range widely with different ski...

Wednesday ,  8 May  2019 South African general election Will you be joining the voting lines? This year seems to be very chilled from the political side of things. South Africa has come a long way, we have had 25 years of democracy and yet not much visual change has been attained (It is a continuous process). By visual I mean proper implementation of democratic policies and the vision and mission thereof. Honestly 25 years is quite a lot of years, for us to live in a democratic South Africa that still has overpopulated squatter camps and a paramount unemployment rate. Sadly students who are about to graduate and those who already have in most cases do not know what this economy has in store for them. So many socio-economic issues like access to clean water and sanitation or access to a  good basic healthcare service are not in provision, if so they are not of good quality. We are still suffering from the scars of Apartheid, so many issues have not yet been...