HAVE we ever considered how many orphans there are in the world? One estimate has given the figure of 153 million. That is a frightening, disturbing, alarming figure. Here in
Neil Todd, the first CEO of ATS and former Head of Falcon College, passed away recently. The following is a tribute to him from ATS. There was an old joke
We will all have witnessed how young children behave and react when they receive a present; it is usually with massive excitement, unrestrained enthusiasm and an explosion of noise and
One of my earliest memories is sitting at the kitchen table, aged six, parroting Latin conjugation of the verb “Amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatis, amant”, meaning (for those of us
Many of us will be familiar with the quotation often attributed (though seemingly inaccurately) to Henry Ford, when he introduced the world to the first motor car: “If I had
In Scotland, there are two very evocative and effective expressions that suggest people are in imminent danger, primarily as a result of their own actions, it has to be added:
If someone, say from America or France, comes to live in Zimbabwe, he must understand that in this country he must drive on the left-hand side of the road. It
Depending on where we may research on the internet, we may come up with some interesting statistics with regard to chance. One website records that the chance of being born
In the 1960s a number of singers recorded the popular song which contained the signature lines, “It’s my party, and I’ll cry if I want to, cry if I want
There is a story about a new teacher who stood in front of his class and (unwisely) asked the pupils, “Anyone who thinks he or she is stupid, please just