Bright Heights of hope in the gloom.

Byline: Rhoda Kadalie

Bright Heights of hope in the gloom BRILLIANT columnist and academic the late Dr Anthony Holiday prophesied that under Thabo Mbeki's rule, SA could become the banana of banana republics. The Economist's recent succinct account of the internecine power struggle within the African National Congress (ANC) makes SA look like a serious competitor for the Guinness Book of Records as basket case of the world. On a positive note, however, at the civic level there are baskets full of excellence worth publicising. On Friday, I was invited to attend the Western Cape education department's launch of a solar-powered computer laboratory in Bernardino Heights …