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How to spot Alzheimer’s and what to do to manage the effects of this debilitating disease.

Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, is the name given to a group of conditions where memory, thinking, behaviour and emotion are affected in the brain.

Many South Africans are affected by this condition, but little is known about this type of mental illness.

Ntokozo Ngcobo, a psychiatrist at King Dinuzulu Hospital in Durban, says dementia often affects the elderly. She says that those who suffer from this illness often experience memory loss.

The first beneficiaries of the Siyanqoba Integrated Residential Development Programme recieve their new homes.

Gogo Martha Matjomane (70) of Siyangoba in eMalahleni is a the first-time homeowner, thanks to the Mpumalanga Provincial Government.

Matjomane is a widow, who has lived in a shack, with her four children, for 26 years.

“Rainwater leaked inside and my children and I were always stressed. Winter was unbearable in the shack,” she says.

Thirty-three informal traders, who previously operated under make-shift stalls at the Ezimbuzini Precinct in Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal, now have a new and improved trading facility.

eThekwini Municipality has constructed an automotive hub and informal trading stalls, at the cost of R22 million. The development is the first of its kind in the country to house and formalise the informal trading sector.

The project forms part of the municipality’s efforts to accelerate the township economy. 

Residents of Umjindini township in Barberton, Mpumalanga, no longer have to travel long distances for primary healthcare services thanks to a new state-of-the-art clinic that opened to the community recently.

The new Cathyville clinic, built by Barberton Mines, at a cost of R15.4 million, was officially handed over to the community by the Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Gwede Mantashe, and Mpumalanga Premier Refilwe Mtsheni-Tsipane.

The National Development Agency (NDA) and Mfesane, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has donated 10 mobile beauty salons to the Saldanha Bay and Bergriver local municipalities in the Western Cape.

A beneficiary of the programme and the owner of Mama’s Beauty Bar, Ilse Masdoorp (26), says the mobile salon helps her feed her two children and support her husband, who was previously the breadwinner of the family.

Fancy Monama’s hobby has turned into a thriving business.

Fancy Monama is the founder of Bluu – a brand with a range of detergents.

The industrial engineer from Attridgeville in Tshwane always dreamt of owning her own product.

Monama’s dream became a reality about six years ago, after watching YouTube tutorials about making detergents.

Nomonde Ngwenya knows too well the devastating effects of abuse and has vowed never to return to that life again.

She is currently working hard to become a successful entrepreneur, with the help she receives from a non-governmental organisation (NGO) called 1 000 Women Trust.

Ngwenya who is from Cape Town in the Western Cape, is now the proud owner of a fish and chips shop.

The absence of food delivery apps in townships prompted Reneilwe Aphane to create Kasi Menu.

Aphane says entering the industry was not easy.

A trial partnership between small- scale farmer Tsakane Matsoga, Potatoes SA and the Limpopo Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (LDARD) is benefitting the province's farming comm-
unity. 

Knocking on doors looking for work led Mandlenkosi Nkosi to become a thriving businessman and an enviro warrior, advocating for recycling and teaching others how to profit from it.