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All in line! Let’s go! Community volunteers ensure that children get to school and back safely by accompanying them on their journey.

Over 3 000 parents and volunteers in the Western Cape are playing a proactive role in keeping children safe, by walking groups of children to school and back.

Sharing his story of growing up with an absent father changed the course of Charley Pietersen’s life.

In 2015, Pietersen launched his autobiography, ‘Growing up without a father’.

Municipal land that was standing empty in Stellenbosch will now be used to produce food and create jobs. 

As South Africa moves towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution(4IR)  entrepreneurs now have a space to develop their solutions which will take the country forward. The Fourth Industrial Revolution Incubator (4IRI) is aimed at helping entrepreneurs maximise the opportunities in the technological development space.

CEO of the 4IRI Naomi Musi said the incubator gives entrepreneurs the opportunity to develop capability and capacity in the digital learning industry.

Farmed fish could be the answer for South Africans looking for a cheaper source of animal protein. 

A 32-year-old entrepreneur, Morena Khashane, is determined to not only produce fish for South African communities, but to spread awareness of the industry and the nutritional benefits of this healthy, resource-efficient protein.

You can now formally lodge complaints if GBVF cases are not handled efficiently.

Citizens who are not satisfied with the services rendered by the South African Police Service (SAPS), especially with regard to Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF), are encouraged to lodge complaints.

High school learners in Athlone and Khayelitsha are providing support to victims and spreading awareness of gender-based violence (GBV) through a peer education programme called The Birds and the Bees.

Non-profit organisation Rape Crisis started the programme in communities where young people are often exposed to GBV in their homes and even at school.

Anna Annamalai is a life orientation teacher and school counsellor at Morris Isaacson High School in Soweto. She believes that the Department of Basic Education’s (DBE) new scripted lessons in sexual educaton are yielding positive results. 

The start of the new academic year has again seen bogus, fly-by-night higher education colleges and institutions trying to lure unsuspecting students.

The Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Dr Blade Nzimande, has warned students and their parents to be careful of illegal or fly-by-night colleges as they are not registered as institutions of learning with the correct Sector Education and Training Authorities, the Department of Higher Education and Training and other relevant bodies.

Once a farm worker, Rosina Nevhutalu today owns her own successful vegetable and crop farm and is helping combat unemployment in Musina’s Tshikhudini village in Limpopo.

Her enterprise, Nevhutalu Farming and Services, employs six permanent staff members and between 20 and 30 seasonal workers.