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The Ndlovu Youth Choir captured hearts across the globe during its recent performance on America’s Got Talent.

The Ndlovu Youth Choir recently performed and excelled on one of the world’s biggest stages - America’s Got Talent - in front of celebrity judges, thousands of audience members and millions of television viewers.

Savings Month is a great way to help South Africans focus on why we should save and how to do it, ensuring that we take back our power to become financially free.

According to South African Savings Institute CEO Gerald Mwandiambira, while there’s no doubt that South Africans are struggling under increasing financial pressure, it is at times like this that a savings buffer becomes even more important.

With over 9.7 percent of South Africa’s population suffering from depression, anxiety or both, the chance is high that one or more of your colleagues or employees is battling with one of these mental health conditions right now.

The best part of winter is spending time indoors, curled up on the couch with a good book or a movie. It’s even better accompanied with some delicious comfort food. We have some ideas that will take your “me time” to another tasty level.  

Beef Stew

Ingredients

3 Tablespoons all-purpose flour

1Kg beef stew meat, (fat removed)

½ Stick butter

2 Cups water

1 Teaspoon dried thyme

2 Teaspoons salt

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Saving is not necessarily dependent on income; it is largely dependent on willpower and discipline, according to the South African Savings Institute CEO Gerald Mwandiambira.

With July being Savings Month Mwandiambira said the reality is that willpower can be difficult and hiccups in commitment to save can lead to failure.

“The way to overcome failure in saving is to find ways that will strengthen and help you to become more disciplined.”

Mwandiambira gave the following tips:

Young inventor Tumelo Photolo is set to take charge of his financial independence, thanks to the Free State Department of Economic, Small Business Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs (Destea).

The young man from Qwa Qwa has developed a solar cellphone charger – with the battery neatly tucked into a cellphone cover.

Government has eased the burden for another 42 Western Cape residents by providing them with their own home.

Cassidy September (10) finally has her own bedroom and backyard to play in, thanks to the Western Cape Department of Human Settlements that has given her mother, September (44), a two bedroom-house.

An initiative between Eastern Cape state entities and Potato SA is set to turn former subsistence farmers into commercial potato farmers.

The farmers in the OR Tambo (ORT) District, which includes Mthatha, Mqanduli and Ngqeleni, have multiplied their production volumes since the start of the mentorship and development programme three years ago.

Villagers who revived disused pineapple farms in Bingqala near Ngqushwa have built a growing agricultural enterprise.

The Bingqala Pineapple Co-operative was started in 2014 by community members who were employees of the Ciskei Agricultural Corporation (Ulimocor) Farms, which were previously run by a parastatal of the Ciskei government.