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A drug cocktail called nyaope, whoonga or wunga is destroying the lives of many young people in South Africa.

Addiction to nyaope is on the rise and has debilitating side effects on the health of users.

Nyaope, which has heroin as its main component, is a street level drug that is often mixed with antiretrovirals‚ tik‚ cocaine and cannabis.

June is National Blood Donor Month, which means that every adult South African with healthy blood should consider joining this worthy cause.

Did you know that one blood donation can save up to three lives? The South African National Blood Service (SANBS) is always in desperate need of blood donors.

Designing clothes for her dolls as a little girl inspired Eulenda Sambo (33) to become a fashion designer, and now she gets to dress people instead of toys.

Growing up in Daantjie in Mpumalanga, Sambo used to watch her mother sew curtains at home. One day, her parents bought a toy sewing machine for her, which functioned similarly to a real machine.

In 2012, Mike Maziya, the co-owner of manufacturing company Verigreen, noticed a woman carrying a bundle of plastic waste on her head. When he asked what she was doing, the woman said that she was unemployed and was selling plastic to recycling plants in order to earn a income.

Mike’s wife, Thina, was touched by this story of hardship and believed that there was an opportunity to uplift such women and help them earn better incomes.

A community-based care programme is giving hands-on support to vulnerable children and youth in a flexible, real-time manner.

The Department of Social Development has in the past five years managed to reach over one million children and youth through a community-based care and early intervention service called Isibindi.

As South Africa celebrates and reflects on 25 years of freedom this year it’s fitting to also reflect on our nation’s Coat of Arms, which was launched on Freedom Day, on 27 April 2000.

The South African Theatre gives young people who dream of a life on stage or in the wings the chance to take the limelight.

A premier league netball player from Wattville in Gauteng believes that the Netball World Cup to be held in Cape Town in a few years’ time, will open doors for township players.

Your heritage gives you a sense of identity and rootedness – it is essential to building your future, believes a young academic.

If you do not know where you come from, you cannot know where you are going – that is why understanding your culture and heritage is important.

This is according to Thapelo Mokoatsi (29), who is a History PhD candidate at Rhodes University in Makhanda,  Eastern Cape.