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The 36-year-old former maths teacher, who hails from Kanyamazane in Mpumalanga, has always loved wooden furniture and three years ago, switched chalk for chisel when she decided to do a course in carpentry. 

Michelle Mathuloe (31) is a good example on how to turn a bad situation into a flourishing business.

After being retrenched from her job as a Pharmacist Assistant in 2016, she took-up an opportunity to be trained on how to manufacture furniture using pallets and car tires.

A Kung Fu development squad that excelled against 6 000 athletes from 32 countries has shown that sport can help overcome life’s obstacles.

A musical production, Freedom, is returning to stage at the South African State Theatre to tell the story of what occurred during the #FeesMustFall campaigns in 2015 and 2016.

Black female-owned Siwela Wines is helping to transform the South African wine industry by challenging traditional conventions.

Siwela Masoga is shaking up the wine industry. She is a 28-year-old black female winemaker in a white male-dominated sector and is determined that fellow South Africans join her on a wine revolution.

Want a safer community? Neighbourhood watches take responsibility for their security by working closely with the police to prevent and combat crime.

All African states celebrate Africa Day annually on 25 May, to commemorate the establishment of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1963.

On 25 May 1963 leaders from 32 African nations converged in Ethiopia‘s capital, Addis Ababa, to form the OAU. It became known as the African Union (AU) in 2001 and South Africa became a member of the AU following its first democratic elections in 1994.

The Sanitary Dignity Framework Programme will have a lasting impact on schools and local communities.

The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has assured South Africans that it will only announce the results for elections when it is 100 percent confident in the integrity and legitimacy of the results.

The Commission’s Chief Electoral Officer Sy Mamabolo held a briefing on Thursday at the National Results Operations Centre in Pretoria.

Proper research and planning are essential when starting a business.

This is the advice of Marcia Ramatswana of the Small Enterprise Development Agency (Seda).

“Before starting a business, you must have an idea and test the viability of that idea,” said Ramatswana. The Seda business advisor also emphasised the need to check if there is a market for the product or service that you will be offering. If many other businesses offer the same thing as you, your business might not survive.