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Young female entrepreneurs’ natural haircare products are ensuring healthy ethnic hair in South Africa and abroad.

When Mantshadi Mokoena (33) struggled to find haircare products suitable for her hair, she started making her own.

In 2014 she launched the Nalane Group, with her younger sister Karabo, to produce natural haircare products under the Nalane ea Africa brand.

The Department of Basic Education (DBE) defines a school code of conduct as a document that spells out the rules that learners must follow and the disciplinary system that will be enforced if the rules are broken.

The department’s spokesperson Elijah Mhlanga says that a school’s code of conduct applies to all learners when they are on the school’s premises, when they are representing the school or attending a school function.

When people use the Internet, cell phones, or other devices to send or post text or images intended to hurt, intimidate or embarrass another person – this is cyberbullying.

It can be a painful experience, especially when it affects school learners who are also using technology and social media to communicate with friends and family.

A Free State dairy farmer is doing all she can to turn her dairy farm into a profitable business.

Helping her father manage his dairy farm in her youth has ensured that Beauty Mokoena (31) is now regarded one of the best subsistence farmers in the Free State.

All South Africans must respond to Gender- Based Violence (GBV) and femicide.

In 2018 President Cyril Ramaphosa took a stand against this scourge by hosting the first GBV Summit in South Africa.

This was a platform where all sectors of South Africa which included government, civil society and survivors of GBV where under one umbrella to find solutions on how the country can stop abuse.

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Traveling or working abroad can be exciting, but it can also be traumatic if one is faced with an emergency or death. 

The Department of International Relations and Cooperation's (DIRCO) Consular Service has the “Travel Smart” campaign to guide South Africans on what to look out for when visiting or applying for work outside national borders.

The Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) is inviting businesses in the food sector to submit applications to participate in the 2019 World Food Moscow fair in Russia.

The World Food Moscow will be held from 24 to 27 September 2019 in Moscow, Russia.

The World Food Moscow  was established in 1991. It is a major exhibition serving the global food and drinks industry.

The provision of money to pay for historical debt is a welcome relief for the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) funded university students.

An amount of R967 million has been allocated by the Department of Higher Education and Training for the payment of fees for students owing ‘historical debt’.

The department said the money would assist students who owed fees from the previous year.

Advanced Certificate in Public Administration student Abongile Mbonja said the money will help pay her debt of R37 000.