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The Western Cape Department of Agriculture runs a programme that helps new and established farmers with a support mechanism from day one – when they need help with funding– until they become self-sustainable.

The Farmer Support and Development Programme has helped young people like Wayne Mansfield (33) from Paarl, who has gone from working as a hawker for his uncle at the Cape Town Market during his school days to exporting his own lemons that he farms on a leased piece of land.

Kediemetse Moloeloe wants to put Thaba Nchu in the Free State on the map through her passion for gymnastics as she teaches young children and youth about this sport.

Sport, Arts & Culture

An award-winning  play is the perfect vehicle to get Youth Month dialogue started.

Social categorisations such as race, class and gender, as well as the ideologies of patriarchy and sexism, are currently being tackled head-on in a play titled The Fall.

Ithala winner’s rags to riches story is a tale that every struggling youngster needs to hear.

Phumlani Ngwenya’s entrepreneurial spirit started as flicker of light and today is a beacon of inspiration sending out a bright message that great things can come from small beginnings.

Sport, Arts & Culture

The Hexecutioner becomes first African boxer to simultaneously win three world titles.

International Relations / Africa News

The Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Bulelani Magwanishe, was among the African leaders who gathered at the 6th African Union Ministers of Trade (AMOT) meeting in Dakar, Senegal, to discuss continental free trade issues.

The meeting was preceded by the 11th Meeting of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Negotiations Forum and the 6th Meeting of the AfCFTA Committee of Senior Officials of Trade.

One of the country’s oldest agricultural empowerment projects has won a massive export contract.

South African wine company has secured a one-year contract to export its range of premium wines to China.

Western Cape-based Thandi Wines sealed the deal on the margins of the 19th SIAL China International Trade Fair for Food which was recently held in Shanghai under the theme “Inspire Food Business”.

International Relations / Africa News

The emerging economies grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) is ready for its 10th summit hosted by South Africa next month.

Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Lindiwe Sisulu believes this year’s BRICS summit is a testimony to the co-operation and commitment to implement resolutions taken at previous BRICS summits.

A private-public partnership focusing on nutrition education will help ensure that children are well fed and healthy.

The Mngomezulu sisters Thandi and Neli from Molweni in Durban KwaZulu-Natal are members of different political parties but are able to live in harmony.

Thandi is a dedicated  National Freedom Party (NFP) card carrying member while Neli is a passionate ANC (African National Congress) member.