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The Electoral Commission of South Africa has formally launched the 2024 National and Provincial Elections (NPE 2024) programme to declare its readiness to host millions of eligible voters at over 23 290 voting stations across the country next year.

The theme for NPE 2024 will be: “Your Democracy, Own It” - celebrating the fruits of democracy by showcasing different, real-life experiences of young South Africans from all corners of the country.

Sisters Mo Morongwe Mokone and Michelle Mokone have elevated South Africa’s innovative décor scene by breaking into the lucrative United States of America (USA) market. 

However, they are not stopping there and are now planning to grow their footprint beyond the USA and enter new markets, such as Europe and the United Arab Emirates.

The pair are the co-owners of Mo’s Crib, a company that produces a range of handmade home décor products.  Their product range includes handwoven baskets, planters, trays, wall art and outdoor items.

Theatre enthusiasts are invited to watch a groundbreaking and emotionally charged theatrical production where the power of love and the resilience of the human spirit intertwine with the echoes of a painful history.

The South African State Theatre (SAST) invites audiences to come experience a captivating journey of invasion, defiance, and liberation with its latest dance theatre spectacle, titled "Magnificent 7 - The Invasion".

Seeing debris being dumped near Naturena, South of Johannesburg has inspired Phethuxolo Ngoyi to run a successful business in recycling construction and demolition waste. 

The 49-year-old Ngoyi of Emdeni in Soweto is the owner of Vanquisher Building Solutions, a construction company that uses 80 percent waste material and 20 percent new material in all its construction projects.

A group of skilled seamstresses united to establish Reotlwile-Sizwele Sewing Primary Cooperative, a thriving business located in the township of Ratanda in Heidelberg, Gauteng.

The cooperative's chairperson Esther Moloi attributes its success to a business startup training programme facilitated by the Department of Employment and Labour (DEL) in 2003. 

The solve for tomorrow competition reveals the untapped brilliance of South Africa’s rural students

A public-private partnership has successfully unearthed transformative solutions to the country's most urgent challenges, and the beauty of it all is that these solutions come from learners in rural schools.

In January 2023, Samsung South Africa and the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) initiated a collaborative competition focused on grade 11 and 12 learners in rural schools across South Africa's nine provinces.

Remember the name Themba Mkhangeli, 29, the next time you hold the freshly minted R2 coin, which he designed.

The Western Cape-based  Mkhangeli is among  designers responsible for the new circulation coin series released by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) in September.

The series features deep ecology as the overarching theme and is the first complete set of coins to be issued in the country’s democratic dispensation.