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The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has approved 53 206 student appeals for the 2023 academic year, pending registration, at a public university or Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) college.

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TOURISM MONTH

Pretty Ngubane pulls out all the stops to ensure that clients of her travel agency get the best possible service and word of their great service is travelling fast.

YOUTH MATTERS

An aspiring analytical chemist is on the cusp of fulfilling his untapped potential, largely thanks to a bursary he received from the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) when still in high school.

Mmola Desmond Kutullo (22) of Namakgale, near Phalaborwa, in Limpopo, is a beneficiary of this bursary.

Eight years ago, Tshidi Mokoma walked away from her job as a tax consultant to venture into the world of rabbit farming.

That leap of faith has paid off and today she is reaping the rewards. 

Her interest in breeding rabbits for their highly nutritious meat was sparked when her father was diagnosed with cancer while she was still in high school.

YOUTH MATTERS

Being a woman in a built environment is no walk in the park, especially for a young black professional. 

At 30, Abongile Mntu Mketsu, director for infrastructure procurement at the Department of Transport, is already curving her path in the male-dominated industry. 

“Industry conditions are not always favourable to females, especially site conditions and the constant relocation,” the Mdantsane, in East London, Eastern Cape, native told Vuk’uzenzele. 

Youth Matters

Concerned by the trend of science graduates struggling to secure employment, a young agricultural technologist set up an innovative business that is fast becoming a force to be reckoned with.  

Mmapula Lesailane, 27, is the director of Tzaneen-based award-winning agri-science company, Mater Pluviam Holdings. The company, which currently employs five people, aims to find scientific solutions and close the gap between science knowledge and its application.

YOUTH MATTERS

While South Africa continues to tackle poverty and unemployment, a youth-owned cooperative in Mpumalanga believes that riches are in the soil.

Intandekho Agricultural Primary Cooperative was in 2019 registered by six young people of Amsterdam in Mkhondo Local Municipality.

Nominations for National Orders are open highest form nominations are open for the country’s of recognition the 2024 National Orders.

The awards to individuals who have contributed towards a non-racial, non- sexist, a democratic and prosperous South Africa as well as improving the lives of citizens as considered by the Constitution.

The President, as the Grand Patron, awards the National Orders to deserving individuals.

Closing date for nomination is 31 August 2023.