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Mpumi Maesela’s passion for empowering female farmers drove her out of her job as a banker and into agriculture.

Maesela says after spending many years working as a banker for the Women’s Development Bank – which focuses on funding and empowering women in business, especially in rural areas – she wanted to do more to help.

When Limpopo-born Thabang Monyepao (26) abandoned a future career in aircraft engineering in 2018 to start a company that manufactures toilet paper, he knew he had to make it work.

At the time, he was doing an internship for his aircraft engineering qualification.

Inspired by the idiom ‘a candle loses nothing by lighting another’, Thami Gazide is making an impact in his community through the community gardens initiative he started when he was just 16.

The 22-year-old final-year international relations student from Middelburg in Mpumalanga founded Philanathi Golden Stars, a non-profit organisation, in 2016, to combat poverty and hunger in his community.

The Northern Cape Department of Health has absorbed 99 pharmacy assistant learners as permanent staff.

MANY WOMEN living in mining communities, far from home and without money of their own, are trapped in abusive relationships.

An eight-room shelter in Rustenburg in the North West is giving victims of gender-based violence (GBV) the support they need to leave abusive relationships.

If you are a South African citizen who is older than 60, in need of 24-hour care and preferably a recipient of an old age grant or pension, you can apply to live in an older persons’ residential facility.

To apply, you need to visit the care centre you would like to stay at so that an application form can be completed.

The Social Development office nearest your home can tell you which care facilities are close to your home.

Mfundo Mxolisi Ngwenya (30) from Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, is one of the few black stem cell donors in the country. 

OFTEN ISOLATED by their communities, many people who live with albinism suffer in silence as life becomes unbearable.

The dehumanisation of people living with albinism, especially in many sub-Saharan societies, leads to severe depression – often with terrible consequences.

Globally, depression is a serious mental health disorder that affects people from all walks of life. Severe cases of depression can lead to suicide, which the World Health Organisation lists as the fourth leading cause of death for people aged between 15 and 29.

For every person living in this country, the past weeks of load shedding have been extremely frustrating and challenging. The widespread public anger is wholly justified.

With Eskom forced to once more implement load shedding to protect the national grid, individuals, households and businesses have had to contend with power interruptions for up to four hours at a time.