Events

By Yolanda Wessels Sadly, our country struggles with an alarming number of unwanted pets. Although the Animal Welfare Protection Non-profit organisations operate on a national basis, they struggle to keep up with the millions of unwanted pets, uneducated people, and increasing lack of funding as none of them is funded by the government and are […]

By Steuart Pennington ‘WE WERE ALWAYS HERE’ contains 42 remarkable, and inspirational, stories about the work of Black entrepreneurs, inventors, ‘out of the box’ thinkers that have made their mark across the world, but in South Africa and the USA in particular. The stories are short, easy to read, and often confounding in their ingenuity.

“I’ve been to 22 graduations for all my daughter-girls who came from the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy in South Africa to colleges and universities across the United States,” Winfrey wrote on Instagram. “This one was extra special. Daughter-girl Bongeka first graduated summa cum laude at Spelman, then she got her master’s degree at Oxford, and this

It is a common reality tied to the coming of age in South Africa that a young person from a rural area will move to the big city and seek better opportunities. While some embrace this new journey, for many, leaving their families for unfamiliar and challenging environments is a tough choice. Those who choose

From cleaning offices in the heart of Mbombela CBD, to currently being a top graduate from the University of Cambridge Scholarship Recipient in the Sustainable Development Goals : Law and Policy certification. HRH Princess Eurika Mogane, learnt early in life that things aren’t easy and one needs to be committed above average in order to

      By Mamapudi Nkgadima To solve South Africa’s dismaying youth unemployment challenge we must end the pervasive narrative that South Africans, and particularly young unemployed South Africans, are reliant on the government. It’s quite simply not true, as a recent African Response survey has revealed. Among the respondents who classified themselves as unemployed

Unemployment directly impacts over 4,7 million individuals between the ages of 15 – 34 years old – there is no doubt that youth employment remains a critical challenge. Compounding this challenge is also the reality that young females often display heightened vulnerability in the labour market when compared to their young male counterparts. Yet, amidst

By Thabo Motlhabi Chairperson Mrs. Olga Moji of Woasa (Waste Oil Organization) based in Soweto, Dobsonville, and  Zuuebekom, recently held a meeting with the Rose Foundation, hosted at Toadbury Hotel Country, on 17 Friday, May 2024. Woasa Waste Oil Organization represents the voice of the voiceless in the waste oil industry, especially black people who

By Steuart Pennington Clearly, there is much water that needs to flow under the bridge in the next few weeks/months as the GNU finds its feet. Surely there will be many hiccoughs along the way. But does this mean we face an inevitable choice of a range of pessimistic vs realistic vs optimistic scenarios as