​​Abongile Menye
/ 28 August 2024

​​Abongile Menye

Nofezile Special Care Centre started in the backyard of Abongile Menye near Qonce ( formerly King Williams Town) in the Eastern Cape. She was taking care of one of her siblings with intellectual disabilities in a small room, then other parents became interested, and she ended up taking care of seven children with special needs. […]

Pauline Mokae
/ 28 August 2024

Pauline Mokae

Pauline Mokae has been taking care of those who need help since 2008. She started with a soup kitchen, using money from her own pocket. Following that, she ran a safe home and an aftercare centre. Today she is the founder and director of Wheatlands Community Care for the Aged in Randfontein, Johannesburg. Pauline says […]

Caroline Tiba
/ 28 August 2024

Caroline Tiba

Caroline Tiba is the founder and director of the Rotanganedza Community Care in the West Rand and more recently in Limpopo. She is from the rural area of Brandvlei in the Karoo region. When she was in her teens, she experienced epileptic seizures. Soon after that, she had a stroke. But she is a fighter […]

Lerato Thekiso
/ 28 August 2024

Lerato Thekiso

Lerato Thekiso is an attorney and entrepreneur. She runs a legal advisory commercial law consultancy. In addition, she founded the Unleashed Leadership Development Foundation. Its programmes include CareerLink, which brings together unemployed people aged 18 to 35 to provide them with mentoring, bursaries and the opportunity of work. Another programme is Refuelling Leaders, a platform […]

Tracey Davies
/ 28 August 2024

Tracey Davies

Tracey Davies is the executive director of nonprofit shareholder activism organisation Just Share, which is at the cutting edge of corporate accountability in South Africa, using responsible investment and sustainable finance to drive action to combat climate change and reduce inequality. Just Share was established in 2017 in recognition that no one was focusing on […]

Lipalesa Morake
/ 28 August 2024

Lipalesa Morake

Lipalesa Morake is the director of Africa youth development at Global Citizen. She is responsible for managing youth activities that provide direct services and complement the organisation’s goal to double down on Africa building on what has been achieved in South Africa with Mandela 100; Nigeria with Global Citizen Live; and last year in Ghana […]

Agreement between ‘dangerous’ Chinese-SA project and UN must be retracted, say activists
/ 8 July 2022

Agreement between ‘dangerous’ Chinese-SA project and UN must be retracted, say activists

United Nations’ support for a Limpopo coal and steel plant must be withdrawn as it contravenes green and human rights, say petition signatories

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