Muziwakhe Singwane

Many schoolchildren in South Africa’s deep rural areas have Einsteinian ideals of making a world of difference, writes Muziwakhe Singwane Youthful ingenuity can turn township rubble into floor polishers, electric curtain openers and even 200km/hour car engines, but poverty dashes the hopes of studying further and being taken seriously as innovators for many rural school […]

Sarah Mahlangu is cleaning up her neighbourhood by turning cans into culture and rags into robes.

Lemons are sweet for 74 Mpumalanga farm workers who have secured a 20-year contract to supply a United States soft-drink company with 875 tons of the fruit a year. The deal was struck through Hall & Sons, the biggest citrus producer in the Lowveld, and will earn the group about R1-million a year.