The swish of long grass and the twittering of birds are complemented by the song and laughter of a group of grass collectors in rural Mpumalanga. They spend the cooler morning…
Villagers gathered for the launch of a multipurpose community centre in Matibidi last month as jam-packed tourist buses whizzed past the rural village to upmarket resorts in…
Sarah Mazwai and her family are counting the days to March: they will be moving into a new four-roomed house after living in informal settlements for the past 15 years. Mazwai is…
As he clutches the title deed, or "happiness letter" as he calls it, to his family’s new R20 000 home, Themba Banthom relates how poverty, illness and unemployment have ravaged…
Eleven-year-old Lerato Nkosi dreams of becoming a doctor. To realise her ambition, she dodges her mother’s protective gaze to join her boisterous peers on their walk to…
Twelve-year-old Promise Sibitane is a mournful figure as she stands at the entrance of the Thembalethu home-based care centre. She stares in the direction of her mother’s old…
Four Limpopo women have literally plucked the opportunity to make money from trees. The group near Tzaneen has set up a small factory and can barely keep pace with the demand for…
You can usually tell when a woman has been physically abused. The bruises are all too visible. But emotional abuse is harder to detect. Its wounds are well-hidden inside an…
The 60-year-old woman from Ndwendwe tribal trust near Durban is the brawn behind a successful brickmaking project run by middle-aged women. "You’ve got to use your brains to make…
What began as an emergency plan by 15 sangomas to save valuable natural resources is becoming a feasible business venture
