An amazing South African good samaritan has offered to pay for the university education of two bright matric pupils from a rural KwaZulu-Natal school. Peter Harvey, 71, said after he…
What are the chances a 6th-grader from the biggest slum in Kenya ends up on stage in New York City, speaking to thousands of people? Not very great, but Eunice…
John O’Malley was so impressed and inspired by the hospice nurses who tended to his wife, he abandoned retirement and went back to school to become one. O’Malley began taking…
The last thing Alan Rickman did (professionally) before he died is voiceover for this video of a tortoise eating a strawberry – for a good cause! By watching this video,…
Just off the coast of Hawaii, the Pacific Ocean is a go-to place for any diving enthusiast, but among all the stingrays and exotic fish, this diving crew got one…
Manny the cat loves to take selfies, or at least fondle GoPro cameras. According to Instagram user @yoremahm, Manny learned to use the camera by chance when it reached out…
Principal Nhlanhla Dube has a lesson for the rest of South Africa: how to beat a serial rapist, overcome a tiny government subsidy, a scarcity of textbooks and no laboratory…
A 66-year-old grandmother from Durban has just received her matric certificate, passing with great aplomb to boot. Blossom Msibi was part of the class of 2015 to successfully receive a…
There are epic stories, and then there are truly epic stories. A video for Western Sydney University’s “Unlimited” ad campaign profiles one such story — that of Deng Thiak Adut,…
South Africans are becoming more helpful to strangers in need, is a key finding from the latest World Giving Index. Published annually by the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), this Index…
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