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,…
A water drive that started as a modest plea on Facebook has grown into a nationwide campaign co-ordinated by ordinary people on social media. “It has snowballed into something I…
When you walk into the office of the 28-year-old mayor of Ithaca, New York, you get an instant taste of what it means to have a young person running your…
A group of Mt. Pleasant, Tennessee, police officers are being recognized for going out of their way to help an elderly man over the weekend. Saturday night, the 79-year-old disabled…
A helpless dog was rescued from a five metre deep sewage drain by the Durban & Coast SPCA and the Durban North Fire Station early on yesterday morning. It is…
Self-made South African billionaire Allan Gray and his family have given away to charity their entire controlling stake of the Allan Gray investment company and its offshore partner Orbis, BusinessDayLive…
A junior in college named Max posted a cry for help on Reddit titled “I just don’t care about myself” which garnered thousands of thoughtful replies. But one reply was…
While temperatures neared freezing in Manhattan over the weekend, this good deed warmed the hearts of passengers on a Brooklyn-bound subway. Lazaro Nolasco boarded his train Friday around 10 p.m….
At the age of 4, Winnie Harlow developed what is known at vitiligo, a condition that causes discolored skin blotches. As the cells that produced her melanin died, her self-confidence…
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