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…
Fish delivery drivers know a thing or two about being slippery. Ray Smith, a 38-year-old delivery driver from Grimsby, UK, spent 5 months sneaking the words “Will you marry me?”…
Common courtesy and kindness to our fellow man takes nothing from us, but to another, it can make their day. This is a story from a college student, who went…
South Africa, we need to talk… not sure why the holiday gods have done this, or if the declining economy is going to survive this, but there is a massive…
Three years ago, Lizel and Jaco Esterhuizen were told their son had only a month to live because of a tumour in his abdomen. On Wednesday, 6-year-old Jacques donned his…
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…
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