An incredibly inspirational post about South Africans helping each other is teaching us all a very important lesson. Johannesburg, South Africa (18 January 2016) – Mainstream media can often…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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“Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed.” - Bob Riley
