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…
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…
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…
Standard Bank CEO Sim Tshabalala wrote this message to his staff in an internal memo in 2016: Last year ended with great tumult in our political economy and that tumult…
An emotional Cherene de Wet was close to tears as she was trying to think of different ways to track down her dog, named Lulu. The Maltese Yorkie had been…
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…
Janine Mabuza was just 12 when she had to drop out of school to look after her parents and take care of the household. When they died from cancer, she…
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