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Theatre enthusiasts are invited to watch a groundbreaking and emotionally charged theatrical production where the power of love and the resilience of the human spirit intertwine with the echoes of a painful history.

The South African State Theatre (SAST) invites audiences to come experience a captivating journey of invasion, defiance, and liberation with its latest dance theatre spectacle, titled "Magnificent 7 - The Invasion".

Seeing debris being dumped near Naturena, South of Johannesburg has inspired Phethuxolo Ngoyi to run a successful business in recycling construction and demolition waste. 

The 49-year-old Ngoyi of Emdeni in Soweto is the owner of Vanquisher Building Solutions, a construction company that uses 80 percent waste material and 20 percent new material in all its construction projects.

A group of skilled seamstresses united to establish Reotlwile-Sizwele Sewing Primary Cooperative, a thriving business located in the township of Ratanda in Heidelberg, Gauteng.

The cooperative's chairperson Esther Moloi attributes its success to a business startup training programme facilitated by the Department of Employment and Labour (DEL) in 2003. 

The solve for tomorrow competition reveals the untapped brilliance of South Africa’s rural students

A public-private partnership has successfully unearthed transformative solutions to the country's most urgent challenges, and the beauty of it all is that these solutions come from learners in rural schools.

In January 2023, Samsung South Africa and the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) initiated a collaborative competition focused on grade 11 and 12 learners in rural schools across South Africa's nine provinces.

Remember the name Themba Mkhangeli, 29, the next time you hold the freshly minted R2 coin, which he designed.

The Western Cape-based  Mkhangeli is among  designers responsible for the new circulation coin series released by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) in September.

The series features deep ecology as the overarching theme and is the first complete set of coins to be issued in the country’s democratic dispensation.

An ambitious streetwear brand is soaring to new heights, thanks to the impressive groundwork of its determined founder Sandiso Sithole, 26, of Eskhawini in KwaZulu-Natal.

Sithole is the brain behind Eagle Eye Clothing, a trendy streetwear brand targeted at the youth.

Speaking to Vuk’uzenzele, he reminisced how the journey started in 2015.

In a tale of resilience and entrepreneurial spirit, a 26-year-old Gontse Hlongwane  from Hammanskraal in Pretoria refused to let setbacks crush his honey production dream.

After his initial venture failed, Hlongwane recommitted to his training in beekeeping with Elephants, Rhinos & People (ERP), a community upliftment initiative that not only mentors fledgling beekeepers but also guarantees a market for their honey.

This second stint at training was in 2018 and he is now the proud founder of Dinokasi Bees and Honey cooperative.

Scores of residents in Mtititi village in Limpopo are able to escape poverty on a daily basis, thanks to community food gardens that are run through Thusong Service Centres.

Government established Thusong Service Centres (formerly known as Multi-Purpose Community Centres) in 1999 to refocus government services to meeting the basic needs of people, particularly those who live below the poverty line in rural and disadvantaged communities.

Poverty is a harsh reality for many South Africans and has devastating health deficits such as malnutrition, especially among children.