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Determined to get into the male-dominated steel industry, Shocky Nengovhela from Middleburg in Mpumalanga, left her job and started her own steel engineering company, Tembo Engineering.

“Mechanical engineering is my passion. I have always wanted to get involved in this industry. We are a growing company. It was not easy to get to where we are now,” she said.

Nengovhela holds a BTech in Mechanical Engineering from the Tshwane University of Technology.

The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment’s Working on Fire (WoF) programme has deployed a second contingent of 200 firefighters and 13 managers – Mzanzi Hotshots 2 - to assist in ongoing fire suppression operations in the Canadian Province of Alberta.

This follows the deployment of 200 firefighters and 15 managers - on 3 June 2023, this group will return on 11 July.

The second group of firefighters left for Edmonton, Canada, on 14 June 2023 from Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport and are expected to return on 21 July.

Zakhele Sono (36) believes that choosing to be an artisan was the best decision of his life. He believes that young people should consider artisanship as a viable career choice.

Sono, from Nkomazi in Mpumalanga, holds a National Certificate in Engineering and Related Design from the Ehlanzeni Technical Vocational Education Training (TVET) College in kaMaqhekeza, Mpumalanga.

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Good day Vuk’uzenzele

My name is Seeiso Alfred Majela from Worcester in the Western Cape.

I am writing this message regarding Budibeng Shinning star Electrical Engineering construction.

As the directors of the company we would like to know how we can be assisted with funding for our business.

Warm regards

Seeiso Alfred Majela

Reply

Dear Seeiso Alfred Majela

Thank you for your email.

Efforts to improve the lives of South Africans will only succeed when we effectively address the challenges in local government.

A search for solutions to a foot sweat condition has seen a Vereeniging, Gauteng woman develop a treatment product that she now sells to others facing a similar challenge.

Refiloe Mohono, 27, together with her business partner Optimist Philiso, 33, first embarked on the journey in 2018.

They own O&R Products which is a company that gave birth to Complete Comfort.

This business manufactures organic solutions for foot care and revitalisation.

With the highest interest rates in a decade, many South Africans are feeling the pinch and are looking for ways of to make ends meet.

July is National Savings Month, the National Credit Regulator (NRC), an agency of the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition responsible
for the regulation of the South African credit industry, offers tips that can help ease the burden of managing debt to insure a nation of savers.

Tips on managing debt during these tough economic times:

The Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA) is encouraging community media broadcasters to apply for grant funding.

Community broadcast projects, including radio, television, and community print publications, as well as small commercial print are invited to apply.

Prince Yabo (24) is an urban ranger in Hillbrow situated at the Johannesburg central business district. Until March 2023, he spent the greater part of his day begging in the corner stores of the precinct.

This changed when he was given an opportunity to be part of the Urban Space Management (USM) initiative which cleans the streets of Hillbrow and aims to keep the area safe.

 “A lot of us were just on the corner stores hustling for money and not getting what we wanted,” he said.

Yabo has been part of the USM since April 2023.