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Mthokozisi Zwane (32) is the owner of Zamantimande Mix Farming, a grain, livestock and crop farm that produces potatoes, sweet potatoes, spinach, dry beans and maize, and raises free-range chickens, cattle and goats.

Zwane’s business is based in Mkhondo, Mpumalanaga.

He says agriculture can help fight poverty and address food security. “Many families within the black society often don’t know where their next meal will come from.”

He added that he grew up in a household where his grandfather was growing their food and learnt about farming.

Fikiswa Fuxwana is one of the local people who can now provide for her family thanks to the construction of the Msikaba Bridge which forms part of the South African National Roads Agency’s N2 Wild Coast project.

“I started working here in 2020 as a general worker, I got promoted as a site clerk, my job includes making sure that plants have fuel”, said Fuxwana.

She added that before the construction of the bridge she struggled with employment opportunities.

To win the battle against gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF), everyone should be aware of the National Strategic Plan on gender-based violence and femicide (NSP on GBVF) and the issues it attempts to address. 

This is according to End GBVF Collective Communications Coordinator Candice Ludick, who spoke to Vuk’uzenzele at the end of the Second Presidential Summit on GBVF held recently.

The responsibility to end gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) lies with men, not women. 

This is according to President Cyril Ramaphosa, who recently addressed the second Presidential Summit on GBVF at the Gallagher Estate in Midrand, Gauteng under the theme: “Accountability, Acceleration and Amplification, NOW!”

The first summit was held in 2018. This year, the summit assessed progress made in fulfilling the commitments made at the first summit in implementing the National Strategic Plan on GBVF.

The learners of Soshanguve Automative School of Specialisation are well on their way to becoming future engineers and solving the South Africa's transport and energy problems.

These pupils built a solar-powered train.

A group of unemployed people – all living with disabilities in Kuruman in the Northern Cape – have been given a chance to better their lives by Assmang Black Rock Mine Operations. 

Amabal’engwe Game Farm and Tourism, the first black-owned game farm in the Western Cape, hopes to soon offer accommodation, hunting and game viewing. 

The Nico Lerm Trust and the Mossel Bay African Farmers Union (MAFU), as part of government’s land redistribution programme, established the farm, located in part of the Mossel Bay and Hessequa Municipalities, in 2016.

If you are parenting an adopted child that is a survivor of gender-based violence (GBV) it is important for you and the child to get psychological counselling.

This is according to Keabetsoe Sekoboto the Executive Director and Adoption Social Worker for Setshabelo Family and Child Services, based in Botshabelo in the Free State.

“We recommend families, mostly adoptive families to be trauma-informed so that they provide care that is responsive to the needs of their children but also facilitates a sense of safety, belonging, and healing.

Coming from Cape Town to Johannesburg to fulfil her entrepreneurial dream, Tumi Khobane (32) is celebrating Africa through coffee.

After completing her studies and moving to Johannesburg, Khobane’s future was given a shot of caffeine-fuelled adrenaline when she fell in love with coffee and established a family business, Monate Coffee in 2017.
 The business is funded by shareholders including a business loan from ABSA.Khobane says she has dedicates 90% of her time to ensuring that her start-up is a success.

In 2019, Itumeleng Lekomanyane (30) spent his last money to buy ingredients for sandwiches that he planned to sell at Johannesburg taxi ranks.

Unemployed and with a daughter to raise, he knew he needed to come up with a plan to earn money.

Today, he is the proud owner of Sandwich Nton Ntons, which has two stores, bakes customised cakes, offers catering services and still sells sandwiches and other goods on the street.