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Traditional clothing designer Nkazimulo Ngidi will soon supply the bulk of his outfits to informal traders who lost their stock during the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) floods in April, after he was appointed by the Small Enterprise Development Agency (Seda) to be part of its flood relief programme.

In an extraordinary research paper, Nonjabulo Ximba, the daughter of the late legendary musician Vusi Ximba, analysed her father’s songs for her dissertation to earn her Master of Arts degree from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN).

A group of women from Pomeroy in KwaZulu-Natal have found a way to make ends meet after being given a helping hand by government.

The resumption of commuter rail services on the Pretoria to Pienaarspoort line on 26 September has lessened the strain on commuters’ budgets.

Commuters were severely impacted when the service was suspended for major rehabilitation work, but they can now travel safely on the new electric trains – for only R8.50 a trip.

A KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) agricultural cooperative has ventured into the lamb feedlot business, which will help improve the province’s lamb production rate.

Not many women are part of the South African fuel retail industry, but Queen Majola (39) is gracefully making her way in a man’s world.

Majola is the proud dealer of a BP service station in Cala in the Eastern Cape.

Mpumi Maesela’s passion for empowering female farmers drove her out of her job as a banker and into agriculture.

Maesela says after spending many years working as a banker for the Women’s Development Bank – which focuses on funding and empowering women in business, especially in rural areas – she wanted to do more to help.

When Limpopo-born Thabang Monyepao (26) abandoned a future career in aircraft engineering in 2018 to start a company that manufactures toilet paper, he knew he had to make it work.

At the time, he was doing an internship for his aircraft engineering qualification.

Inspired by the idiom ‘a candle loses nothing by lighting another’, Thami Gazide is making an impact in his community through the community gardens initiative he started when he was just 16.

The 22-year-old final-year international relations student from Middelburg in Mpumalanga founded Philanathi Golden Stars, a non-profit organisation, in 2016, to combat poverty and hunger in his community.