POSITIVELY ALIVE

Aids

Elsie Bogatswe is very lucky to be alive. Infected with HIV in 1988 during the early years of the pandemic, she remembers that for most people back then it meant …

A SECOND CHANCE

Medupi

“This is my everything, it’s all I wanted. If I don’t make a success of it, what’s the point of getting this far?” says Lynette October as sparks fly off …

BRIDGING GAPS

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Sibongile Seribe could just about see the factory where she works in Newcastle from her house in Madadeni. Yet every day she would take a 30 minute taxi ride to …

CELEBRATING LIFE

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Liezl Potgieter still cries when she remembers the 18th of January 2012. That day floodwaters from tropical storm Dando destroyed the home she shared with fiancé Duwayne Schwartz on a farm near Hoedspruit …

WALKING TALL

Junior

Junior Mohlabi can’t suppress the shine of pride in his eyes as he looks around his factory with its rows of gleaming leather shoes.  “This is a dream come true,” …

DREAMING BIG

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Twenty one year old Modjadji Ramphelo is something of a local celebrity in her rural village near Tzaneen. As the first child from Manareng village to attend university, Modjadji is chasing her …

COMING SOON

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These stories you have heard here today, are only a glimpse of much more to come. Millions of lives continue to be changed by your tax money, each with their …