by Dev Ops | Sep 4, 2020 | Covid-19 Heroes Editor’s Choice 2020
Seeing things work motivates Petri Redelinghuys, founder of the local business platform Say Siyabonga. It was created to save local businesses during the Covid-19 pandemic by buying and selling vouchers for goods and services from them. Say Siyabonga is morphing into...
by Dev Ops | Sep 4, 2020 | Covid-19 Heroes Editor’s Choice 2020
Covid-19 facts and figures have become a global preoccupation as the virus turns lives upside down. Finding reliable local statistics was difficult, so Dr Vukosi Marivate created a detailed database collating Covid-19 data and analysing it in dozens of useful ways....
by Dev Ops | Sep 4, 2020 | Civil Society 2020
Brown Lekekela is doing the work required to deal with gender-based violence where it’s most needed. He runs the Green Door shelter in his backyard for women and children in the Diepsloot informal settlement in Johannesburg. He set it up in 2013, after volunteering as...
by Dev Ops | Sep 4, 2020 | Civil Society 2020
Tsiestsi Morobi says he wants to see art become part of the school curriculum. He is a performer and drama teacher who sees art as a vehicle for social change, especially for those who were previously disadvantaged. Morobi studied a dramatic arts degree at the...
by Dev Ops | Sep 4, 2020 | Civil Society 2020
According to Murphy’s Law, anything that can go wrong, will go wrong and Jhono Bennett and his fellow students learned that lesson the hard way. In 2010, led by the Slovo Park Community Development Forum (SPCDF), Bennett, his colleagues and a group of Slovo Park...
