In December last year, the PAMA Global Mental Maths Championship took place in Seoul. 26 students from South Africa took part with some noteworthy results.
Rhino Tears wines has raised R1 million since the launch of a drive in 2014 to raise funds to be used in the war against rhino poaching in South Africa.
The 8th annual Hult Prize will see Rhodes University students advance to the regional finals, having taken Bill Clinton’s challenge of ‘Reawakening Human Potential’.
Rynaard de Goede’s video has gone viral as he aims to cultivate peace through love.
Rhodes University was selected to host a local edition of the Hult Prize as students answer Bill Clinton’s Social Entrepreneurship Challenge and go head-to-head for $1,000,000 in New York.
Pretty Yende’s rise to fame has been called a ‘modern day fairytale.’ From the small town of Piet Retief, Pretty is now most comfortable on the top opera stages in the world.
Giant has become the first four-legged skydiving anti-poaching teammate.
When a lady’s phone was snatched from her hands, Eustance Maluleke happened to be at the right place at the right time and acted instantly to help a stranger in need.
Sihle Maseko watched the drummer at his church week after week, before he decided to give drumming a go himself, only thing is, he didn’t have a drum kit.
Voted the best male dancer in the UK, Hurst was a member of London’s oldest ballet company, Rambert Ballet. When the company moved to its new premises in Chiswick, West London, Hurst bought the rehearsal room floor. Everybody thought he was mad.
Khan Yunis Zoo in Gaza housed a Bengal tiger which is now making its way to South Africa to live.
Tannie Evita Bezuidenhout’s also been honoured with gold; granted, not like Caster or Wayde, but gold nonetheless.
Donna Oakes was waiting for a train when she heard the most beautiful singing coming from a busker nearby.
Former investment banker, Marc Dinkelmann realises now that he needed something major to get him out of his structured and predictable life. A brain tumour will do that.
Over the last year, Lead SA has asked the public to nominate ordinary South Africans doing uplifting work in their communities
Josh decided to help the homeless by giving them free haircuts, and the changes are phenomenal.
The torrential rain in Durban this past week almost claimed its fifth victim.
Running parallel with all the bad news that is making headlines, stories of good news are coming to the fore, too.
‘I Have a Name’ has showcased the stories of a handful of people and some of those people’s lives have been changed forever.
A group of 10 courageous women will travel 10 000kms through 10 countries while they visit elephant conservation efforts on the continent in a quest to raise funds and awareness.
Three friends left on 16 June from Pretoria to run to Cape Town in order to raise funds for Home of Hope – an organisation that takes care of children in need.
Writer and filmmaker, Lidudumalingani has won the 2016 Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story entitled Memories We Lost.
If you think R40 doesn’t stretch very far, you’d be right. But not if you’re Lufefe ‘Spinach King’ Nomjana.
A recent Facebook initiative launched in Gauteng, aims to give names to the faces of people we see on our streets every day, and in doing so, hopes to help uplift and empower the forgotten members of society.