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Everyday hero Tracey Matube

Everyday Hero: Tracey Matube

With more than one million Aids orphans in South Africa today, Dr Tracey Matube decided she couldn't sit back and watch a parentless generation fend for themselves.

Social Innovator: Margie Owen-Smith
Social innovator Margie Owen-Smith

For many South African school children, the difficulty of getting to grips with maths formulae is compounded by having to do so through a second language. Enter Margie Owen–Smith and the Home Language Project.

Community Builder: Uzendt Peters
Community Builder Uzendt Peters

As a teacher in a state school, Uzendt Peters knew that if skills-dependent industries wanted skilled labour, and his pupils wanted jobs, that industry had to be brought into the education field.

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Movement for Good - it starts with you!
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Change for a better South Africa starts with small, everyday actions – and starts with each of us.

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Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela

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What is ubuntu?

The Zulu world "ubuntu" translates roughly as "humanity towards others". But it means much more than this. The spiritual foundation of African societies, ubuntu involves a belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all of humanity, a unifying worldview best captured by the Zulu maxim umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu - "a person is a person through other persons".

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