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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

Find out more about one of the great moral and political leaders of our time.

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".