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Ridding the nation of Hunger ... Poverty Eradication - Leaving no Citizen Behind
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Paparampa Breaks Silence
When I met Paparampa, he was on the streets and looking for nothing. He fled his home and family in the early 80’s and made the streets his home, joining scores of other street children who came to be known as bo-Bashi, a societal eyesore that government tried to stop through radio jingles, cartoons and news stories – but to no avail. The streets were an entirely alien world – one run by children and...
Born Again
In his song titled Moral Choices, South African poet, Mzwakhe Mbuli, muses on the choices people make. He chants: some choose bananas while some choose machine guns. Like everybody else Hugh Molale one day made a choice. He decided to become a criminal. He committed various crimes just to make a quick buck. Then one day the long arm of the law caught up with him. He was convicted and sent to jail. That was...
Need A Kidney? 'Try Me'
It is not every day that you come across someone who wants to donate one of their organs. Instead the stories we read are those of desperate individuals who are looking for a donor. That is why Nonofo Asekeng’s story is peculiar Twenty three-year old Asekeng is looking for a recipient of his kidney. Asekeng has even gone on national television and announced that he wants to donate one of his kidneys to someone who is...