by Esther Katts | Mar 3, 2021 | News
The small town of Nababeep was already on the ropes when Covid hit and the impact was brutal, although not for everyone. I didn’t grow up with night-time fables read by my parents. I didn’t grow up with “héply eva after”. My mom was far too busy surviving, raising...
by Esther Katts | Jun 5, 2020 | News
‘There is a sureness in the skies remaining faithful while everything around me slips through my hands,’ writes the author about coping in the time of the coronavirus. In her small town in Northern Cape the response to pull together has been affirming. I’ve been...
by Esther Katts | Feb 17, 2020 | News
Namaqualand. A place of stark, arid landscapes, magnificent spring flowers, livestock farming and mining. That’s the narrative most people know about Namaqualand, but a black woman called Rosina Secondt is creating a new one for herself. She’s the owner of 250 olive...
by Esther Katts | Jun 4, 2019 | News
There are roads that lead to rural communities living far off the grid. Roads that are rarely travelled. The road to Witbank is like that. I travel it in the course of my work as a SaveAct field officer, and it’s too uncomfortable. The landscape is vast, flat, barren...
by Esther Katts | Jan 22, 2019 | News
Lisa Mathys single-handedly built a successful clothing manufacturing business, but like all entrepreneurs, she is vulnerable to cash-flow problems. She needs credit to see her through the bad times and capital to keep expanding her enterprise, which is why she’s now...
