by Julia Mkhize | Jun 1, 2020 | News
For many years Nontethelelo Nkonzo struggled to live a proper life. A single mother of two girls and a boy, she was born in Umzimkhulu and lived with relatives from the age of six in Nositha village near Margate. She did not finish matric because of lack of funds....
by Shelagh McLoughlin | Apr 9, 2020 | News
Digital record-keeping for savings groups is inevitable but the road to implementation is not easy. This has been the case for both SaveAct — which has been running a pilot project to introduce an app for record-keeping to groups — and organisations working in other...
by Shelagh McLoughlin | Apr 9, 2020 | News
In March SaveAct met its nemesis. If the organisation’s main reason for existence is to unleash potential by bringing people together, then SARS-CoV-2, a nano-sized virus that leverages human contact to advance, is a deadly foe. Given the speed at which the pandemic...
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 Shelagh McLoughlin | Dec 5, 2019 | News
In a huge vote of confidence in SaveAct’s work, the South African government has, for the first time, partnered with us. SaveAct has entered into a three-year agreement with the Jobs Fund, whereby the agency will fund the mentorship and graduation of 10 000 savings...
by Shelagh McLoughlin | Dec 5, 2019 | News
“I had been in development work for 20 years, and when I saw this model I thought yes, this could work.” Like the simple savings model he was so impressed by, Hugh Allen is a no-frills kind of guy, direct and to the point. Decades ago he was an engineer from the UK,...
