by Shelagh McLoughlin | Jul 29, 2024 | News
Chloe Jacquin was not the stereotypical business school graduate. “I was interested in people and making a difference in their lives,” she says. At business school, she was interested in “ethics, finance, financial inclusion and anything related to that.” Her...
by Mihle Mapoma | Jun 25, 2024 | News
When Lindelwa Ndwalane joined a savings group in 2021 she was in dire straits. “It was really bad. I was in debt. Actually, I was in liquidation,” she says. “It was an ugly time because I had no sense of needing to save or budget or anything like that. I didn’t have a...
by Mihle Mapoma | May 22, 2024 | News
After losing her job in Johannesburg in 2019, Themi Mzindle came back home and challenged herself to start doing something new. She planted two rows of cabbages in her garden. She sold the 20 cabbages to neighbours and this encouraged her to grow other vegetables....
by Mihle Mapoma | Apr 22, 2024 | News
Prudence Mgasheni joined SaveAct in 2019. At the time, she already had a tuckshop, and she started another at the beginning of 2023, using her share-out from 2022 to build and stock it. Her journey as a businessperson has had its ups and downs and she has learned that...
by Mihle Mapoma | Mar 20, 2024 | News
Freedom to say NO Sibongile Mntungwa has lived the life of a rural woman and is now the director of an NPO that focusses on empowering girls and women. She’s also a savings group member and a firm believer in the benefits of the savings method. ...
by Mihle Mapoma | Mar 20, 2024 | News
Financial freedom In part one of this story about Sibongile Mntungwa, she described the constraints of growing up and being a women in rural KwaZulu-Natal, where abduction for marriage still happens. She too was abducted but managed to escape. Twenty five years...
