3 November 2025 | Kanyamazane, Mbombela, Proud of my Town, Strong Schools
Reimagining the power of youth“It feels good to be a champion. When we’re together, we feel safe and grow stronger, learning how to care for ourselves, our environment, each other, and the places we call home.” – Owami, 2025. (Changemaker) The word changemaker has...
24 November 2023 | Boitekong, Cloetesville, Community Safety, Dwarsrivier Valley, Gqeberha, Jamestown, Kanyamazane, Kayamandi, Khayelitsha, Klapmuts, KwaMashu, Kylemore, Lantana, Magaliesburg, Mamelodi, Mbekweni, Mbombela, Nodes, Orlando, Paarl, Polokwane, Proud of my Town, Rustenburg, Stellenbosch, Tshwane, Umlazi, Zwide
A small group of unarmed women patrol the streets of a neighbourhood where the sound of gunshots rings out at night. A team gathers in the make-shift corrugated iron structure that is home to the ‘boardroom’ where they plan both safety and sports activities for their...
3 May 2021 | Building Business, Collaboration, Community Safety, Early Childhood Development, Fix Your Space, Gqeberha, Land & Property, Mamelodi, Mbombela, Paarl, People Development, Polokwane, Proud of my Town, Rustenburg, Sport, Art & Culture, Stellenbosch, Strong Schools, Tell Your Story, Umlazi
Introducing the Proud of our Towns Facebook Groups “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress and working together is success.”The world of social media did not yet exist when Henry Ford spoke these wise words. But many decades later,...
3 December 2020 | Boitekong, Fix Your Space, Kanyamazane, Land & Property, Mamelodi, Proud of my Town
An old tyre, a few discarded plastic shopping bags, a two-liter plastic cooldrink bottle and enough soil to fill the tyre to create a little vegetable garden – this is what you need to create what Steven Barnard from NuNet calls the “Garden of Life”,...
16 November 2020 | Boitekong, Building Business, Kanyamazane, Mamelodi, Paarl, Proud of my Town, Stellenbosch
The year 2020 upended the global economy, bringing disruption and, in many cases, devastation at mass scale. Small, medium- and micro enterprises (SMMEs) as well as survivalist businesses have been especially hard hit. During the course of this year, the Nedbank Proud...
30 September 2020 | Kanyamazane, Proud of my Town, Sport, Art & Culture
Forty players from the Kanyamazane Hockey Club in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga Province are the proud owners of brand-new uniforms following a sponsorship by the Proud of my Town programme. Each of the four coaches also received tracksuits and PoMT will also be...
