Sugar and spice, pastry and everything nice
Gloria Mashigo's journey as a chef is both unexpected and inspiring - with intriguing highs, agonizing lows and heart-warming in-betweens. But what drives this chef to create cakes of impeccable taste and quality? Walking into her premises and looking at the quality...
“I am an entrepreneurial ecosystem builder”
Guest blogger, Lesego Masethe, shares the story of the second-place winner in this year’s Ranyaka Building Business competition held in Mamelodi, Tshwane.While there is no clear definition for the term entrepreneurial ecosystem builder, what is common in all its...
A social entrepreneur’s quest for rural connectivity
Guest blogger, Lesego Masethe shares the story of the first place winner in the Ranyaka Building Business Social Enterprise competition for 2020.Given Maboela's Flex Internet Café in Stoffel Park, an informal settlement situated in Mamelodi, east of Pretoria, is...
Celebrating a champion
Every great cause needs a champion. Every vision needs visionaries who have the depth of insight to recognize potential. And every inspired idea needs those who have the courage to venture into unchartered territory. On the Proud of my Town journey, this champion is...
Meet our essay competition winners | Grade 11-12
Meet the winners of group C (grade 11 - 12) in this year's Brain Waves Development essay competition. Two winners share first place - congratulations! Topics include climate change and the effect of Covid-19 on learners' communities. FIRST PRIZE Lebogang Masebulele...
Meet our essay competition winners | Grade 8-10
Today, we introduce the winners of Group B in the 2020 Brain Waves Development essay competition - proudly sponsored by the Nedbank Proud of my Town programme. All three the winners shared their views on why food production and agriculture matter - especially in the...
The story of the little vegetable factories
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”, because with...
Meet our essay competition winners | Grade 5-7
We are excited to share the winning entries in this year's Brain Waves Development essay competition - proudly sponsored by the Nedbank Proud of my Town programme. The first prize winner in Group A is Thembelihe Mophuthing, a grade 6 learner from Bethany Combined...
Building Business | Reflections on 2020 and the way forward
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...
Building communities together
Ranyaka is excited to announce that BUCO Hardware, a division of The Building Company, is embarking on a journey with us as we tackle Fix Your Space and Land & Property projects that will help create places where people can prosper – in every sense of the word....
From profit to purpose
What if a business could do so much more than generate a revenue? What if, at the same time, a business could solve pressing social problems and make the world a better place?This was the challenge facing the twenty participants in a Social Entrepreneurship...
Sport changes lives
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 sponsoring...