Through her poetry people changed their perspective

Devonetia Amelia Michels is a young female that was born in Macassar but residing in Eerste River, Cape Town. She is a 19 years old and was adopted at the age of four by her aunt and uncle who she grew up with as her parents. Due to things that happened she had an identity crises, but she is grateful towards God for leading the way. As young as she is, with the world underneath her feet, she stands bold in whatever life throw at her. Writing and performing poetry has always been one of her greatest passions.

She started writing poetry in Grade 10, but it never evolved that it was a passion for her to write, she only noticed later that it was a talent and she can use her poetry to make something of herself. She says what inspired her is that it is relevant and relatable such as a certain situation or circumstances and than she feels to write about it. When she gets a introduction than you use it to write a poem. She does not write so that her words make sense, she freestyle. In school when she had to write an essay it turns into poetry and writes short stories and than turn them into poetry.

She could never really write long sentences but only poems. Last year she started to write a book but she did not complete it because she wrote short sentences but she wants to complete her book. She genuinely shares her life's turmoil, happiness and dreams through poetry as it gives healing to many unanswered questions. She learned where you come from does not say where you are going, but it is just a stepping stone to a brighter future. She believes through her poetry people changed their perspective that one can be successful from writing poetry. She uses criticism to improve her craft and art, she believes criticism makes you stronger as a person and an individual. She has a bilingual poetry book out right now and you can get your copy of this beautiful poetry book or would like to invite her to events to perform poetry, you can email michelsdevontia1@gmail.com

By: Ellouise Muller

Candida is found in the vaginal tracts of most women

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Dr. Natalia Novikova Gynaecologist & Endoscopic spoke to us about Sexually Transmitted Infections, Genital Warts, Menstrual Disorders and Contraception. She chose to become a Gynaecologist in a field of medicine because she always wanted to help women. She is passionate about health more importantly women's health and she can help women. 

STDs is the same thing as STI it is sexually transmitted disease or sexually transmitted infection. There are numbers of STD'S that are recognized and it starts with HIV, AIDS, hepatitis, chlamydia. STDs are transmitted through sex it could be skin to skin contact such as HPV, this virus causes wards so one does not have to have penetrative sex to acquire this virus and condoms does not protect against some HPV. Other
condoms can protect one against other mentioned STIs and STDs. If you wear a condom because one needs to be in contact with virginal fluid or semen to not receive the infection.  You will have symptoms that you have a STD or STI like itching, irregular discharge, unusual smelling, possibly pain. So you could have been exposed to these symptoms after having unprotected sex, and one has to have a check up through blood being drawn to see if one has the STIs or STDs. The risk involved is that one woman in 25 will not know they have these diseases and it should be treated to make sure it does not get worse. Most woman that are pregnant practice unprotected sex so they are at higher risk to get STDs or STIs. In terms of HIV you have to have a test very year as soon as you tested positive you will be looked off and will be treated. 


Candida is found in the vaginal tracts of most women. An overgrowth of it can lead to candidias of the vagina, also known as a yeast infection. Symptoms of vaginal candidias include redness, swelling, itching, painful intercourse and a thick, white discharge from the vagina. Itchiness can be related to very simple things such as yeast infection and yeast is very common. If you are stressed eat pasta, bread or anything that will raise your sugar levels. An inflammation in the vagina leaves a cottage cheese discharge sometimes green discharge or an itch and a lot of discomfort. You have to look after yourself, be fit and healthy and not to have a recurrent condition. An irregular period could be related to stress, pills, medicine, travelling. It could be hormonal disorders that lead to irregular bleeding, and could have an condition where a lining in the uterus can grow which cause a lot of pain when you have your periods. And leads to an examination and ultrasound to decide which treatment to take. Menstrual disorders can be caused by a lot of things, but can be managed such as sorting out lifestyle changes and stress levels or a contraceptive that can help as well. In terms of vaginal discharge it is normal, we all have discharge and if it is yellow and has a smell, go to the doctor or clinic to get treatment because you have an infection. 

By: Ellouise Muller

Help Elisabeth Sue fund her first album

Elisabeth Sue is an singer-songwriter, who is born and raised in Cape Town. Her passion for music began at a young age when she decided to join her school's youth choir. She learned on her own how to play varies instruments such as the guitar and started writing and composing her own music. Today music is a huge part of her life and who she is and she loves to collaborate with varies musicians.

Back in 2013 she won a battle of the bands competition with one of her own songs that she wrote, which was held at her High School. Elisabeth won her first opportunity to record at Platinum Studios. She auditioned for ''The Barnyard Theatre'' and declined her first Barnyard Offer in 2012. Elisabeth was scared to pursue her passion and enter the 09:00-17:00 working world, spending most of her hours rehearsing and writing music with various artists and spending most of her weekends performing at restaurants, etc. She would find a space where she could bring her music alive. She wants to share her passion and love for music she is asking you to consider sponsoring her with a personal or corporate to finalize the completion of her first album "If You Follow''. Elisabeth Sue is currently touring in Abu Dhabi and is busy promoting her music.

For more information: 

Email: elisabethsue.music@gmail.com or check her via Social Media elisabeth_sue_music

Seniors Programme at Ikamva Labantu

Lulama Sigansana is the current Programme Manager at Ikamva Labantu's Seniors Programme which supports vulnerable elderly throughout the Cape Metro pole. Lulama holds a Bachelor in Science Degree in Dietetics from the University of Western Cape. She started working in the communities in 1992 through the Department of Health in the area of nutrition and policy development and joined Ikamva Labantu in 2009 as the Health and Nutrition Manager.

Despite bearing the brunt of the struggle for freedom in South Africa, many older persons are still subject to widespread violation of their rights. Millions of senior citizens are living in abject poverty and experience isolation, abuse and neglect. This is exacerbated by weakened family ties, financial insecurity, limited mobility, and a lack of access to quality healthcare. Dire living conditions are the norm for many older persons who live in neighborhoods rife with crime and with limited access to basic services. Many are also unaware of their rights, and lack the resources or information to seek help when they need it. Despite this, many older persons still support large families on their pension of just R1,780 per month and are often the sole breadwinner in the household. Together with community leaders, they have a developed two community-based interventions that promote active and allow older persons to live with dignity. 

Five days a week, hundreds of senior citizens are provided transport to and from their clubs where they access a range of activities addressing health, nutrition and cognitive stimulation. Importantly, they are able to be among their peers in a social environment, away from the stress and isolation of their homes. Their senior members also have access to the emotional and physical support that heir field workers provide.

For more information contact: 

Website: https://ikamva.org.za/
Email: info@ikamva.co.za
Tel: 021 461 8338

By: Ellouise Muller

Africa Unite empowering youth in unity

Africa Unite was founded in 2001 in response to violence against asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in predominantly Black Township on the outskirts of Cape Town in the Western Cape. From the perspective of locals this included frustrations in relation to high levels of unemployment, a sense of abandonment and the absence of commitment by government towards local communities. In contrast, locals felt that  refugees from other African countries were living more successful lives. Although this was a misconception, it caused great resentment between local and migrant communities.  The outcome of this first session was the development of a platform for building channels of communication aimed at developing mutually supportive relationships between the two communities. This platform later became Africa Unite.


Since, Africa Unite (AU) has positioned itself as a human rights and youth empowering organisation that works with citizens, refugees and migrants to prevent conflicts, enhance social cohesion and promote social -economic development. Initially AU became an autonomous non-profit organisation in 2004 guided by the slogan 'Building Human Rights Communities'. In this regard, AU's programmatic focus lies in building human rights knowledge, skills, facilitating reciprocal learning exchanges with community-based and migrant-led structures.

Furthermore, create a platform for intercultural exchanges and dialogue between local, refugee and migrants communities in South Africa. In line with its updated strategic plan, AU put in place the following programmes:  Human Rights for Social Cohesion Programme; A capacity development programme for peer educators focusing on human rights, democratic governance and conflict prevention to bring transformation as a vehicle towards achieving social cohesion and the construction of human rights communities. Africa Unite School Club is a program designed to work with learners in underprivileged schools to create young leaders, who can think critically about their environment and make positive change providing holistic psycho-social support and after school and after- school care to children from different backgrounds infected or affected by HIV/AIDS including community, domestic, sexual and gender-based violence.

By: Ellouise Muller

A photographer from Macassar

Llowellyn Gelandt is a self-taught photographer from Macasssar. He has no formal taring or qualification in photography however he is currently studying to become a educator. His passion for photography started when he was 10 years-old, way back in 2005. He started taking pictures on a camera and the rest is history. He experiments with different photo editing software such as Adobe, Photoshop and started editing his families pictures. Due to school and his studies he went quite, however he always take pictures of landscapes, nature and things he find interesting on with his phone. 

Over a year ago he started taking pictures as a hobby and now he is a known photographer in his area Macassar. Llowellyn takes pictures of landscape and portraits. He likes capturing timeless moments and prefer taking pictures of someone when they are not posing, as this makes their emotion more raw and real. He still learn and acquire skills through Youtube and getting tips from established photographers that inspires him. Llowellyn believes anyone can be a photographer and one does not need to study photography or anything they are passionate about and love. They should just do what they love even if they did not study it and believe a career in photography is profitable and one can make money with the right support systems. He does not believe photography will die out, with smartphones becoming more advanced and nowadays anyone can take pictures from their phones, it will not have the same quality as a real professional camera.

For more information contact via facebook: Llowellyn Gelandt

By: Ellouise Muller

Strategies in the fight against HIV and AIDS

The City of Cape Town Health Department has partnered with the NPO ANOVA a Health Institute since June 2019 to focus their Strategies in the fight against HIV and AIDS. If hey remain with their current strategies they plan to not only change the trajectory of HIV but the disease from keeping growing at an alarming rate, the disease will outrun the response. In 2017 the ANOVA Institute currently had 36.9 million people living with HIV globally, in South Africa they have 7.7 million people living with HIV. With an accelerated approach called APACE (accelerated program achievement) to Control of the epidemic which is the HIV epidemic, they have change their approach to HIV, by actively looking for those living with HIV, testing sites within the communities, with additional testers in the health facilities, additional trained professional nurses to commence ART for patients who requires it, various methods of collections of chronic medicine through quick pick up clubs, outside of clinic clubs in the community, welcoming back clients who left their treatment some time ago, restarting their ART, starting many people on ART.

ANOVA need to add 2 million people onto ART in South Africa to effectively stop the growth of this HIV virus amongst their population, with the City of Cape Town the ANOVA need to place 250 000 amongst their people. If everyone can get tested for HIV and get place on ART every person who requires ART, that means they will become vitally suppressed and not spread the disease any further.

Then ANOVA only need to keep all of their ART patients on treatment, by making it as easy as possible for them to get their treatment and remain on treatment, with as little impact on their working day and lives, that is so they can make it easy for people to pick up their other chronic medicines and ART from the same clinic at the same time,as that would make their lives much easier.

This is called Operationa Phathuma by the National Department of Health. ANOVA currently supported the City conducting 450 761 HIV tests of which 12 198 is HIV+ and started 16196 people on ART, however to make the necessary impact they need to start at least 4000 people onto ART per month.

For more information contact: www. anovahealth.co.za / 021 761 8751 / info@anovahealth.co.za

Empowering the community and provides the hope required to catalyze positive change

The Just Grace is an non-profit organisation from Langa, that focus on the empowering the community and provides the hope required to catalyze positive change and unleash the hidden potential in the township in Langa.

Their youth development programme believes that sustainable and meaningful change comes from a long-term commitment to geographical impact. The Just Grace organisation is passionate about creating and supporting community based projects that cumulatively will lead to the social uplifting of Langa. They run a youth development programme that holistically supports learners throughout high school and into further education, training or employment. The Just Grace incorporate academic support, arts and culture and fun, career guidance, computer training as some children might not have the skills to use one, development, entrepreneurship, leadership, literacy, life skills and post school preparation. Every year the learners achieve results that far exceed the local, provincial and national averages.

The Just Grace organisation works closely alongside with the different high schools in the Langa township to strengthen and equip the students. This includes practical support for the school such as training, financial and legal advice as well as learners support such as home visits, career guidance as some student might not know what they want to pursue after they matriculate.

For further information www.justgrace.co.za or 0730351899

Nal'ibali will give new bikes to 50 youngsters who open a library card.

The Nal'ibali organisation has teamed up with local libraries nation wide to provoke all grown-ups to get the children in their lives a free library participation card. As South Africa does not have a culture of perusing and libraries remain to a great extent underutilized, so children are not used to obtaining books to bring home to peruse for happiness. In a mission to conquer absence of education in South Africa and to make separation to a lesser extent a boundary to perusing, Nal'ibali will give new bikes to 50 fortunate youngsters who have enrolled for a library participation card.

At the present time in South Africa, just one in each five children in Grade 4 can peruse for importance. This implies most children battle to peruse effortlessly and, accordingly, endure scholastically with low evaluations. Likewise, most homes in South Africa have not many books, to a great extent since books are unreasonably costly for the normal family to purchase. Barbara Meyer came to speak to us on how the drive will work and how cards will be distributed.

For further information visit the nal'ibali website at www.nalibali.org/library   

By: Ellouise Muller 

One should prepare children for the world they will face as adults

The Parent-Infant Intervention Home Visiting Programme of the Parent Centre in Cape Town is an evidence informed initiative delivered by paraprofessionals and specifically aims to reduce the risk of child neglect and maltreatment. The parent Centre was established in 1983 and provides education and training workshops, home-visiting programmes, community talks, support groups as well as parental counselling. While the Centre is based in the Western Cape, they are very keen to respond to requests for training from other areas.

The Parent Centre has an approach to parents and parenting. They believe that one should prepare children for the world they will face as adults is an awesome and challenging task. Equipping children with a positive self-esteem that will enable them to act wisely and assertively in their lives is the most important responsibility they carry. However they believe parenting is not instinctive. Attitudes, information and skills need to be learned and many parents lack confidence or feel ill equipped for task of providing the emotional containment, information and the skills their children need realise their creative potential.

The vision of the Parent Centre strives to contribute to a society in which every parent\caregiver is able to raise resilient and well-balance children in ways which they can develop their full potential, protected from victimization and abuse in communities free from violence. The Parent Centre is a non-profit organization working mainly in the Western Cape. Through primary prevention, they aim to facilitate the safety and healthy emotional development of the child from birth to early childhood; promote the well-being and self-esteem of the parent/caregiver; prevent child abuse, victimization and neglect; contribute to the prevention of teen pregnancy, substance abuse and HIV and AIDS; enhance the child's capacity to be a resilient, caring, competent and creative member of society; and lastly encourage the establishment of a loving, nurturing environment that strengthens the family and society. The programmes that the Parent Centre includes; individual counselling progamme, specialised counselling for parents and children aged zero to three, parenting skills training programme, teenage parenting programme; etc.

For more information contact: 

Website:  https://theparentcentre.org.za/
Tel: 021 762 0116

Track Five the jazzy acapella group

Engela Fullard is the director of the group called Track Five. She took music classes at the age of 7-years-old, music was a subject for her up to matric and she also attended private flute lessons from 16. Engela has a BA music grade, and got her teaching license at the University of SA. She was a secretary at a large company for 10 years and kept music going with ensemble work. Her husband Gavin is the mastermind behind the vocal group, Track Five. He has a passion for arranging and for jazz vocal groups in particular. He started working with vocal groups during the sixties and in the 1975 eventually formed a vocal group called, Tangerine. They worked for about 18 years in radio, television and cabaret work.

Track Five was formed in 1995. They perform acapella with jazz trio and flute as well as with sax quartet. The top venues where Track Five has performed at Cape Town International Convention Centre, Drostdy Theatre; Stellenbosch, Grahamstown Festival, Grand Roche Hotel, Grand West, Groote Schuur Presidential Home, Kirstenbosch Amphitheatre, Oude Libertas Ampitheatre, Paul Cluver, Spier, ''The World- luxury cruise liner, Theatre on the Bay, University of Stellenbosch- Endler Hall. They will be performing at the Hazendal Jazz Club on Friday evening, 31 January 2020, Hazendal Wine Estate is against the slopes of Bottelary Hills in Stellenbosch.

For further information about Track Five or bookings contact engelafullard@gmail.com or www.trackfivevocal.co.za or info@trackfivegroup.co.za or 082 930 6762

By: Ellouise Muller

Self taught visual artist from the settlement Nyanga

Olwethu Patuleni is a self taught visual artist from the settlement Nyanga. In 2017 he started doing foundation in Graphic Design at CPUT. He specialise in pencil drawing and customising denim jackets, trousers, t-shirt and sneakers. He also uses other material like oil and chock pastels.

His art is based on the images he receive from his clients. Olwethu sometimes draw pictures that he sees when he browse through the internet or social media, when a certain picture provokes inspiration within him. He draws it and use social media as a platform to display his work. When he was younger his teacher used to comment on his art and that basically inspired him.


Olwethu Patuleni comes from a unprivileged background where he says is no hope, that most of the young people are drug addicts, drink and commit robbery in order to survive and that made a lot of things slow for his ability to do the artwork that he does. He spent a lot of time doing what he love to keep himself busy and to keep himself out of pessimistic vibe of the streets. He's seen as a young hero in his community and many people young and old look up to him, which also drives his passion. He started drawing at a young age, for him it was a hobby at first but soon turned into a career. He says he receives a lot of support from his family, friends and most people surrounding his area.

He uses his platform to tell masses know that withholding their talent is not a opinion and aspire a lot of young people who have a gift to use it to their benefit.

For further information visit his facebook page Olwethu Patuleni Art''or instagram ''thehandsomeolwethu''.

By: Ellouise Muller

Zee fashion is taking the jewelry world by storm.

Zerena Ebrahim also known as Zee is the founder and owner of Zees fashion.

After completing her BCom degree in Business Management, Zee decided to start her own business called Zees Fashion in 2014 and market a curated range of fashion accessories. Zerena's love for design, fashion and jewelry led her to complete a course in jewelry making years ago. While completing her course, Zee dreamed of taking her passion further and owning her own fashion jewelry business.

What started out as just a hobby for Zerena, grew into Zees Fashion, the successful e-commerce platform that it is today. Zees fashion offers a range of fashion accessories that are in line with world wide trends and are affordable. Items are carefully selected and imported to guarantee that only the hottest fashion items are stocked and keeping to the values where Zees Fashion began, some of the items stocked are still handmade.

For further information go to the website zeesfashion.com or visit her instagram site zeesfashion.

By: Ellouise Muller

Biggest yearly gathering concentrated on TB

The Lung Conference is the biggest yearly gathering concentrated on TB issues in low-and centre pay countries. Every year stakeholders from over 125 countries assembles for this four-day gathering, which tries to come up with solutions on how to combat TB. 

Three promising new drugs used to safe treat tuberculosis (DR-TB) that offer individuals a superior possibility of endurance with minimal symptoms.

The three new DR-TB drugs are called – bedaquiline, delamanid and pretomanid offering individuals a superior possibility at endurance with far less symptoms than more seasoned lethal injectable medications that are as yet being utilized in many countries. With these three conceivably game changing medications evaluated distant, it obstructs their scale-up by countries. Just 20% of individuals with DR-TB who need these more up to date medications have had the option to get them. Right now, the cost of DR-TB regimens ranges from more than R15 000 to R170 000, contingent upon the treatment length and blend of medications required. 

The DR-TB understanding extremist Goodman Makanda from Khayelitsha. He was diagnosed with TB/MDR TB in 2013, when his life changed completely. Today he is TB free an ex-MDR survivor that is cured, however he is living with one lung because of TB. Goodman was restored of MDR-TB and recently attended the Lung Conference in India. He did know much about TB but as of being diagnosed he equip himself with information on the disease. He believes people must be educated on TB. And believes the stigma around TB should change as this is not something you seek for, this disease do not discriminate against anyone. 

For more information makandagoodman@gmail.com or TBproof.co.za or phone 0730836068

By: Ellouise Muller

Tygerberg Hospital Children's Trust World Prematurity Day Fun Walk

On the awake of the World Premature Day, the Tygerberg Hospital Children's Trust will have the World Preemie Day Fun Walk talking place On the sixteenth November at 07:00am for 08:00am. This is the second year the occasion will be held, after Tygerberg Hospital effectively facilitated their debut World Preemie Day 5km Fun Walk on the emergency clinic grounds a year ago.

This year the Tygerberg Hospital Children's Trust is developing accomplishment to offer walkers an entire day of fun. This fun walk plans to make mindfulness in the interest of 15 million untimely infants, this is as per the World Health Organization, that are conceived yearly on the planet. The Tygerberg Hospital will paint the town purple (as purple speaks to untimely infants) in solidarity of a reason that requirements open help. The medical clinic premises will be changed into a hive of celebrations for the entire family to appreciate.

Premature birth is a genuine overall medical issue. The child endures long lasting medical problems like cerebral paralysis, vision and hearing misfortune and scholarly incapacities. A child's well being is most powerless during the initial 1 000 days of its life. These initial 1 000 days in a child's improvement, beginning from origination, traveling through pregnancy, birth and up to the initial of 2 years of life, are significant for verifying a youngster's splendid future. The initial 1 000 days are imperative on the grounds that the advancement of their minds are occurring, fuel the youngster's physical development, developing a solid insusceptible framework, improving their school preparation and instructive accomplishment, and diminishes their danger of improvement interminable ailments, for example, diabetes and heart problems further down the road.

Tygerberg Hospital has the second biggest child unit in South Africa and treats the biggest number of infants weighing under 1500 grams. Tygerberg Hospital is viewed as the principal infant unit in Africa. The Tygerberg Hospital's Trust, which supports roughly 44 000 yearly chils patients of Tygerberg Hospital is observing World Prematurity Day by working together with the clinic, its medical caretakers, staff and specialists on this occasion.

Tickets can be reserved and paid fro online at www.howler.co.za or at Howler installment outlet. The R150 extra charge incorporate a purple T-shirt (as purple speaks to untimely infants) and a goodie sack for the initial 500 participants. On the other hand, participants can pay a R50 extra charge. For more subtleties on the trust or the occasion visit tygerbergchildren.org.za or tygerbergchildrenstrust.org.za

By: Ellouise Muller

So when should a debt advisor be brought in

National debt advisors is a registered debt counselling firm in South Africa. As the festive season is approaching a lot of people will spend a lot and end up in huge debts that might lead in one loosing property or getting blacklisted, January is also coming fees must be paid, rent and all other bills needs to be settled and you might find yourself borrowing more than your income and that will strain you or even lead to depression.

Hence, we had a conversation with, Rene Moonsamy from The National Debt council discussing all legal procedures that should be taken when one is owing a company, what can be done to prevent property loss and being blacklisted.

Rene spoke about a debt review which is a debt release measure provided in terms of the national providers act. It helps with consumers that struggle to pay their debt, a debt councilor comes in to negotiate to reduce your interest rate or installments and your payments to an amount that is affordable to you.

So when should a debt advisor be brought in: 

- When you use your credit card to purchase groceries or pay other debt during the month.
- Skipping payments on your accounts.
- If your avoiding phone calls from credit providers.

It will help you to bring in a debt councilor to avoid you from being harassed. 

Moonsamy also said debt collectors do not have a right to harass debtors and advised people to stay out of huge debts this festive season.

By: Thomas Cedrick

Oracle Green

We had a telephonic interview with Bulelani Njobe all the way from Langa. Bulelani who is the founder of Oracle Green which is a cleaning service.

While in High School Bulelani Njobe found himself exposed to gangs and drugs and as a result wasted three years of his life. But this is what motivated him to start his own business of cleaning dustbins and assisting the elderly create vegetable gardens for families living with HIV/AIDS in Langa.

When he started Oracle Green it was tough because only 12 households accepted his over to make use of his service to clean their bins, while his friends mocked his work, but that did not discourage him instead it motivated him more. 

The business has since grown to service 51 customers and with additional cleaning services Bulelani has also managed to permanently employ six young people from his community to keep up with the requests. Later they introduced roof cleaning, full house painting and upholstery cleaning.

Bulelani also urged young people to stop drugs and concentrate more on their life.
All he wants today is to empower others and not to follow the same path he did and to be the living testimony that change is possible.

Going back to school and registering at the South African Institute for Entrepreneurship and coming second place in the South African Teen Entrepreneur competition has also helped Bulelani continue his entrepreneurship journey despite some of the struggles.

Bulelani says he encourages young people to start their own businesses where they see the need and believe in it because that is what will set them apart from other businesses and ensure they succeed.

He say's: "I can say i'm a living testimony and that it's not how you start, but how you finish that truly matters." 

By: Lindokuhle Nkanyuza

Glory Pads

On Sakhisizwe we had Chantelle Goliath who imports a certain type of sanitary pads called Glory pads all the way from Democratic Republic of Congo. Chantelle who is also a cancer survivor is the founder of Milli Distributors.

The Glory Pad, is an organic soft cotton and natural bamboo sanitary pad with a charcoal strip that relieves toxins of the body as well as menstruation cramps.

Chantelle who was once homeless five years ago and was abused at a young age has a passion of empowering women from all walks of life. The whole idea of Glory pads came up in 2017 when Chantelle met with Hyasintha a Tanzanian telecom engineer at the Africa Women Innovation & Entrepreneurship Forum Conference.

For more information contact: Milli Distributors

By: Thomas Cedrick and Lindokuhle Nkanyuza

She is more than just an actress and pretty face

She is more than just an actress...

Many people believe that if you live in the Cape flats, you will most likely become negatively influenced by the environment, we brought the TV actress Ann Juries-May to studio to talk about how she was able to deal with the negativity of the Cape flats and became a successful actress. 

Ann Juries-May who was born in Eerste River, is now playing Claudia Cupido from the TV series Arendsvlei, the character Claudia Cupido is a grade 11 student who attends Arendsvlei High School. Ann started TV acting after she acquired her degree in theater and performance at the University of Cape Town in 2012 .   

Being born in an area which was negatively stigmatized , growing up Ann dealt with the issues, but never took them to heart. However with the recent violence and crime on the increase, Ann has chosen to use her platform to help the people who she is able to help. She has started an NGO called Showup.shine which focuses on giving dresses to matric girls for their matric ball's, Ann believes that by making these girls happy they will gain a more confident mindset which she believes is the type of mindset more people need.

Ann is more than just Claudia Cupido from Arendsvlei, using her platform to address issues like gender-based violence as well as helping girls feel better about themselves. Ann's actions show that she is more than just an actress.

            

For more information,

Facebook: Ann Juries-May

Instagram: Ann Juries-May

Twitter: Juries-May