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Deshun Deysel defies the classic stereotype of mountaineers as being butch and bearded. The first black woman to climb Mount Everest, Deysel sees climbing mountains as a metaphor for life - and one with particular relevance for South Africa.

A recently launched website "hotline" is seeing the South African government lead the rest of Africa in the fight against child pornography.

When Penelope Thloloe took her final bow as a professional ballet dancer, she decided it was time to create opportunities for children in Alexandra, the township where she still lives, to follow their own dreams through dance.

South Africa’s HIV infection rate is levelling off, according to the latest Joint UN Programme on HIV and Aids report, released in late July 2008.

David Kramer is not your average museum curator. Thanks to his vision, what used to be the Electric Warehouse in Newtown, Johannesburg has been transformed into the revolutionary Sci-Bono Discovery Centre - the largest of its kind in Africa.

An art auction in May 2008 saw a new record price set for a painting by Russian-born Vladimir Tretchikoff, who lived in South Africa for most of his life.

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At just 36 years of age, the Eastern Cape's inimitable Phindi Kema is the first and only black person to breed thoroughbred horses commercially in South Africa. To top it off, she also grows lucerne and runs a citrus farm, a small dairy and a popular adventure camp.

There was not too much to shout about for Bafana Bafana, South Africa's national soccer team, in 2003, but the women's side, affectionately called Banyana Banyana, can look back on a job well done. So too can the Tsetse Flies - the national under-12 team.

A government initiative called Technology for Women in Business is helping South Africa's female entrepreneurs get access to the applied science and technology they need to catapult their businesses into the big league.