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Rhiza Babuyile imparts marketable skills and entrepreneurship know-how to people living in some of Johannesburg's toughest environments. (Image: Rhiza Babuyile, via Facebook) "Our vision is...

The Kliptown Youth Program also provides children with sandwiches for breakfast and warm meals in the afternoons when they are done with school. (Images:...

An entrepreneurial complex built on the site of an old cement factory in the low income Cape township of Philippi has local growth at its heart.

Dine With Khayelitsha brings together people of different races and social classes to have frank conversations about social issues, over dinner.

After a successful run in Soweto in June, the next series of Siyabangena Seminars will be held in KwaMashu, KwaZulu-Natal in late September, with established South African business people sharing their skills and experience with young black entrepreneurs from the townships.

Dimphonyana Tsa Lapeng child-care centre in Olievenhoutbosch is taking care for the community further by encouraging people to collect recyclable waste and exchange it for food, toiletries and other day-to-day needs.

Jeffrey Mulaudzi's idea to offer tourists a glimpse of the "real South Africa" by taking them on a bicycle tour of Alexandra township has seen his business grow into one of Johannesburg's top attractions.

When they discovered they were hopelessly prepared for university after matriculating from a township school, Nonhlanhla Masina and Melusi Radebe decided to make sure other youngsters did not flounder. They set up the African School of Excellence, which is having great success in raising academic levels.

The 2014 Mandela Day Marathon, to be run from Pietermaritzburg's Imbali Township, where Nelson Mandela made his final speech before his imprisonment, to Howick, where he was arrested in 1962, takes place on 31 August, with over 10 000 athletes expected to be running.

"We can only fight poverty and unemployment when we work together with our people," Gauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane said at the launch of the Mohlakeng Enterprise Hub, which will support young people keen to start their own businesses.