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Life of today is relatively challenging, has its own fair share of ups and downs and also challenges that may bring a sudden end to one·s life. On average daily people lose their lives to roads accidents, fatal attacks, and fatal illnesses that sometimes emerge suddenly. Of all the mentioned unfortunate events, the gender most affected is men.

In this current tough times that we find ourselves living in, we all have grown fond to the idea of no longer awaiting formal employment in order to make a living, but come up with alternative entrepreneur ventures.

We are currently under quite a few pandemics as a country, Covid-19, GBV and Unemployment. Latest stats released show that the pandemic against unemployment won·t be won or overthrown anytime soon. Therefore self-employment has proved to be a current way to go.

Most people think of tuberculosis, often called TB, as a serious disease that affects the lungs. That's true, but it can also affect other parts of the body, including your brain and spine. It's not a problem for most people with healthy immune systems: One can have TB germs in the body and not get sick or spread the disease to others.

Today·s life has become to be accepted by many as life with various illnesses and conditions and so on, simply because many now are living with various illnesses or conditions invincible to the naked eyes of the next person, but having a serious strain or taking their tall on the person.

This month of October has been set aside to commemorate amongst others, an invisible terrorizing condition Breast cancer. This type of cancer occurs mostly in women and rarely in men. Symptoms of breast cancer include a lump in the breast, bloody discharge from the nipple and changes in the shape or texture of the nipple or breast.

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After more than almost three decades, South Africa and many other countries throughout the continent and the world at large have grown to finally accept HIV as just an ordinary lifestyle illness that requires one to just take good care of themselves, exercise regularly, eat healthy and take their medication. The many public awareness campaigns that had been made throughout all media platforms including social media as well have helped greatly in encouraging others to make peace with their statuses pursue a happy peaceful life and also disclose their statuses to their loved ones as well. Disclosing of one’s HIV status is always a personal choice that is taken when one is ready and is quite capable of handling all that will be following thereafter. But the harder one comes always when an adult has to disclose to the child why they have been feeding him/her medication every day from their earliest onset childhood, disclosing to a child that he/she is hiv positive, what hiv is and what it means for them to be hiv positive.

Life itself has many stumbling blocks that constantly knocks one over and over again to the ground. But regardless of how many times or hard one may fall, the greatest victory comes in how many times we stand up and proceed with the journey of life, and also turning the sour situation into the best and advantageous as it can ever be.  One of the popular stumbling blocks that has been widely troublesome to the society as a whole is the HIV & AIDS pandemic.  HIV has been and it still does continue to be a problematic underlying silent pandemic amongst our communities. There is still a lot that encompasses the virus itself, stigma and underlying illnesses caused or emerging as a result of the virus.  But great heroinesses that have emerged more stronger and more courageous from this pandemic have come to turn the tables around, and also change the game completely. Instead of being oppressed about being born and living with a lifetime virus, 27 years old Miss Kedibone Sharon Machethe decided to turn the tables around after having learned that she had been born with HIV when she was just 20 years old. The Limpopo born Simply Shazzy as she is popularly known, went on to learn much as she could about HIV and came to educate the masses about it on various social media platforms. 

The world we live in requires one if not all of us to constantly have a secure and reliable support system, be it either organizations or individuals we rely on for unconditional support. For business start-ups, the same applies. All business start-ups rely on various kinds and types of support, be it their clientele, their word-of-mouth marketers or even their loyal suppliers and distributors. Without such kind of assistance it can be extremely hard for beginners in the business world, and eventually lead to their unforeseen downfalls. Having seen the importance of solid support for business beginners, a couple decided to start a media and marketing company to offer very affordable services to them to ensure that they get to build their brands at affordable prices, and even grow with them. Mrs Sarah Motshwane Sebetola and her late husband started their business Tshepiso Branding Solutions on the premise of living their purpose of helping uplift others by offering affordable branding and printing services.

The versatile world that we live in has opened up so many opportunities and created decent ways for others to make a living legitly so. Because of the continuous evolving world into one global community, consumers all over the world are no longer subjected to only that which is offered by retailers or dealers, but have the privilege to select that which they want and think its best suited for them and their needs. The same status quo has been applicable for a longer while in the cleaning detergents tradings, having had customers limited to only certain brands they find in the retailers. Well lately all that has changed with the advent emergence of local made cleaning products by local people. This then affords consumers opportunities to engage with detergents manufactures explaining their needs and wants, and getting products directly suited for fixing their problems. After the Covid’s heightened need for thorough hygiene, one long passionate entrepreneur by heart Mrs Basetsana Taku saw the opportunity brace the business market with one of her long ideal concepts of cleaning detergents. The Rusternburg born mother of two saw the best opportunity to release her detergents products into the market at a time when proper hygiene was overly emphasized, and she surprised the markets with Sparkling Diamond, a full range of cleaning products for households and companies. 

Psoriasis is a common skin condition that changes the life cycle of skin cells. Psoriasis causes cells to build up rapidly on the surface of the skin. The extra skin cells form thick, silvery scales and itchy, dry, red patches that are sometimes painful. Psoriasis is a persistent, long-lasting (chronic) disease. There may be times when your psoriasis symptoms get better alternating with times your psoriasis worsens. Psoriasis signs and symptoms can vary from person to person but may include one or more of the following: Red patches of skin covered with silvery scales, Small scaling spots (commonly seen in children), Dry, cracked skin that may bleed, Itching, burning or soreness, Thickened, pitted or ridged nails, Swollen and stiff joints. The primary goal of treatment is to stop the skin cells from growing so quickly. While there isn't a cure, psoriasis treatments may offer significant relief. Lifestyle measures, such as using a non-prescription cortisone cream and exposing your skin to small amounts of natural sunlight, also may improve your psoriasis symptoms.

The versatile world that we live in has opened up so many opportunities and created decent ways for others to make a living legitly so. Because of the continuous evolving world into one global community, consumers all over the world are no longer subjected to only that which is offered by retailers or dealers, but have the privilege to select that which they want and specifically ask for custom making of their product in their preferred designs and decorations. Just as the world had been slowly but surely developing and adapting to the new norm of affording the consumers a wide variety of options, one wise born-entrepreneur saw a lifetime opportunity and did not waste time seizing it, venturing into interior designing, customizing furniture to suit a consumer’s lifestyle and expectations for both residential and corporate areas as well. 43 years old Kgomotso Malope of Johannesburg formally kick-started her business Motso-Designed a little more than five years ago, the company specializes in Interior designs, branding and wallpaper printings as well. 

HIV has been and it still does continue to be problematic underlying silent pandemic amongst our communities. There is still a lot that encompasses the virus itself, stigma and underlying illnesses caused or emerging as a result of the virus. All this challenges associated with the pandemic virus can be swiftly defeated provided that one is open and courageous enough to go out and live their life to the fullest, fighting the virus and all its associated challenged with all they have got. Eventually one may triumph over the pandemic and emerge a hero even in front of the eyes of those who were stigmatizing her. Of all the heroes who triumphed over the HIV pandemic, one of those who needs to be acknowledged is 49 years old Miss Meisie Motaung. The courageous woman of worth has been living with the virus for the past 17 years. Having been infected in her early 30’s, the strong and independent lady from Mabopane township chose not to let the virus define or dictate to how she should leave her life, instead she led the journey developing a new normal lifestyle of an HIV+ person.

One of the few major life lessons we have thus learned from life ever since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic is that one may plan to do this and that, but the higher forces above us will have a deciding plan or move of action. Many might have planned that after so many years as formal employees, they would have saved enough to do certain projects and so on, or enough to start their small businesses, or to even retire. But covid-19 and its ripple effects did have the ultimate deciding factor, derailing many from their both short and long term plans, and also sending many into stricter destitute corners of unemployment and no incomes non so ever. This then becomes a time when one has to think on their feet steadily so, and derive opportunities from anything at all in one’s surroundings. For great minds like that of Lufuno Rasoeose, such kind of sudden life changing situations do not mean one’s hopes for better life are shuttered, but rather they think on their feet and come up with new better ideas of making a living. The 32 years old Pretoria based young woman found herself with lot of free time at home since lockdowns had curbed seriously on outgoings, and thought of a very rare but solidly sustainable good business idea, manufacturing cleaning products from early this year and has since been going well with her business venture.

August 01st to 07th is recognized as World Breastfeeding week, As we observe World Breastfeeding Week, we recognize that increased breastfeeding has positive effects on the development of our entire society. Breastfeeding is recommended as the best source of nutrition and hydration for babies. Breastfeeding protects babies against certain infections and other conditions in early childhood. Any amount of breastmilk is protective, but the longer you breastfeed the greater the benefits. The benefits of breastfeeding extend well beyond basic nutrition. In addition to containing all the vitamins and nutrients the baby needs in the first six months of life, breast milk is packed with disease-fighting substances that protect the baby from illness.

For the past five months the country and many other greater parts of the world have been entangled in an un-ending battle with the invincible enemy that has taken the world by storm and instilled a great amount of fear, Covid-19 or Coronavirus. Covid-19 has created a pandemic that has been at centre-stage or forefront so much to an extend that other illness or underlying conditions have been slightly neglected; all attention has gone to Covid-19. This has created a serious manifesting problem as the other illnesses might also cause serious health related problems for having been neglected for that long.  It is widely known that women need and makes use of more healthcare facilities more than their opposite gender. Women are known to be the ones undergoing monthly health check-ups. Now with the previous lockdown levels we had been undergoing that might have impacted on their movements to get necessary health checks and might result in unnecessary health complications. Today we look at how women can survive Covid-19, better ways they can use or put in place to ensure no contraction of the virus and thorough empowering of their immune systems. 

HIV has been and it still does continue to be problematic underlying silent pandemic amongst our communities. There is still a lot that encompasses the virus itself, stigma and underlying illnesses caused or emerging as a result of the virus. All this challenges associated with the pandemic virus can be swiftly defeated provided that one is open and courageous enough to go out and live their life to the fullest, fighting the virus and all its associated challenged with all they have got. Eventually one may triumph over the pandemic and emerge a hero even in front of the eyes of those who were stigmatizing her. Of all the heroes who triumphed over the HIV pandemic, one of those who needs to be acknowledged is 23 years old miss Hlao Tello. Popularly known as Aunty Botee, the courageous woman of worth has been living with the virus for a little less than a year now. The strong and independent transgender lady from Maseru in Lesotho chose not to let the virus define or dictate to how she should leave her life, instead she led the journey developing a new normal lifestyle of an HIV+ person. She is now volunteering as an HIV testing services lay councillor.

HIV has been and it still does continue to be problematic underlying silent pandemic amongst our communities. There is still a lot that encompasses the virus itself, stigma and underlying illnesses caused or emerging as a result of the virus. All this challenges associated with the pandemic virus can be swiftly defeated provided that one is open and courageous enough to face what they are encountering, and has solid enough support. Eventually one may triumph over the pandemic and emerge a hero even in front of the eyes of those who were stigmatizing her. 35 years old miss Boledi Masehla from Mamelodi has been living with HIV for the past 11 years. Instead of feeling pity for herself or trying to keep it a big lifetime secret, she turned the situation around by volunteering in her community to help children and teens born and living with HIV to cope or deal better with the condition, taking their meds on time and accordingly on time, living and eating healthy, dealing with peer pressure and pursuing their live dreams to the fullest.  

“Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation. They will be the leaders of our country, the creators of our national wealth who care for and protect our people.” This are the words of the great state’s man Dr Nelson Mandela as he was known for continuously advocating for the better life and enough opportunities for children. Just as this current July month is dedicated to the late state’s man Mr Mandela to acknowledge his self-worthiness to the world, it is important to not encourage people to be willing community servants but also acknowledge and celebrate the community heroes for their selfless efforts in helping built a stable nation, a dream we all shared with our former state’s man. After having realized how the image of men was being painted bad day in and day out, Mr Kabelo Chabalala from a village of Pankop, North East of Pretoria saw it feet to start a movement focusing on grooming young boys to be better brothers, uncles, husbands and fathers of tomorrow.

Many people have an issue with people knowing more about their personal lives matters, their finance matters, love-life and their health in general. Yes it is annoying and irritating to have people always snooping into your life, but on other instances may be beneficial to open up and let people know about your personal live matters. 15 years ago when everyone was just going about right with their lives, planning for the future, making commitments and doing all the other finer things in life, 21 years old Mr Lerato Nyelele was at his toughest turning points of his life. Having discovered that he was HIV positive, young ambitious and energetic Lerato was faced up with a tough challenge of having to face the uncertain, accept his new condition and not let it get in the way of his life or let it drown him in sorrow, depression and non-stopping regrets. Luckily the fiercely LGBTIQ activist had it in him to see beyond his HIV status. He knew right there and then that his life cannot end there, there is so much that the world has to offer him and that which he has to give back to the world. Mr Nyelele took a decision to live his life to the fullest and not his status be an obstruction non-so ever, and he has succeeded meaningfully in doing so.  

The past couple of months have been tough for the world as a whole and the better half of human nature. The world was taken a-storm by an invincible virus with questionable origins, leaving many without their loved ones whilst others were without sources of incomes, without their cars and homes as well. All in all these unfortunate events have had a devastating impact on larger parts of the global community, collapsed economies, lost jobs and businesses, slight growth in poverty margins and a very strained global economy. As if this had not been enough, the beginning of 2021 begins with a new Covid-19 variant in South Africa which has so far excessively claimed so many lives, leaving many distraught and quite frightened. The most under-looked or undermined group of society that might be worse affected and terrified is children. After learning so much about Covid-19 and its dangers, some had to suffer losses of their parents, family members and or even teachers as well. 

Our country has officially been hit by the 3rd wave of COVID-19, a respiratory disease caused by a coronavirus. The previous 2 waves had their fair share of troubles, with many doing all in their best to survive it. The same thing is said to apply with the current wave. Covid-19 can affect one’s lungs, throat, and nose. For people who have asthma, infection with the virus could lead to an asthma attack, pneumonia, or other serious lung disease. Although asthma doesn’t raise chances of one getting infected with the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. But if they do get sick, their symptoms could be worse than other people’s because they already have trouble breathing. There’s no treatment for COVID-19. But there are steps you can take to protect yourself and your loved ones including getting vaccinated.

It has grown to be a common belief/practice that although some people still think of fertility as a women's problem in infertile couples, there are many cases whereby the problem is solely with the male partner. Infertility in a man may be the only reason that a couple can't conceive, or it may simply add to the difficulties caused by infertility in his partner. It is crucial that men get tested for fertility as well as women. It's also important that men do it early. Though some guys may want to put off being tested possibly to avoid embarrassment, early testing can spare their partners a great deal of unnecessary discomfort and expense. It's also a good way to quickly narrow down potential problems.

: After more than 26 years of the existence of the pandemic HIV/AIDS, there are still many people who do not know much about the virus, are not well informed on the proper ways of managing with the virus, taking good care of themselves and preventing possible infection of the virus. 07 years ago a man from Rock-lands township, just outside the city of roses Bloemfontein, decided to embark on a mission/journey of creating as much awareness as possible about the virus, informing people on better ways of taking good care of themselves and ensuring that they do not get infected or infecting others by the virus. Mr. Jim Phandle, who works at Bloemfontein SAPS as a cleaner decided to enrol in a program that was taking off at their workplace about peer education. This program would later see Mr Phandle as an HIV/AIDS ambassador. Their work as HIV/AIDS ambassadors include going on awareness programs, informing fellow colleagues in various SAPS about ways and means in which they could manage and better prevent any possibilities of HIV infection. In commemoration of the youth month, Mr Phandle saw it fit to travel all the way to Lesotho for his latest HIV. Awareness campaign titled: “I am HIV+, Will you hug me?”

The month of May has been set aside to commemorate or rather make awareness about amongst others, Anti-tobacco awareness campaign. Although many are aware of the health dangers associated with smoking, millions of South Africans still light up. This is unfortunate because smoking puts one at risk of developing illnesses such as lung cancer, chronic lung diseases and heart disease. It is important to take into consideration that Covid-19 still does exist, and it needs to be emphasised enough when making awareness about Anti-tobacco awareness campaign. Smokers might find themselves at greater risks of becoming fatalities to Covid-19 because the virus primarily targets lung epithelial cells, causing viral pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), especially in elderly patients.

One of the few major life lessons we have thus learned from life ever since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic is that one may plan to do this and that, but the higher forces above us will have a deciding plan or move of action. Many might have planned that after so many years as formal employees, they would have saved enough to do certain projects and so on, or enough to start their small businesses, or to even retire. But covid-19 and its ripple effects did have the ultimate deciding factor, derailing many from their both short and long term plans, and also sending many into stricter destitute corners of unemployment and no incomes non so ever. This then becomes a time when one has to think on their feet steadily so, and derive opportunities from anything at all in one’s surroundings. For great minds like that of Refentse Sekgaolela, such kind of sudden life changing situations do not mean one’s hopes for better life are shuttered, but rather they think on their feet and come up with new better ideas of making a living. The 26 years old Pretoria based young woman found herself with lot of free time at home since lockdowns had curbed seriously on outgoings, and thought of a very rare but solidly sustainable good business idea, cleaning of refuse bins. Refentse started Super Cleaning Wheelie late last year and has since been going well with her business venture.

Winter has once again nocked at our doors again, a chilly cold season loved by many and despised by many as well. Winter is a season known for extreme cold weathers and many do not find it friendly at all, resulting in many seeking warm in their comfortable spaces. Many tend to use heaters, light up fires in their fire places and also use hot water bottles and electric blankets as well. Like many other activities, warming up activities also have their disadvantages, like many getting burned either from home-made fires, or even hot boiling water intended to be used for tea’s or coffees. We are currently observing burns awareness week, a week set aside to commemorating and making as much awareness as possible about burns, dealing with or treating burn wounds and also general safety guarding against suffering any possible burn. .

Agriculture is one of the most important sector in all aspects of life. It is important in both the business sector and the social sector as well. Not only is it a credible and safe sector to invest in, but it also goes as far as providing social security in a form of food security. Fulltime business in the agricultural sector is definitely not an easy one, just like may other types of businesses. It has its own fair share of challenges like any other professional businesses in the competitive market. But for the born-naturals it all comes just naturally for them to get it right, just like with Ms Ipeleng Kgwadi, the 28 years old Managing Director of Motshotelo Farming Enterprise. Miss Kwadi grew up in a family of farmers and has been exposed to farming from her earliest age. Miss Kwadi took a bold step 2 years back of going solo, starting her own farming business producing pigs, goats, chickens and vegetables. To date she has employed over 11 people.

Most if not all women would like to be mothers one say in nearest future in their lifetimes. Mothering is considered one of the natural instincts women possess in within them, and is one of the things that do make them pillars of strength for their communities. They motherly love they have can extend to even their nearest people. Mothering is a lifetime loving process that comes or starts with humble and yet simple steps of conceiving, nurturing the infant throughout the whole pregnancy term until birthing time. Many are common with what is known as the natural birth, or vaginal birth. But due to complications that can be foreseen during the pregnancy term or any other complications that may arise before birthing, medical practitioners can resort to an alternative to natural birth being caesarean birthing, commonly known as C-section birth. Caesarean birthing is a surgical procedure used to deliver a baby through incisions in the abdomen and uterus. A C-section might be planned ahead of time if one develops pregnancy complications or had a previous C-section and aren't considering a vaginal birth after caesarean.

The current world we are living in has been greatly transformed by the industrial revolutions the world has undergone through, bringing in major inventions that eased human’s lives and also bringing a much greater and enjoyable trading markets allowing for various products or inventions and healthy competitions as well. Much great as this all sounds, there still lacks few if not much greater things in the market that are not only going to excel in their trading’s but in easing human’s lives as well. Today’s entrepreneurs have been capitalizing on that and thriving well enough to be recognized abroad. Even new and emerging entrepreneurs are also afforded the same opportunity of launching their products and conception in a vastly competitive markets, like 35 years old Miss Mamello Tlakeli. The Bloemfontein born and bred young woman is the founder of Organic Mello Styles, skin care products aimed at easing or assisting women and teenagers struggling with facial conditions of Acne prone, blemishes, pigmentations and Uneven skin tones.

Health has always been a primary concern to many if not most of us, with women mostly coming at the top of the list of those highly concerned with taking their health serious top priority. After a long hard and tough battle with Covid, many other underlying but serious conditions have taken some sort of a backseat, not getting the necessary attention they deserve, like Endometriosis. Endometriosis can be defined as a painful disorder in which tissue that normally lines the inside of the uterus the endometrium grows outside the uterus. Endometriosis most commonly involves the ovaries, fallopian tubes and the tissue lining the pelvis. Rarely, endometrial tissue may spread beyond pelvic organs. The primary symptom of endometriosis is pelvic pain, often associated with menstrual periods. Although many experience cramping during their menstrual periods, those with endometriosis typically describe menstrual pain that's far worse than usual. Pain also may increase over time. Other symptoms may include Pain with intercourse, Excessive bleeding, Infertility. Other symptoms may be fatigue, diarrhoea, constipation, bloating or nausea, especially during menstrual periods.

The past 12 months have been nothing but extremely difficult to all living in this world, all of various backgrounds and social levels. The economic hardships have hit hard on the labour market, resulting in huge job cuts and small businesses going down the drains as well. As a result of such huge economic hits, many have resorted to using their very own special creative ways of generating revenue by creating own small businesses serving or addressing the issues or needs of essentials highly needed due to lockdown. One of the few smart heads who saw an opportunity and came to the party with essentials needed for lockdown and full time use even after lockdown, is Ms Bonolo Kgarane. A 31 years old hailing from Huhudi in Vryburg saw the need to self-make and destribute sattin bonets for both adults and children, satin pillow cases and weave bags. Having started as a destruction to putting good use of free time as a result of lockdown, Ms Kgarane has now ended up with a blossoming business requiring distribution across the North West province.

The current world we are living in has been greatly transformed by the industrial revolutions the world has undergone through, bringing in major inventions that eased human’s lives and also bringing a much greater and enjoyable trading markets allowing for various products or inventions and healthy competitions as well. Much great as this all sounds, there still lacks few if not much greater things in the market that are not only going to excel in their tradings but in easing human’s lives as well. Today’s entrepreneurs have been capitalizing on that and thriving well enough to be recognized abroad. Even new and emerging entrepreneurs are also afforded the same opportunity of launching their products and conception in a vastly competitive markets, like 28 years old Miss Onneile Khwene. The Supply Chain graduate founded her own Moritelo Skin Care products that are aimed at easing or assisting women and teenagers struggling with facial conditions of Acne prone, blemishes, pigmentations and Uneven skin tones.

Wellness or good health state is what many if not all of us prioritize with at all times, because good health state of healthier bodies equals better and happier life. For infants or babies too healthiness is equally important, as it ensures better development of children’s growth stages including their mentality as well. Unfortunately the unfortunates do happen at times. Sometimes children get to be born with various illness or health challenges that emerge because of other various conditions like foetal syndrome emerging as a result of alcohol consumption during pregnancy. Another factor contributing to a baby having various health challenges is premature birth. Premature or early birth can result in various health complications as a baby may have not had enough time to develop completely before being born. According to World Health Organization (WHO) findings, an estimated 15 million babies are born too early every year. That is more than 1 in 10 babies. Approximately 1 million children die each year due to complications of preterm birth. Many survivors face a lifetime of disability, including learning disabilities and visual and hearing problems.

In an ever changing world that we are currently living in, it is always best and pays big to always brave up and take on the challenges which may be seen by others as too risky, because greater risks always have greater pay offs. In the business world that is currently mushrooming with lots of small SMME’s, taking greater risks can be risky but have greater benefits, daring tough and big markets and competing well in within them can pay off greatly so. Exactly what has been done by our guest for today, 32 years old professional chef Mr Onalenna Pebe. Originating from the villages of Taung, Mr Pebe is a chef not only by profession but by childhood passion as well. He boasts over 8 years of experience as a chef both on national and international scales having worked for few top hotels in the country and also worked abroad as an onboard chef for one of the huge reputable airlines globally.

General human’s health care is something that always takes the priority anywhere in and around the world, hence the governments of all countries in the world see the need to always ensure to give the best they can in health systems to their residents. Individuals are also encouraged now and then to take to cognizance their health status, to always pay a visit now and then at their doctors for a regular health check-up. Be that as it may be, there is a specific gender that always seems to lack behind when coming to take to cognizance their health status, being the male gender. Men are generally not much familiar with regular health check-ups, including even going HIV tests. The popular and uncommon practice most men do is determine their HIV status through or via their partners testing, which is something that mostly occurs compulsory so when women are pregnant, or maybe taking life insurances/policies. Men need to be encouraged to willingly take HIV tests and also commit to taking medications should they test positive.

In an ever changing world that we are currently living in, it is always best and pays big to always brave up and take on the challenges which may be seen by others as too risky, because greater risks always have greater pay offs. In the business world that is currently mushrooming with lots of small SMME’s, taking greater risks can be risky but have greater benefits, daring tough and big markets and competing well in within them can pay off greatly so. Exactly what has been done by our guest for today, 34 years old fashion designer Mr Lethabo Tsatsinyane. 10 years ago Mr Tsatsinyane decided to venture into a risky market of textile and clothing design, a market heavily congested by big and reputable brands. Having had his consistency on achieving his vision, Mr Tsatsinyane managed to grow his brand House of Liter to what it is today, even going to an extend of having five people employed.

This current year has seen nothing but one invisible and previously unknown virus taking over the country and other larger parts of the world by storm, being Corona Virus. The virus, popularly known as or termed Covid-19 has put the health system of the world at large to the toughest test ever, getting Health Care Professionals hard at work battling a pandemic completely new to them, and they have done well thus far. Much as humanity in joint partnership with the Health Care Professionals have done a great commendable job fighting this pandemic, unfortunately there had to be casualties, one too many in this battle against Covid-19. Data suggest that more men than women are dying of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) worldwide, but it is unclear why. The Covid-19 pandemic has shined a spotlight on the neglect of men’s health at local, state, national, and global levels. According to the largest body of publicly available gender classifying information from global government sources, although no apparent sex differences exist in the number of confirmed cases, more men than women have died of Covid-19 in 41 of 47 countries, and the overall Covid-19 case-fatality ratio is approximately 2.4 times higher among men than among women.

We know that the abuse or neglect of children is tragically common in the world today. Nor are most of us surprised when studies point to a strong link between the physical, sexual, or psychological maltreatment of children and the development of psychiatric problems. It’s easily understandable how spanking a child may damage or rather delay the developing brain, but what about the all-too-common psychological abuse of children? Because the abuse was not physical, these children may be told, as adults, that they should just “get over it.” Physical, sexual, and psychological trauma in childhood may lead to psychiatric difficulties that show up in childhood, adolescence, or adulthood. The victim’s anger, shame, and despair can be directed inward to small symptoms such as depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and post-traumatic stress, or directed outward as aggression, impulsiveness, delinquency, hyperactivity, and substance abuse.

Life of today is relatively challenging, has its own fair share of ups and downs and also challenges that may bring a sudden end to one’s life. On average daily people lose their lives to roads accidents, fatal attacks, and fatal illnesses that sometimes emerge suddenly. Of all the mentioned unfortunate events, the gender most affected is men. It has been said that men’s life expectancy is much shorter that those of women, due to them being prone to all the unfortunate and suddenly emerging incidents. Whilst it may not be possible to ensure accurate avoidance of all the above mentioned incidents, regular health checkups with medical experts can greatly help in reducing possibilities of illnesses that may result in death. Men have previously been known as a gender group not much popularly linked with regular doctor’s visits, unless if and when a sudden illness has emerged and they are fearing the worst. Regular medical checkups can greatly help with reduction of any possible life threatening illnesses commonly affecting men like heart diseases, Cancer, Strokes, Chronic Pulmonary Diseases, Diabetes and others.

Many people have an issue with people knowing more about their personal lives matters, their finance matters, love life and their health in general. Yes it is annoying and irritating to have people always snooping into your life, but on other instances may be beneficial to open up and let people know about your personal live matters. 14 years ago when everyone was just going about right with their lives, planning for the future, making commitments and doing all the other finer things in life, 21 years old Mr Lerato Nyelele was at his toughest turning points of his life. Having discovered that he was HIV positive, young ambitious and energetic Lerato was faced up with a tough challenge of having to face the uncertain, accept his new condition and not let it get in the way of his life or let it drown him in sorrow, depression and non-stopping regrets. Luckily the fiercely LGBTIQ activist had it in him to see beyond his HIV status. He knew right there and then that his life cannot end there, there is so much that the world has to offer him and that which he has to give back to the world. Mr Nyelele took a decision to live his life to the fullest and not his status be an obstruction non-so ever, and he has succeeded meaningfully in doing so.

Parenting on its own has proven itself to be a wholesome wonderful lifetime experience and a very tough one as well. From having to nurse a new-born baby, to nurturing their growth into tweens and adolescence stages and guiding them as they try to find their feet and discover themselves, its all part of the gruesome and simultaneously enjoyable parenting. Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances occasionally occurring between two people/partners who are supposed to be co-parenting their child or children, the other ends up having been left with the sole responsibility of parenting all on their own. The latest not yet common but developing trend is men having to parent all on their own. This can either be as a result of the spouse passing on, or a divorce and the man ends up with full custody of the children, or at times it emerges as a result of the other parent not being responsible enough, and the man decides to take over the parenting duty all on his own.

The past 7 months of nationwide lockdown which had aimed at combating or delaying the rapid spreading of the Covid-19 pandemic has left many destitute, jobless and many businesses have gone down the solve-able line. On the other hand the other new entrepreneurs have identified new opportunities to pursue post this lockdown mess. Since-well the pandemic has brought or introduced what may be seen as a new world order, the business sector as well in order to keep afloat and relevant has to adapt to the new world order, offer relevant products but at the easiest convenience of the consumers across the geographic sphere. Upon realizing the changes in the business marketing and wanting to keep up with it, 25 years old Miss Khomotjo Mphahlele saw it best to market and sell her new product skin care products on line. Miss Mphahlele has been running The Body Garden, a 100% beauty and cosmetics products online and delivering via courier services

This month of October has been set aside to commemorate amongst others, an invisible terrorizing condition Breast cancer. This type of cancer occurs mostly in women and rarely in men. Symptoms of breast cancer include a lump in the breast, bloody discharge from the nipple and changes in the shape or texture of the nipple or breast. Luckily for all parties concerned, breast cancer does not mean life sentence as it can be treated and permanently eliminated, though the treatment process can have ever lasting unpleasant effects on a concerned person. One of the severe effects it can have is tempering with is fertility issues. Fertility can be defined as not being able to become pregnant after 1 year of trying or not being able to maintain a pregnancy. Some treatments for breast cancer can cause temporary infertility or make it harder for one to get pregnant after treatment ends. Other treatments cause permanent and irreversible menopause, which means one is permanently infertile.

HIV has been and it still does continue to be problematic underlying silent pandemic amongst our communities. There is still a lot that encompasses the virus itself, stigma and underlying illnesses caused or emerging as a result of the virus. All this challenges associated with the pandemic virus can be swiftly defeated provided that one is open and courageous enough to face what they are encountering, and has solid enough support. Eventually one may triumph over the pandemic and emerge a hero even in front of the eyes of those who were stigmatizing her. 35 years old miss Boledi Leshaba from Mamelodi has been living with HIV for the past 11 years. Instead of feeling pity for herself or trying to keep it a big lifetime secret, she turned the situation around by volunteering in her community to help children and teens born and living with HIV to cope or deal better with the condition, taking their meds on time and accordingly on time, living and eating healthy, dealing with peer pressure and pursuing their live dreams to the fullest.

Living and growing in life is not as easy as it is usually portrayed to be on various media platforms. Growing in life requires determination and bravery to face tough challenges head on aim to emerge victorious, and there is lot of pain, suffering and discomfort in the process of growing as an individual and growing what you intend to. The very same applies in the business sector, to grow your business or product requires lot of selflessness and be willing to invest lot of your time, energy and skills into it, more especially in an already clustered market that has all products designed to simplify human lives already circulating in market in competition with one another. But that does not stop many ambitious entrepreneurs from entering the market and competing with the big corporates and so on. The same is currently being done by Mrs Refilwe Matabane. The 38 years old fashion designer who has been running her clothing store for over five years now has decided to venture into yet another market already dominated by big brands, body weight management or slimming teas.

Hardships of life are common amongst many lately; life has its own fair share of challenges that hit us all hard now and then. Discomfort has been common lately due to all these life’s hardships. The important and show-changing moment thing is how you deal with your discomfort. Mother, Wife and Career Woman, Phoebe Setshedi was one day on a usual trip commuting with a taxi, and happened to have gotten into a disagreement with a taxi driver. The first thing he said to her was “YOU HAVE A DIRTY SKIN”, Phoebe remembers somberly. This hit hard to a model wanna-be who could not score any gig due to her skin condition which was not eye-appealing. In 2014 Phoebe founded her skin and body care range products specializing or focusing on Psoriasis, Eczema and Dry Skin. With a passion for beauty, Phoebe aims to bring skin rejuvenation, body relaxation and inner peace to each client’s home, through her intoxicatingly therapeutic Phoebe Beauty range of skin products, body relaxers and mind unwinders. Pearl Phoebe Setshedi creates and manufactures organic, handmade beauty rejuvenation products, unique in their formulation and composition design.

This month of October has been set aside to commemorate amongst others, an invisible terrorizing condition Breast cancer. This type of cancer occurs mostly in women and rarely in men. Symptoms of breast cancer include a lump in the breast, bloody discharge from the nipple and changes in the shape or texture of the nipple or breast. The incidence of breast cancer among South African women is increasing and it is one of the most common cancers among women in South Africa. It is the most prevalent cancer amongst white and Asian women and the second most common cancer among black and coloured women. Though very traumatic to just think of it without having seen symptoms or any, early detection of the condition can lead to effective treatment and a positive prognosis. About 90% of patients survive for many years after diagnosis when breast cancer is detected at the early stages. Regular self-breast examination and regular mammograms are key to early detection.

: Raising a child has been said to be the most precious and most memorable gift one can ever receive and experience. The comfort and confidence of knowing that you have been entrusted with caring for an nurturing a little soul that will grow to be a more older mature and a meaningful person to the society. But raising a child can be twice as hard as well as there is no basic instruction manual to parenting 101. As humans we are all different, have got our own various ways and means of expressing ourselves, but the most common one universally being through verbal expressions, talking out. This is not very much familiar or common amongst little children as they are still learning how to verbally express themselves with words, some don’t know how to positively argue their point. So the common universal expression amongst young ones becomes crying, and throwing tantrums. Many parents brush off throwing of tantrums by their kids as just being spoiled or trying to be emotionally manipulative in order to attain or get what they wish for. What many don’t know is that at times it may be an expression of a serious issue a child cannot talk verbally about. If not attended to on time, the situation can grow into early toddler stages. Like it is widely seen on various social media platforms whereby kids young as 7,8 to 10 having an altercation with their teachers.