Local Hero nominee Lindy van der Vyver, 64, from Kei Road, spends ten hours a week cutting fabric and sewing buttons onto renewable sanitary pads to help young girls stay in school through her NPC, Made for Girls. “Girls miss five days of school a month because they have no access to menstrual products.
Ntombekhaya “Sis Pinky” Tsako, 61, from Sunnyridge restores the dignity of students by donating hundreds of shoes to underprivileged schools across the Eastern Cape.
This Easter weekend Pumla Stuurman, 38, celebrated God for helping her to help hundreds of lost rural Eastern Cape matriculants rise up, study and graduate from university.
Yolanda Dyani, 30, from Mdantsane, started a Facebook page which has become a lifeline for victims of abuse, crime, and violence. The public group, Mdantsane United against Crime and Violence, has 94,700 members, and posts hundreds of comments from users. Most members use this large following to help find missing people, stolen items, or more serious cries for help in dangerous and violent situations.
Mdantsane pastor Mawonga Mvelo, 61, could not believe it when he was told he had won the Daily Dispatch Getaway trailer competition. A pastor at the United Pentecostal Church for nearly 30 years, Mvelo received the glistening silver trailer with his wife Grace Mvelo, 51, at the Dispatch warehouse on Tuesday.