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Lost opportunity: Researcher Teboho Mofokeng says using drinking water to flush toilets is irrational.

Female & Guardian | SA’s loos not flushed with success

Using seawater and recycled water to flush toilets could save millions of litres of potable water daily

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Female & Guardian | Female architects ensure potty parity

The field was dominated by men but now women are coming to the fore with thoughtful buildings

In demand: Chantelle de Bruyn’s organic butternut coffee is a sustainable venture. Photo: Lyse Comins

Female & Guardian | Free State businesswoman’s butternut coffee a bold new brew

Chantelle de Bruyn is stirring up the local market with her blend of sustainability and taste

Preeclampsia is a rising threat to maternal and infant health. Urgent investment in genetic research and early detection could save thousands of lives

Female & Guardian | African women at higher risk of preeclampsia – a dangerous pregnancy complication

Preeclampsia is a complication characterised by high blood pressure and organ damage, arising during the second half of pregnancy, in labour or in the first week after delivery. It plays a major part in about 16% of the deaths of women in sub-Saharan Africa. And it’s on the rise. The incidence of preeclampsia in Africa […]

Hope: Tendani Mulaudzi’s journey through drug addiction – using ecstasy and cocaine – ended in her recovery and setting out on a new path in her life. Photo: Supplied

Female & Guardian | She lost herself to addiction. Writing brought her back

Now a wellness coach and author, Tendani Mulaudzi helps others heal from addiction and trauma using storytelling and personal support

Challenges: Women have trouble accessing care for their newborns as well as facing problems such as poverty, food insecurity and a lack of transport. Photo: File

Female & Guardian | Newborns still dying needlessly in South Africa

Budget cuts, staff shortages and socio-economic barriers continue to undermine efforts to improve neonatal care and reduce infant mortality

Neglect: Women tend to put the immediate needs of their family first, neglecting their own future regarding their work and old age. Photo: Eric Miller/World Bank

Female & Guardian | Education key to financial freedom

Taking steps such as budgeting and investing will help women build financial independence

House of cards: Despite constitutional assurances of gender equality and the right to housing, women find themselves up against patriarchal norms, unequal treatment under customary practices and little protection from the law. Photos: Seri

Female & Guardian | ‘Policies skewed against women’

UN report finds discrimination against women in land and housing programmes

Advantage: Physician Phathokuhle Zondi realised early on that she could combine both her passions – sport and medicine. Photo: Supplied

Female & Guardian | How Dr Phathokuhle Zondi converts on rugby fields

Phathokuhle Zondi broke her first barrier when she took up a post as medical officer for the Blue Bulls

Trailblazer: Buli Ndlovu celebrates those raising children and bottom lines – working mothers. Photo: Supplied

SPONSORED | A love letter to women raising children and bottom lines

Women have to balance their lives as both mothers and as professionals, ensuring neither is neglected, writes Buli Ndlovu

Woman of faith … and finance: Meladi Maditsi.

SPONSORED | Meladi Maditsi: Faith, family and balance

She is a finance specialist at Nedbank in the Group Financial Control unit and loves her work

Creating a safe space: Lerato Semenya.

SPONSORED | LERATO SEMENYA: Creating space to shine

The businesswoman took the brave step of leaving the corporate world and going out on her own

Guardian of environmental impact: Emely van Heesch-Smith. Photo: Ricardo de Leca

SPONSORED | Emely van Heesch-Smith: Florist with a sustainable edge turns over new leaf

With over 30 years of experience in floristry, Emely van Heesch-Smith turned over a new leaf during the Covid pandemic, becoming a sustainable floral décor artist for a new age.   After the whole industry shut down, she decided to find a workable solution for making floristry a sustainable practice, using the dried flowers that she […]

Continuing the legacy: Chicken Licken CEO Chantal Sombonos-Van Tonder.

SPONSORED | Chantal Sombonos-Van Tonder: ‘All women can have it all’

The Chicken Licken leader is a role model for women who refuse to choose between family and career.

The successful business all started with an origami swan made out of 680 pieces of folded paper

SPONSORED | Michelle Mokone: Mo’s Crib: Home décor products on a global stage

The successful business all started with an origami swan made out of 680 pieces of folded paper

Heart of gold: Heidi Marais. Photo: Saleem Naidoo

SPONSORED | HEIDI MARAIS: Creativity via crafting and community

The goldsmith and jewellery designer believes in female empowerment

Growing food, growing jobs: Farmers Hope’s Tebogo Nyathela.

SPONSORED | Tebogo Nyathela: A mother putting food on the country’s table

The CEO of Farmers Hope not only feeds people but ensures that sustainable farming is practiced.

Making room in every corner of medicine: Dr Lati Maloka. Photo: Ricardo de Leca

SPONSORED | Dr Lati Maloka: Aesthetic medicine seen through a brand-new lens

The aesthetic medical doctor blends science, beauty and wellness

Celebrating South Africa’s female guardians

Much of women’s work does not come with a salary but it is invaluable