MARSEILLES – It’s a sight unbeknown and still peculiar to most: a woman wielding the stick on a large farm abundant with black lively cows and rich crops of maize meal.

BLOEMFONTEIN – A green fingered beauty has emerged from the township of Selosesha, Thaba Nchu, to take on the male dominated industry and has pledged to put a touch of femininity in farming.

BLOEMFONTEIN – In a country where young women are still struggling to find their feet while others have completely given up on life, Nontombi Linah Velelo chose to use her most powerful tool – her brains.

Jackie Ntshingila who leads the Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA) in the Free State is a firm believer in serving and giving a helping hand to those who need it most.

BLOEMFONTEIN – Modise Market Agency was but only an infant less than a decade ago with the owner, Modise Mokgele learning the ropes from anyone willing to lend a helping hand.

She lives her life with the mantra that “if you can dream it, you can do it,” while attributing all her success and the strength to face any new day to the Lord.

BLOEMFONTEIN – When a child is born so is a mother, so the saying goes and for Gerty Adams it was true. She considers herself a “natural born” mother and claims to have enjoyed all five of her pregnancies despite having had her first child at 17.

BLOEMFONTEIN – Jako Liebenberg is a man full of energy and a zest for life. A business and family man who devotes most of his time to living life to the maximum and achieving his dreams particularly in business.

BLOEMFONTEIN – Thabang Motloi has an apparently unassuming outlook, and yet underneath that demeanor there is a strong streak of determination and ambition. Motloi would make a fine statesman with his diplomatic stance on virtually all matters.

BLOEMFONTEIN – Hetsie Veitch is a typical middle class South African yet she spends countless hours every week working alongside poor children in the dusty township on the edge of the city.