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31/10/2025

Meet South Africa's Amber Specman, a woman who refuses to throw her hands up in despair at her country's dire unemployment figures. Instead, she's joined a non-profit team equipping people in Khayelitsha township with skills that overcome the profound sense of worthlessness many of her students feel🧡

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She lost her mom at seven but she's nobody's victim. Why is Amber Specman changing the lives of unemployed people at South Africa's Learn to Earn?

31/10/2025

'I was seven when my mother died but I never felt alone because my aunts and grandmother showed up for me in a very motherly way. The idea of making a difference came during university, when I had the maturity to see life’s bigger picture.'

Meet Amber Specman, who's part of a non-profit team equipping unemployed people in Khayelitsha with work and emotional skills that change their lives🧡

'Many students arrive feeling worthless and one of the most rewarding parts of my work is seeing them overcome trauma and become confident,' she says 🇿🇦👏

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'Many students arrive feeling worthless,' says Amber Specman. How are she and her team changing the lives of unemployed people at South Africa's Learn to Earn?

25/09/2025

'I was very nervous. This was one of the most daring things I’d ever done,' says Denzel, a third-generation South African wine farm worker. As a teenager, he decided to challenge for a white-collar position on the farm that no-one who looked like him had ever held before😬

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25/09/2025

'I'd reached breaking point and simply had to challenge the situation,' says Denzel Swarts, a third-generation South African wine farm worker who realised as a teenager his skin colour might be affecting his promotion prospects.

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28/08/2025

'For most of my life I was a happy person. But then I fell into a dark space.'

The University of Cape Town's high-flying Professor Windapo, recently dubbed Best Woman in African Construction, went through a depression that crippled her. What got her back on track? 💪

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28/08/2025

‘It was as if a cloud came upon me that I couldn’t lift or explain. I just kept thinking negative thoughts.’

Recently dubbed Best Woman in African Construction, the University of Cape Town's Professor Abimbola Windapo has always been a high flyer. But for a period of her life she became depressed and unable to work. What got her back on track?🙌

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30/07/2025

Awwwwww! See how a little bit of love can go a long way, especially in South Africa 🇿🇦❤️

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30/07/2025

Ever feel overwhelmed by the world? Snap! But today, we're celebrating the fact that we're not as helpless as we feel. A little act of love can go a long way: see how a gift from one colleague to another helped dozens of children in a Cape Town township experience the joy of books📚

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