News Bulletin of 18 October 2026, 1pm

Young entrepreneurs have received bursaries and business support at Rotary BizEast’s first pitch festival in Benoni.Fourteen-year-old Lihle Mfenqa won a 28-thousand-rand bursary, while Onalerona Tudu received 25-thousand rand. Both also received laptops and cash prizes. The festival connected young business owners with mentors and potential customers, with plans to help finalists grow their enterprises.
The support gives young entrepreneurs resources and guidance to develop their ideas into sustainable businesses.

Pave The Way has raised around R180,000 since May, funding approximately 720 paid work opportunities while cleaning neglected public spaces across Johannesburg. Founded by Carly Kay, the initiative grew from her concern about overgrown pavements, neglected traffic islands and blocked stormwater drains.Pave The Way uses donations from residents and businesses to provide paid work cleaning public spaces. The team has completed around 30 clean-ups along routes including Oxford Road, Jan Smuts Avenue, Bompas Road and Winnie Mandela Drive. Its work has also reached Rosebank, Dunkeld, Saxonwold, Parkwood, Craighall Park and Hyde Park.
The initiative is making Johannesburg’s neighbourhoods cleaner while creating paid work for people experiencing homelessness, displacement and financial hardship.

Cape Town environmental activist Zoë Prinsloo, who leads the Save a Fishie movement, will join more than 2,200 young leaders at the One Young World Summit in Cape Town.
Her initiative organises beach clean-ups and encourages communities to reduce litter and protect the ocean.The summit brings young leaders together with influential figures in politics, business and humanitarian work to share solutions to global challenges, including climate change, poverty and human rights.The event is returning to Africa for the first time since it was held in Johannesburg in 2013.