Finance MEC Ina Cronje, SaveAct board member Ilan Lax and Mkhambathini Mayor Thobekile Maphumulo handed out certificates at a lively graduation ceremony involving about 300 members of SaveAct-led savings and credit groups from the Table Mountain area on May 12, 2011 in the Maqongqo Community Hall. The ceremony was held under the auspices of the KZN Financial Literacy Association.

Most of SaveAct-promoted savings and credit groups are dominated by women, but men are making some valuable contributions, not only to savings groups but to nurturing the younger generation.

Recent payouts in the Underberg region yielded increases of up to 56% in share value. We share some of the comments from members of the groups.

SaveAct's Nqe Dlamini recently returned from France where he delivered a paper on PhotoVoice at the ISDA2010 symposium. 

Members of SaveAct SCGs are using PhotoVoice to tell their own stories about changes in their lives as a consequence of their participation in savings groups. Watch some of them on YouTube here.

Partnership and collective action creates new scope for livelihoods and innovation in agriculture, writes SaveAct executive director Anton Krone.