Seeing South Africa: Meeting Diepsloot’s dynamic youth entrepreneurs

They are young, dynamic and solving problems in their community—Diepsloot township, a mixed formal and informal settlement of 139,000 peopleorth of Johannesburg. These are some of the most impressive young women I met on a cloudy summer’s day during my second visit to a South African township since my arrival in mid-September 2019; part of my immersion into my new home country, to better understand its challenges and, more importantly, its potential.

By: Marie Francoise Marie-Nelly
World Bank Country Director for South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Eswatini