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 | The Khusela Ikhaya Project aims to prevent rapid-spreading shack fires through the application of a specifically formulated intumescent (fire-retardant) paint... read | |  | Marking International Mandela Day, Sun International has partnered with Stop Hunger Now to pack and distribute two million nutritious meals locally and ten million across the world... read | |  | Relate Bracelets, collaborating with the Mandela Bangle, has embarked on a campaign for national hope and solidarity to mark Mandela Day 2016... read | |
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 | Issued by Bizcommunity.com As Bizcommunity's reputation as a premier global resource for industry news from the African continent increases, so our 600+ Press Office holders and company listings are reaping the benefits... read |
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 | Issued by Grey A campaign launched by the National Council of SPCAs (NSPCA) that highlighted the rampant crime of dogfighting in South Africa sparked a wildfire across social and traditional channels... read |
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 | Boris Dzhingarov, Issued by Monetary Library Most businesses understand the concept of "giving back" and agree it's a good thing, but they don't understand just how important it is, or how they can get started... read |
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 | Sindy Peters As Youth Month draws to a close, we interview activist and entrepreneur Zaid Philander on his social enterprise I Scream & Red... read |
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 | According to a new assessment, individual country pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions would need to be strengthened in order to limit future climate change to well below the 2°C limit included in the Paris climate agreement... read |
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 | Sindy Peters South Africa has the third highest unemployment rate in the world between the ages of 15 and 24... read |
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 | SAP Africa has officially introduced Cape Town to the latest chapter in the company's Skills for Africa skills development and job creation initiative. The SAP Skills for Africa programme... read |
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 | Issued by Sappi A group of young people from deeply rural communities in southern KwaZulu-Natal are taking the bull by the horns - or rather the bees by the knees - and helping to change their communities from within... read |
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 | Dhesigen Naidoo, CEO of the Water Research Commission (WRC), recently received the 2016 Water Award on behalf of the WRC, government and people of South Africa at the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation's 10th anniversary gala dinner... read |
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 | The hole in the ozone layer over the Antarctic has begun to shrink... read |
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 | Three-year-old eastern black rhino Eliska was succesfully transferred from her birthplace in the Czech Republic to a natural park in Tanzania as part of an ongoing conservation project... read |
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 | Baraka Rateng A deal aimed to double agricultural production and end hunger in Africa has underestimated the impact climate change will have on the continent's food production... read |
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 | South African restaurants are invited to enter the inaugural Eat Out Woolworths Sustainability Award, the winner of which will be announced at the 2016 Eat Out Mercedes-Benz Restaurant Awards later this year. read |
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 | With less food and more people, demand is outstripping supply. One solution to this problem could be the creation of fake foods... read |
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 | For 28 years, Reach For A Dream has been granting wishes, big and small, to South African children fighting life-threatening diseases such as cancer, cystic fibrosis and heart conditions... read |
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 | Rejul Bejoy The Bridges not Barriers campaign is planning to appeal a decision by the City Municipal Planning Tribunal to approve a 19-storey development, which it says will cut off the views of Bo-Kaap and further divide the neighbourhood from the city... read |
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 | Alistair Anderson Growthpoint Properties, the largest South African-based real estate company, says basic greening features can dramatically boost productivity levels... read |
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 | Katie de Klee AirCarbon is a plastic polymer made out of methane emissions that would otherwise be polluting the air... read |
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 | Katie de Klee Anthony Brown has developed the Si-Low, a low-cost grain storage unit to help prevent farmers in Africa from loosing their grain after they harvest... read |
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 | The Kouga Wind Farm has announced that it will be injecting more than R800m into community economic development projects over the course of its 20-year lifespan... read |
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 | Two communities in rural Kenya have received a new model for clean, affordable and reliable solar energy, which allows them to switch on lights for the first time... read |
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 | Ashish Sharma More than half of the world's population lives in cities, and the United Nations projects that this share will rise to 70 percent by 2050... read |
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 | Cari Van Wyk The WRC hosted a Youth and Water Entrepreneurship dialogue which saw youth entrepreneurs pitching their water innovations to experts and leaders... read |
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 | Solid Green Consulting has been awarded six-star Green Star SA Interiors v1 certification for the company's offices in Rosebank, Johannesburg... read |
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 | The CSIR has estimated that commercial farmers in the Dwars River area spend approximately R600,000 annually to rid their irrigation systems of filamentous algae... read |
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