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 | Sindy Peters Professor Jeffrey Sachs, director of The Earth Institute, addressed attendees at the sixth World Sustainability Forum, recently held in Cape Town, providing six key investment areas that he believes need to be a priority for Africa in order for the continent to meet the targets of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). read |
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 | Applications to enter the 2018 Rolex Awards for Enterprise, a series dedicated to young leaders seeking support for their initiatives to make the world a better place, are now open... read |
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 | Stacey Davidson In South Africa, we have proven that this is possible within the tyre waste stream, but there are a few significant elements that have determined the success... read |
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 | Virunga National Park and finance group Aera have launched a VCS carbon certification process for Matebe hydropower plant in the Democratic Republic of Congo... read |
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 | Wayne Martindale Beef from Brazil, avocados from Mexico, lamb from New Zealand, wines from South Africa and green beans from Kenya – food shopping lists have a distinctly international flavour... read |
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 | John Rowan Humans have decimated the world's mammals over the last several thousand years and continue to do so today... read |
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 | The winners of the 2016 Standard Bank Chenin Blanc Top 10 Challenge were recently presented with their cheques, but a number of local community initiatives and the communities they support were the real winners... read |
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 | More than 1,000 students from the “missing middle” stand to benefit from a new student funding scheme... read |
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 | According to the annual Survey of Casino Entertainment in South Africa, Casino Association of South Africa (CASA) members spent over R70m towards education-related initiatives in 2015/16... read |
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 | Issued by Gordon Institute of Business Science GIBS's Social Entrepreneurship Programme (SEP) is a multi-disciplinary training programme which equips participants with the necessary skills to run a business-savvy, socially conscious organisation... read |
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 | Issued by HDI Youth Marketeers For over 14 years now, Pick n Pay and HDI Youth Marketeers have been running a platform that helps provide over 3,000 schools across South Africa with over 250 tons of brand-funded educational content... read |
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 | Hangberg Pre-Primary School, situated in the Hangberg community of Hout Bay in Cape Town, opened its doors this month.... read |
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 | Ove Hoegh-Guldberg The health of the ocean is approaching a turning point. Many principal ocean assets are declining as a result of exploitation. And this is happening at a time when the use of ocean resources to support growth is accelerating... read |
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 | 86 percent of maize and 85 percent of soy in South Africa are genetically modified and most are sprayed with the weedkiller Roundup which contains glyphosate... read |
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 | Drought conditions in the Horn of Africa have intensified since the failure of the October-December rains. FAO estimates that over 17 million people are currently in crisis... read |
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 | One third of the world's population has no electricity, and the same applies for South Africa, where the majority of these people live in rural, remote areas... read |
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 | The implementation of tougher water restrictions from 1 February 2017 has been approved by the City of Cape Town's Council... read |
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 | Saliou Niassy, Sunday Ekesi Eating insects is as old as mankind. Globally, two billion people consume insects, a practise known as entomophagy. It is more common in Africa than anywhere else... read |
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 | #OperationRehab aims to revolutionise the delivery of healthcare and education to disabled people in Africa... read |
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 | Three university professors, who have developed a revolutionary ground water absorption treatment system hope their work will change the lives of millions of rural South Africans... read |
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 | A new report shows strong evidence that fiscal interventions would address health impacts and improve public health... read |
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 | Hannl Cronje In a country chronically plagued by high unemployment, the employment of disabled people is often overlooked as they are excluded from the normal economy and society either by their disability or the prejudices the disabled face... read |
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 | A festive ground-breaking was hed recently for a 7.5MW solar field that will add 15% to Burundi's generation capacity. Attended by government officials, international investors, religious leaders and the diplomatic community, Gigawatt Global announced the $14m pioneering project in Mubuga... read |
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 | Biomimicry is nature's way of letting us know that it already has all the answers... read |
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 | Thabiso Mochiko The electronic-waste industry would need at least four times more recycling centres to cater for the rise in the number of devices and household electrical items that are being discarded regularly in SA, says Keith Anderson, the chairman of the e-Waste Association of SA (eWasa)... read |
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