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Investing in sustainability enhances brand value
Investing in sustainability enhances brand value
Investing in sustainability and The Carbon Trust Standard is not only a risk management tool... read
CSI & Sustainability
Impact of junk status on non-profits, civil society
Impact of junk status on non-profits, civil society
South Africa's downgrade to sub-investment level, along with other developments that impact institutional and economic strength, could be particularly bruising for civil society and non-profits... read
2017 Green Talents competition open for entries
2017 Green Talents competition open for entries
Since its inception, the award has recognised 182 young researchers and scientists from 51 nations... read
Climate Change
Implications of new Greenhouse Gas Reporting Regulations for business
Implications of new Greenhouse Gas Reporting Regulations for business

Simon Clarke

After being in draft format for nearly two years, the National Greenhouse Gas Reporting Regulations were published by the minister of Environmental Affairs on 3 April 2017... read
Education & Training
SMME skills development workshop empowers rural women
SMME skills development workshop empowers rural women

Issued by Ithala Development Finance Corporation

The top 20 nominees in the “Imbokodo Iyazenzela” Women in SMMEs Awards 2016 were hosted at a business skills development workshop in Durban... read
Education crucial for Africa - Tony Blair
Education crucial for Africa - Tony Blair

Danette Breitenbach

Part of attracting investment to a country is education... read
A bit for now and a bit for education - Simple. Social. Schooling
A bit for now and a bit for education - Simple. Social. Schooling

Issued by ADDaBIT

Yolinda Koesnel is an educator and visionary in her small community of Rowallan Park, a previously disadvantaged area in Port Elizabeth. ADDaBIT had a chat to Yolinda about her school and her vision for impacting her community through creating a fund... read
SACAP catapults transformation through RPL programme
SACAP catapults transformation through RPL programme

Yashaen Luckan

The South African Council for the Architectural Profession (SACAP) is about to unveil an online platform that will launch its Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) programme... read
Environment & Natural Resources
Endangered species poached in protected areas: WWF
Endangered species poached in protected areas: WWF
Illegal poaching, logging and fishing of sometimes critically endangered species is taking place in nearly half of the world's most protected natural sites, environmental campaigners WWF warned on Tuesday, 18 April... read
Six ways to green your office this Earth Day
Six ways to green your office this Earth Day

Issued by Greenpop

This year, Greenpop is encouraging you to cut back on your business's carbon footprint - and your costs - by making these easy switches!... read
Trio partner to develop resilience framework for northern Durban
Trio partner to develop resilience framework for northern Durban
As part of the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities Programme, Durban aims to create a city that will survive and thrive in spite of environmental and societal changes... read
Food, Water & Energy Security
Solving SA's urgent challenges using cleantech
Solving SA's urgent challenges using cleantech

Sindy Peters

With the Global Cleantech Innovation Programme for SMEs in SA (GCIP-SA) now open for applications, we interviewed Gerswynn McKuur, national project manager of GCIP-SA, to get some insight on how clean technologies could address some of SA's most urgent challenges... read
Inclusion & Equality
Cape Bar tackles inequity at legal practices
Cape Bar tackles inequity at legal practices
The Cape Bar has launched an initiative with legal firms in Cape Town to tackle the lack of transformation in the sector... read
Move to make city highlights more accessible for disabled tourists
Move to make city highlights more accessible for disabled tourists

Siyamtanda Capa

The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality is on a mission to make the city more disabled-friendly by improving accessibility to all tourism hotspots... read
Infrastructure and Technology
Entries close on 18 April for the SingularityU Southern Africa GIC
Entries close on 18 April for the SingularityU Southern Africa GIC

Issued by Mann Made Media

Entries close on 18 April for the Singularity University, Global Impact Challenge. This challenge is an open call to innovators, entrepreneurs, scientists, and technologists to foster moonshot innovations and startups that positively impact the lives of people living in southern Africa... read
Five social good innovations
Five social good innovations
Added Value highlights five social good innovations from around the globe... read
Pollution & Waste Management
The need for skilled individuals in the tyre industry
The need for skilled individuals in the tyre industry

Nobuzwe Mangcu

The South African job market is becoming ever more competitive with the emergence of new industries requiring us to keep moving, be proactive, and not be the inactive spare wheel that sits in the boot... read
Environmental Affairs to probe recycled bag claims
Environmental Affairs to probe recycled bag claims
The Department of Environmental Affairs says it will probe reports that some plastic supermarket carrier bags, which claim to be recycled, are allegedly not... read
International
A Unicef team creating a collaborative paper plane. (Unicef)
How learning empathy can help build better community projects in Africa

Keneilwe Munyai

Empathy is one of the most important skills any leader can have... read
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Uganda's second Slow Food Earth Market launched in Manafwa
The objectives of the Manafwa Earth Market is preserving traditional and local products and bringing together small-scale food producers and consumers... read
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Business
SARB's new loop structure allows foreign investment for start-ups
SARB's new loop structure allows foreign investment for start-ups
Local unlisted research and development companies can establish companies offshore in order to obtain foreign investment without prior approval... read
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