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| Joanne van der Walt We need a new approach for Mandela Day (18 July), one that reignites a passion for changing the world... read |
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| Issued by Bizcommunity.com The PSFA's 49th #Blisters4Bread Charity Family Fun Walk in association with Lucky Star will take place on 27 August... read |
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| A new online cause-based pop-up platform, the Forgood Pop-Up Store, allows shoppers to directly support reputable causes when purchasing from its curated selection... read |
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| Following the ban, it may be impossible to find even a remnant of anything that relates to plastic plates, cups and cutlery in the Seychelles... read | | | Sindy Peters After running successful pilots in both Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, Edgars recently launched its UNiTE Orange Day campaign in the Western Cape... read | | | Ruth Cooper Chef Ammaarah Petersen is on a mission to help feed, teach, and uplift communities through food and invites Capetonians to share their good deeds and food experiences on a new social media platform, Indi.com... read | | | Lauren Hartzenberg South Africa's clothing and textile industry has seen some trying times. In the past 15 years, jobs in the local sector have decreased from 200,000 to 19,000... read | |
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| Thembela Ntongana Blessing Lunga makes shoes in his two-roomed shack. He learned how to make them from a man he stayed with in Johannesburg... read |
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| Sharon Snell G20 task force issues new Climate-Related Financial Disclosure Framework... read |
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| Issued by UCT Graduate School of Business The most obvious factor stoking racial tension in South Africa is structural socio-economic inequality, which is heavily, though not exclusively, influenced by race. This is according to Dr Gavin Andersson... read |
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| South African National Parks (SANParks) has launched its annual Kudu Green School Initiative (KGSI) Programme for 2017... read |
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| A multi-stakeholder initiative aimed at equipping unemployed young people with skills and opportunities to participate in the country's marine tourism sector has been launched... read |
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| Issued by Enterprises University of Pretoria Enterprises University of Pretoria will present the biannual 10-day Programme in Environmental Management under the auspices of the Centre for Environmental Studies... read |
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| Julie C. Aleman Tropical Africa has two distinct features - rain forests which are dominated by trees and savannas which are dominated by grasses. Both depend on rainfall quantity and seasonality... read |
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| Issued by uShaka Marine World As soon as the uShaka Sea World Animal Health team were alerted to the arrival of a young male southern elephant seal onto a beach close to Port Shepstone, they made their way down to assess it... read |
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| David Olivier Water access is a key challenge for urban futures... read |
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| Marleny Arnoldi, Issued by Enterprises University of Pretoria Enterprises University of Pretoria's short courses on water quality management and effluent treatment challenge attendees to come up with innovations and designs that will assist in recycling wastewater... read |
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| Dave Chambers At the rate Cape Town's winter rainfall is going, another hot, dry summer will make this year's drought look like a Sunday School picnic... read |
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| Bongani Shweni Sonic launches hybrid burgers that could potentially be a game changer in the fast food chain industry... read |
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| The Grocery Retail Sector Market Inquiry, initiated by the Competition Commission, has received input from the Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation... read |
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| This Mandela Day, Pick n Pay and FoodForward SA have partnered for a national food drive with a goal to provide one million meals... read |
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| Lucy Rodina Cape Town is facing one of its worst droughts in over a century... read |
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| Kwandile Skhosana, Nkosikhona Uzzi Mpungose and Paris Makaringe from the Activate! Change Drivers Network have made the 2017 Mail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans list... read |
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| Ashleigh Furlong Residents will continue with their complaint against acting judge Weinkove at the Judicial Service Commission... read |
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| uMATI - with the agenda to facilitate meaningful change from the ground up - is a non-profit organisation initially established in 2015 out of a need to create a sustainable water supply for the community in the area... read |
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| “Each urban development affects not only those that invest in it or occupy the buildings and places within it, but the wider community... read |
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| Ilse van den Berg Through The Sun Exchange, anyone can go solar and start building wealth powered by sunlight. It allows for collaborative solar finance using blockchain... read |
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| Planet Earth Institute launches the PEI exChange, the first online matching platform for African development... read |
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| The Cape Craft and Design Institute (CCDI) recently launched the second iteration of the Better Living Challenge (BLC) at the Nyanga Arts Development Centre in the Western Cape... read |
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| SAPRO looks to acknowledge local products that will grow the demand for post-consumer recyclate... read |
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| Anika Kozlowski Canada has never been a driving force in fashion. As a nation, our culture and identity are often reduced to stereotypes involving plaid, nature and hockey... read |
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| Chinese companies are planning or constructing hundreds of coal-fired power projects around the world, even as Beijing talks up its commitment to fighting climate change... read |
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| Caroline Henshaw With Myanmar emerging as a manufacturing hub for mass-produced clothes, a crop of young designers are using homegrown fashion to preserve the country's sartorial heritage... read |
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| UNESCO said on Tuesday, 4 July, that it had decided to remove Ivory Coast's Comoe National Park from its list of endangered world heritage sites after more than a decade of conservation efforts... read |
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| Leah Oyake-Ombis Kenya recently announced a ban on one of the most common materials used in the country's packaging sector - plastic bags... read |
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| This year, 400m people, that is one out of 17, mostly poor people, women and children, around the world remain without access to healthcare... read |
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Join Adopt-a-School Foundation as we go Back to School for a Day on Mandela Day for a 67-minute programme of meaningful collaborative volunteering. Read more >>
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