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WOMEN'S MONTH
Disruption anticipated at Standard Bank Top Women Conference
Disruption anticipated at Standard Bank Top Women Conference

Issued by Topco Media

What's your next? As an entrepreneurial, ambitious woman, the best place to answer that question is at the must-attend event this Women's Month: the 2017 Standard Bank Top Women Conference... read
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Circular Economy
Nike designs shoebox made out of recycled milk containers and coffee lids
Nike designs shoebox made out of recycled milk containers and coffee lids

Bongani Shweni

Nike partnered with Taiwanese architect and engineer Arthur Huang to design "sustainable and responsible" Air Max packaging... read
Climate Change
Climate change set to increase air pollution deaths by hundreds of thousands by 2100
Climate change set to increase air pollution deaths by hundreds of thousands by 2100

Guang Zeng and Jason West

Climate change is set to increase the amount of ground-level ozone and fine particle pollution we breathe... read
Business, emerging economies take on leadership role in addressing climate change
Business, emerging economies take on leadership role in addressing climate change
Board-level engagement on climate change remains high. This is according to a recent survey issued by PwC on the challenges around climate change... read
Education & Training
Microsoft SA, Brightwave bring connectivity to 213,000 students in Eastern Cape
Microsoft SA, Brightwave bring connectivity to 213,000 students in Eastern Cape
Microsoft South Africa and internet service provider Brightwave, have signed an agreement to bring Wi-Fi and TV white spaces technology based on broadband access to more than 213,000 students in the Eastern Cape... read
#CSIMonth: Stop in for a little Khof & Khuk
#CSIMonth: Stop in for a little Khof & Khuk
Thato Mafokoane doesn't just want to run his own bakery. No, Khof & Khuk in Nellmapius, Pretoria, is much more than that... read
#CSIMonth: Providing skills and employment from the Ground Up
#CSIMonth: Providing skills and employment from the Ground Up

Shan Radcliffe

Skills development and job creation not-for-profit Learn to Earn South Africa has been offering “a hand up, not a hand out” to the unemployed in underprivileged communities for almost 30 years... read
Environment & Natural Resources
MZNP celebrates 80 years of protecting the Cape mountain zebra
MZNP celebrates 80 years of protecting the Cape mountain zebra
As World Ranger Day was celebrated around the globe, SANParks celebrated the 80th birthday of Mountain Zebra National Park which was established for the purpose of protecting the Cape mountain zebra... read
Are you Egypt's next top social entrepreneur?
Are you Egypt's next top social entrepreneur?
A ‘hackathon' contest looks for Egyptian solutions to environmental problems in the fields of energy, recycling and sustainable farming... read
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Earth's 2017 resource 'budget' spent by next week: report
Humanity will have used up its allowance of planetary resources such as water, soil, and clean air for all of 2017 by next week, said a report Tuesday, 25 July... read
#LPC2017: WWF-SASSI founder receives Living Planet Award
#LPC2017: WWF-SASSI founder receives Living Planet Award
SANBI Marine Programme manager Dr Kerry Sink was recognised at this year's WWF-SA Living Planet Conference with the organisation's Living Planet Award... read
#CSIMonth: Samara Game Reserve celebrates 20 years of rehabilitation
#CSIMonth: Samara Game Reserve celebrates 20 years of rehabilitation

Ruth Cooper

This coming November Samara Luxury Private Game Reserve in the Great Karoo celebrates its 20th anniversary. We got in touch owner Sarah Tompkins to get the behind the scenes info on this unique reserve as well as their conservation efforts and upcoming developments. read
Woman held at SA airport for rhino horn smuggling
Woman held at SA airport for rhino horn smuggling
South African police on Wednesday, 26 July, arrested a 24-year-old woman with 20kg of rhino horn before boarding a flight bound for Hong Kong, a spokesman said... read
Food, Water & Energy Security
Ancients learned to thrive on drought
Ancients learned to thrive on drought

Dave Chambers

Adapting to drought is old news in the Western Cape, scientists have found... read
Sasko bakeries spread joy on Mandela Day
Sasko bakeries spread joy on Mandela Day

Issued by The Jupiter Drawing Room Cape Town

On Tuesday, 18 July, the Sasko team joined many South Africans in donating 67 minutes of their time to help others, and commemorate the 67 years of Mandela's life spent fighting for equality... read
The global food system still benefits the rich at the expense of the poor
The global food system still benefits the rich at the expense of the poor

Laura Pereira

While global trade has helped lift many out of poverty, it has not done so evenly. A new way of engaging with the complexity of food systems is needed... read
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Recent rainfall has had little impact as CT continues to face drought crisis
The drought conditions experienced in Cape Town has become the new normal for the city as a water-scarce region... read
Health & Welfare
#CSIMonth: Utilising CSR to create communities that thrive
#CSIMonth: Utilising CSR to create communities that thrive

Lauren Hartzenberg

Diageo SA sees itself as having a responsibility to ensure that its people, its suppliers, and the communities around its operations thrive as a result of the business... read
Inclusion & Equality
Oscar Siziba, Absa managing executive in Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Pretoria; Tshepo Seeta, eSpaza Sum managing director and founder; Anastasia Mathabathe, spaza owner and Tony Ferreira, operations director, Big Save.
Absa invests R10,5m in spaza development
An investment by Absa Bank aims to transform spaza shops into sustainable businesses, able to compete with mainstream retailers... read
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#CreativeMorningsCT: Talking equality with Angel Campey

Leigh Andrews

Girls are supposed to be polite, subversive and supportive, so why did Angel Campey ignore the rules and become a stand-up comedian? She explained exactly why at the equality-themed talk at the latest Creative Mornings Cape Town... read
Western Cape proposes affordable houses near Waterfront
Western Cape proposes affordable houses near Waterfront

Natalie Pertsovsky

Activists say it's not enough... read
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#CSIMonth: Agricultural transformation is a multigenerational, multi-stakeholder undertaking

Cari Coetzee

"We understood that we couldn't create new jobs, facilitate more access to land and opportunity, without providing the means for people to share their skills and technical know-how..." read
Land reform remains a divisive subject 23 years after democracy in South Africa. Filckr
A 10-point plan to accelerate orderly land reform in South Africa

Professor Quinton Johnson

A more than 365-year history of colonialism and apartheid have indelibly affected land, heritage and human rights in South Africa... read
Infrastructure and Technology
Africa's cities face unique risks. What can be done to manage them?
Africa's cities face unique risks. What can be done to manage them?

Sarah Colenbrander

Cities in sub-Saharan Africa are growing fast. Nigeria alone is projected to add 212 million urban dwellers by 2050... read
Pollution & Waste Management
Thousands of plastic bottles and other pieces of plastic litter line the coastline south of Durban after a recent storm - testimony to South Africa's ranking among the top 20 worst marine plastic polluters in the world. Picture: Lisa Guastella
SA one of the worst culprits of marine plastic pollution
When marine scientist Dr Brent Newman visited Durban harbour recently, he was astonished to find not a single crab in a section of mangroves near the Bluff Yacht Club... read
Damelin joins Pretoria FM in the ‘Help Clean Our City' campaign
Damelin joins Pretoria FM in the ‘Help Clean Our City' campaign

Ashmika Chottu, Issued by Damelin

Damelin Menlyn joined hands with Pretoria FM in their ‘Help Clean Our City' campaign aimed at creating environmental awareness and a healthier, cleaner community for all... read
Africa
Three outstanding African innovators walk away with Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) 2017.
Africa's top innovators announced
Three outstanding African innovations walk away with Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) 2017 total cash prize of US$150 000... read
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Rene Miles, managing director at Novare Investments
#WomensMonth: Making your mark in financial services

Rene Miles

Certain stereotypes associated with the financial services industry remain true - it's still male dominated, men earn more than their female counterparts and women aren't adequately represented in senior leadership positions... read
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