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 | Cari Coetzee We chat to the founder and co-creator of TheTreeApp, one of the most powerful tree identification apps on the market, Val Thomas... read | |  | Nicci Botha Discovery Health has built its very successful Vitality programme, which is a blueprint for other rewards schemes, not only in healthcare, but other sectors too... read | |  | Cari Coetzee Aerial data analytics specialist helping farmers optimise their crops, Aerobotics and Dutch environmental technology enterprise, RanMarine, teams up in #cocreate2Accelerate and looks at river water management... read | |
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 | Sixteen scientists solving Africa's and the world's challenges have been announced as part of the Next Einstein Forum's (NEF) second fellows class... read |
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 | Keri-Leigh Paschal and Hlengiwe Zulu Over the past few months we have spent many hours with top social development investors and not-for-profit organisations... read |
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 | As part of its Waste to Wave project, Jaguar Land Rover has created a surfboard using recycled plastic derived from early clay design models... read |
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 | Nana Zuke, Issued by INTEC College Intec College staff dedicated their time to serve food to the homeless through their food drive initiative titled ‘Fill the Gap' at the Milnerton Lighthouse and the Grand Parade in Cape Town City respectively... read |
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 | Nana Zuke, Issued by Damelin As part of a community engagement programme, Damelin Menlyn donated books to a non-profit organisation, Care Net-Development in Boekenhout... read |
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 | South African fundraising programme, MySchool MyVillage MyPlanet is launching a new fund Dream2Teach, aimed at investing in teacher education... read |
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 | Paul Hanna Tourism is notoriously problematic for some developing destinations as it diverts often scarce water and energy resources from the host community... read |
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 | Hotels and accommodation facilities have already put water saving measures in place, but it's still a challenge for popular tourist attractions like Cape Point... read |
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 | Susana Clusella-Trullas and Raquel A Garcia Most people would agree that invasive plants are unwanted... read |
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 | Erky Wood presented the third Roelof S. Uytenbogaardt UDISA Memorial Lecture at the Wits Planetarium on 12 September... read |
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 | About 4,000 lower-income households in Cape Town are expected to benefit from affordable housing developments on well-located city-owned land... read |
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 | The 112th annual Master Builders South Africa (MBSA) Congress, under the theme 'Building South Africa Together', kicked off on Monday, 11 September, at the Century City Conference Centre in Cape Town... read |
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 | South African architect Heidi van Eeden was announced the winner in the Next Generation category of the Regional LafargeHolcim Awards held recently in Nairobi, Kenya... read |
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 | Zbynek Malenovský and Arko Lucieer Mosses are sensitive to even minor changes in their living conditions, and scientists traditionally tramped through difficult terrain to collect data on them... read |
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 | Shaun Gillham At the forefront of South Africa's energy revolution, Port Elizabeth energy services company Energyworx is poised to supply several Nelson Mandela Bay outlets of a national fast food chain with green power... read |
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 | Developers of the Sandton Gate mixed-use development Abland and Tiber are targeting a Green Star certification for the whole precinct under the Green Building Council South Africa's (GBCSA) new Green Star Sustainable Precincts tool... read |
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 | While the commercial sector has led the charge in terms of green building initiatives and ratings, the residential property market is now also embracing this trend... read |
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 | Asit K. Biswas and Kris Hartley Asian cities are struggling to accommodate rapid urban migration, and development is encroaching on flood-prone areas... read |
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 | R&R - reuse and recycle - is at the top of Table Bay's waste management agenda and the hotel is currently running an extensive training programme to educate staff on "how". read |
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 | US tech giant Apple's plan to build a new €850m ($1.0bn) data centre in Ireland is being held up by conservationists seeking to preserve the forest where it is to be built... read |
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 | Jamie Matroos While studying in Europe, Egyptian entrepreneurs Rana Rafie and Yara Yassin were inspired by the recycling and upcycling boom taking place around them... read |
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 | The chocolate industry is indirectly driving massive and illegal deforestation in Ivory Coast, fuelling a catastrophic decline in wildlife... read |
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 | Alex Ezeh, Nelson Sewankambo and Peter Piot There is huge diversity within and across the 49 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The challenges these countries face in achieving health outcomes that are at par with low and middle income countries in other regions of the world are numerous and diverse... read |
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 | Eight of KPMG SA's senior executives have "resigned", following KPMG International's investigation... read |
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