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Chivas Venture 2018 open for entries
Chivas Venture 2018 open for entries
Chivas Venture entails a global search for the next generation of business trailblazers that want to change the world for the better, with $1m up for grabs. The 2018 edition is now open for entries... read

Entrepreneur Month
#EntrepreneurMonth: Here's to the African entrepreneurs
Here's to the African entrepreneurs

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Join us in celebrating the courageous innovators, in small businesses and large, in South Africa and the rest of Africa, who take the risks that create new revenues, models and livelihoods, as we designate October and November as Entrepreneur Month across 18 industries on Biz... read
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Circular Economy
2017 SAB Foundation Social Innovation and Disability Empowerment Awards finalists revealed
2017 SAB Foundation Social Innovation and Disability Empowerment Awards finalists revealed
The 24 finalists in this year's SAB Foundation Social Innovation Awards and Disability Empowerment Awards have been announced. The winners will be revealed at an official awards ceremony on Monday, 23 October... read
#InnovationMonth: Propertuity, LOT-EK collaborate on SA's first large-scale residential container development
#InnovationMonth: Propertuity, LOT-EK collaborate on SA's first large-scale residential container development

Sindy Peters

Property developer Propertuity partnered recently with New York-based architecture firm and upcycling experts LOT-EK in creating South Africa's first large-scale residential container development, Drivelines... read
Space Base Bed Base wins SAPRO Best Recycled Product of the Year award
Space Base Bed Base wins SAPRO Best Recycled Product of the Year award
Graham Coleman and Gianni Nosenzo of Cycliq in Wadeville were awarded the SAPRO trophy for the Best Recycled Product of the Year at the organisation's sixth biennial awards ceremony... read
Climate Change
Why now is the time for sustainability in travel
Why now is the time for sustainability in travel

Brett Tollman

The United Nations has designated this year as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development... read
Education & Training
New UJ research centre aims to reduce poverty
New UJ research centre aims to reduce poverty
Poverty trends research]] released by Statistics South Africa in August shows that poverty levels are on the rise, with 55.5% of South Africans living in poverty in 2015. UJ's new initiative, the Africa Centre for Evidence, intends to change all that... read
Intern programme partnership boosts tech graduates' employability
Intern programme partnership boosts tech graduates' employability
E4 has partnered with the EOH Youth Job Creation Initiative and the National Skills Fund Project and Internship Programme to give aspiring technology graduates the opportunity to gain both valuable and practical work experience to help kick-start their careers... read
Environment & Natural Resources
2017 Tusk Conservation Awards to be streamed live
2017 Tusk Conservation Awards to be streamed live
The 2017 Tusk Conservation Awards will be held in Cape Town on 4 October, recognising conservationists who share a passion for African wildlife and the protection of its delicate ecosystems... read
Food, Water & Energy Security
AGT Foods signs on to RADA drive
AGT Foods signs on to RADA drive
AGT Foods and RADA personnel recently set off for Thata Kematla orphanage and Vuyiswa, a home for mentally and physically disabled people, in Orange Farm to deliver 100kg of green pea chips and 40kg of potato granules... read
The 3D-printed snack of the future by Chloé Rutzerveld
The 3D-printed snack of the future by Chloé Rutzerveld

Emile Uys

Edible Growth is the food science creation of Eindhoven University of Technology graduate Chloé Rutzerveld. It is a critical look at current 3D-printing technology... read
#InnovationMonth: This simple solution rolls a long way in ensuring water access in rural communities
#InnovationMonth: This simple solution rolls a long way in ensuring water access in rural communities

Sindy Peters

More than 20 years since its inception, the low-tech Hippo Roller continues to have a profound impact on communities facing water insecurity... read
Health & Welfare
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How land reform and rural development can help reduce poverty in South Africa

Leslie J. Bank and Tim GB Hart

South Africa will need to review its land reform policy, with an eye to boosting productive land use among the rural poor, if it is to push back rising poverty levels... read
Inclusion & Equality
AWIEF 2017 aims to ignite change in Africa's socioeconomic landscape
AWIEF 2017 aims to ignite change in Africa's socioeconomic landscape
Cape Town will host the third annual Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) from 5-6 October at the Century City Conference Centre... read
Stor-Age re-commits to Santa Shoebox project partnership
Stor-Age re-commits to Santa Shoebox project partnership
Stor-Age has committed for the sixth consecutive year to its Santa Shoebox project partnership... read
The High Court in Pretoria has declared a section of the Upgrading of Land Tenure Rights Act invalid. Photo: Wikipedia user Cvanrooyen (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Court declares land tenure act invalid

Safura Abdool Karim

Parliament told to fix section which discriminates against women... read
The City of Cape Town has decided not to proceed with the expansion of Wolwerivier settlement. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks
City of Cape Town shelves Wolwerivier housing project

Peter Luhanga

Other sites should be prioritised, says Brett Herron... read
Infrastructure and Technology
PhD chemistry students Anton Hamann (left) and Jonathan Hay with the ‘Closed-Cold-Water-Recycling-System' they developed for their laboratory in the De Beers Building at Stellenbosch University. Photo: Stefan Els
SU chemistry students reduce water use in lab by 3,000l per week
Stellenbosch University chemistry PhD students Monica Clements, Jonathan Hay and Anton Hamann have reduced their laboratory's water consumption by at least 3,000l per week... read
CityTree: The oxygen-producing forest in miniature
CityTree: The oxygen-producing forest in miniature

Emile Uys

This compact green wall cleanses the air of pollutants and acts as a sound barrier for congested urban areas... read
Pollution & Waste Management
No delay for PE waterfront plan
No delay for PE waterfront plan
The relocation of the manganese ore dump and fuel tank farm to Ngqura will not delay the impending development of phase one of the Port Elizabeth waterfront... read
International
Nestle tackles 'ocean-polluter' tag in Philippines
Nestle tackles 'ocean-polluter' tag in Philippines
Global food and beverage giant Nestle vowed on Tuesday, 26 September, to address allegations by Greenpeace that it was polluting the world's oceans with cheap plastic packaging for its Philippine products... read
Cost of climate disasters to reach half of US growth in a decade
Cost of climate disasters to reach half of US growth in a decade
Economic losses from severe storms, hurricanes, floods, drought and wildfires could reach at least $360bn a year in the next decade in America... read
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Africa
Economic inequality lies behind growing calls for secession in Nigeria
Economic inequality lies behind growing calls for secession in Nigeria

Omolade Adunbi

The rise of ethnic and religious nationalism in Nigeria in the last decade has led to such high levels of tension that it's prompted people to ask if it will survive as a country... read
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