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| 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 |
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| Issued by Bizcommunity.com 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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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Brett Tollman The United Nations has designated this year as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development... read |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Stor-Age has committed for the sixth consecutive year to its Santa Shoebox project partnership... read |
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| Safura Abdool Karim Parliament told to fix section which discriminates against women... read |
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| Peter Luhanga Other sites should be prioritised, says Brett Herron... read |
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| 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 |
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| Emile Uys This compact green wall cleanses the air of pollutants and acts as a sound barrier for congested urban areas... read |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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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| 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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