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Andy Hadfield From crowdfunding and instant mobile payments for emergency relief to virtual volunteering...read |
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Hannl Cronje NGOs have failed to adapt to new circumstances of the 21st century...read | 
Theunis Coetzer Could it be that recycling the water we have is the key to water availability relief...read |
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 | Alison Groves According to the latest United Nations Economic Commission for Africa report, Africa is the fastest urbanising region after Asia. The report also highlights that despite the current slowdown in many African economies... read | |  | Chrisna Basson What a year it's been! But enough people have written about that, so I'd rather look at a few of the consequences we'll feel in 2018. Which, to my surprise, are mostly positive. I've highlighted four of the best... read | |
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 | Funded by the City of Cape Town, the Western Cape Industrial Symbiosis Programme (WISP) has been shortlisted as a finalist for The Circulars... read |
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 | More than a quarter of Earth's land surface will become "significantly" drier even if humanity manages to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius, the goal espoused in the Paris Agreement, scientists said on Monday, 1 January... read |
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 | Thin Lei Win The world has "barely started to fight this battle" to make agriculture greener - and the coming few years will be decisive... read |
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 | As part of a work experience programme, a total of 400 students from the Henley Business School UK MBA programme have donated around 80 hours of their time (32,000 man hours) to close on 70 Cape-based NGOs over the past decade... read |
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 | Since 2011, BIC has supplied 7.3-million South African underprivileged children via its Buy a Pen, Donate a Pen programme with the relevant stationery tools to fulfil their basic educational needs... read |
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 | Tony Carnie Park rangers in Africa's most famous rhino reserve are going hi-tech to push back against the relentless assault by horn poachers‚ thanks to a R10m injection... read |
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 | Table Mountain National Park has a problem, but Instagram can help... read |
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 | According to sustainability consultancy Environmental Resources Management (ERM), summer rains are not going to wash away South Africa's water crisis... read |
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 | Mary-Anne Gontsana and GroundUp staff Cape Town's municipal water quality is excellent. In normal times there is no good reason to buy bottled water, but these are not normal times... read |
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 | Andrea Freidus Volunteer tourism, or voluntourism, is an emerging trend of travel linked to "doing good". Yet these efforts to help people and the environment have come under heavy criticism - for good reason... read |
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 | Linda Ensor The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) successfully initiated a test case Thursday to directly pay about 100 social grant beneficiaries using commercial bank accounts... read |
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 | Nadine Mayers, Eckard Smuts and Ralph Hamann Unless companies move away from a slavish devotion to the pursuit of profit and learn to act in the interests of the communities that sustain them, the Steinhoff collapse won't be the last corporate disaster... read |
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 | Antonio Savoia Inequality is rising almost everywhere across the world... read |
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 | The South African top five in Chivas Regal's The Venture IV have been selected. The global social entrepreneur competition aims to find and support promising entrepreneurs... read |
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 | The KZN Department of Education: Ugu District Office has received four-star Green Star SA Office Design v1.1 certification from the Green Building Council South Africa (GBCSA)... read |
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 | Celebrating recycling and waste management excellence in the South African PET industry, the 2018 PETCO Awards is open for nominations... read |
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 | Jenny Mbaye In the first week of every February, the streets of Ségou in Mali come to life... read |
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 | An online radio station catering for the LGBT community, believed to be the first of its kind in the Arab world, started broadcasting in Tunisia on Monday... read |
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 | FRANKFURT - Financial pain inflicted by natural disasters worldwide almost doubled in 2017, German reinsurance giant Munich Re said, with a new record in losses from weather-related catastrophes... read |
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 | Air quality in China's notoriously smog-ridden capital in 2017 was the best since pollution control measures were implemented five years ago, the Beijing government announced on Wednesday, 3 January... read |
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