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UP and Vodacom Bulls collaborate on UP Giving Month to fight student hunger and financial exclusion

UP and Vodacom Bulls collaborate on UP Giving Month to fight student hunger and financial exclusionUniversity of Pretoria

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Sassa clears up social grant suspension claims

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R1.2bn grant to aid disaster-affected provinces

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Africa’s sustainability changemakers unite: YES ESG and Beyond Awards

Africa’s sustainability changemakers unite: YES ESG and Beyond AwardsESG Africa Conference

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Sustainable resource extraction is a non-negotiable

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AfDB awards SA $1m grant to boost green jobs

The 2025 Global Report on Food Crises sounds the alarm

The 2025 Global Report on Food Crises sounds the alarm

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Sassa clears up social grant suspension claims

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New nature reserve established in the Soutpansberg

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Rhino poachers handed prison sentences

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Regulations limiting the access to the R370-a-month Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant have been found to be unconstitutional and invalid by the High Court in Pretoria on Thursday. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp

Explosive court ruling on SRD grant

Marecia Damons 24 Jan 2025

CIFFT, UN Tourism sign MoU to promote sustainable tourism advertising

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SA calls on US to reconsider withdrawal from Paris Agreement

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In the 2000s activists across the world campaigned for antiretroviral treatment to be made available to people with HIV. One of the consequences of this was PEPFAR, the United States government’s foreign aid HIV programme. Since 2003 it has saved millions of lives. But now its future is unclear. Photo from the Treatment Action Campaign’s march for HIV treatment in Cape Town on 14 February 2003. (photographer unknown)

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Liezl Human 23 Jan 2025

The South African Social Security Agency is to suspend payment of Social Relief of Distress grants where fraud is suspected. Archive photo: Barbara Maregele / GroundUp

Sassa to suspend SRD grants where fraud is suspected

Marecia Damons 22 Jan 2025

Spar and Bata join forces in the Start Like No Other campaign

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Dr Manessah Alagbaoso, the Head: Business Ecosystems and Sustainability for the Standard Bank Group Business and Commercial Banking Unit

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Bevco launches ‘Route to Market Expansion Project’

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South Africa, GEF host international environmental action seminar

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Ashley du Plooy, Chief Executive Officer at ERA

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Dumisani Khumalo, Fibre Circle 17 Jan 2025

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Community work contracts extended for participants aged 55 and older

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Reana Rossouw, owner and founder of Next Generation Consultants

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Khulisa growers gain international knowledge in China

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Sappi 15 Jan 2025

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5 immigration service targets and what Home Affairs needs to achieve them

Imraan Mahomed, Taryn York and Mapaseka Nketu 15 Jan 2025

Kate Stubbs, Marketing Director at Interwaste

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#BizTrends2025: Curating the future - the transformation of food security in South Africa

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Alan Browde 13 Jan 2025

#BizTrends2025: The future of tourism - transformative trends driving growth, sustainability, and innovation

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Feryal Domingo, acting executive director, Inyathelo

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eThekwini bans fishing activities in Umngeni Estuary

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Public called to enter Citizen Science for Water Photo Story Competition

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City of Tshwane declares Hammanskraal water safe for consumption

9 Jan 2025

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Hana Jurikova 8 Jan 2025

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Deadline looms for unconventional gas regulations inputs

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Africa news

AltSchool Africa and Binance launch scholarships to nurture digital skills in 500 Africans

AltSchool Africa and Binance launch scholarships to nurture digital skills in 500 Africans

3 Dec 2024

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South Africa makes historic leap as first African nation to head the G20

Katja Hamilton 3 Dec 2024

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Social impact innovations awarded at 2024 Orange Social Venture Prize

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Doctor Philip Moreira, a gynaecologist and department head at Dalal Jamm Hospital, rides his electric bicycle while commuting to the hospital in Dakar, Senegal, 21 October 2024. Reuters/Zohra Bensemra/File Photo

Senegal's urban cycling trend offers chance to boost green transport

Sofia Christensen 8 Nov 2024

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