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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

Source: African Development Bank Group.

$474.6m funding for SA's energy and infrastructure overhaul

Source: The Banking Association South Africa.

Reserve Bank ownership: Proposal divides policymakers, economists

How Absa is driving an entrepreneurial mindset revolution for SA

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'World's worst environmental disaster' set to be repeated with controversial new dam in Africa

'World's worst environmental disaster' set to be repeated with controversial new dam in Africa

Timothy Clack 29 Nov 2018

#16Survivors for #16DaysOfActivism campaign launched

#16Survivors for #16DaysOfActivism campaign launched

28 Nov 2018

Promise of right to housing remains elusive in democratic South Africa

Promise of right to housing remains elusive in democratic South Africa

Soraya Beukes 27 Nov 2018

Professor Thuli Madonsela and FMHS Dean, Professor Jimmy Volmink

Stamping out social injustice in healthcare

Florence de Vries 26 Nov 2018

Vuyiseka Dubula-Majola recognised with international prize for human rights

Vuyiseka Dubula-Majola recognised with international prize for human rights

26 Nov 2018

Artist’s impression of the future Old Conradie Hospital Development in Pinelands. Source: Western Cape Government

Residents oppose Conradie Hospital housing plan

26 Nov 2018

Graça Machel calls on Africa to 'aggressively address its gender-specific challenges'

Graça Machel calls on Africa to 'aggressively address its gender-specific challenges'

22 Nov 2018

Bo-Kaap protesters in stand-off with crane

Bo-Kaap protesters in stand-off with crane

Aidan Jones and Ashraf Hendricks 21 Nov 2018

Divercity turns first sod of Jewel City redevelopment

Divercity turns first sod of Jewel City redevelopment

20 Nov 2018

Think the world's connected? Think again. A slide from BRCK's AfricaCom 2020 session.

#FairnessFirst: How Africa's digital divide is being diminished, one innovation at a time

Leigh Andrews 19 Nov 2018

The Bo-Kaap Civic and Ratepayers Association opposes the construction of a 12-storey apartment block on Lion Street. Archive photo: Aidan Jones

Court stops Bo-Kaap residents from interfering with tower block construction

Kelly Vinett 14 Nov 2018

Farm workers demand dividends from black empowerment scheme

Farm workers demand dividends from black empowerment scheme

Joseph Chirume 14 Nov 2018

Why we need to work with local communities in tackling the illegal wildlife economy

Why we need to work with local communities in tackling the illegal wildlife economy

13 Nov 2018

Namibian farmland by Sigismund von Dobschütz, CC BY-SA 3.0,

Namibia's long-standing land issue remains unresolved

Henning Melber 13 Nov 2018

#FairnessFirst: Why investigative journalism and media freedom matters

#FairnessFirst: Why investigative journalism and media freedom matters

Leigh Andrews 12 Nov 2018

South Africa is set on fixing its economy. But will poor people benefit?

South Africa is set on fixing its economy. But will poor people benefit?

Danny Bradlow 12 Nov 2018

L-R: Farmers, commercial and smaller scale, working together for the improvement of lives: Andrew Pooler, Dave van Rensburg, Cyril Hlengwa, Rob Stayplton-Smith and Siya Hlengwa

KZN NPO facilitates transformation in agriculture through skills development, knowledge sharing

9 Nov 2018

Atterbury, Talis Investment Partners conclude significant B-BBEE deal

Atterbury, Talis Investment Partners conclude significant B-BBEE deal

9 Nov 2018

Why did the City of Cape Town delay social housing in Salt River?

Why did the City of Cape Town delay social housing in Salt River?

Kelly Vinett 8 Nov 2018

People who lost their shacks in October’s fire in Overcome Heights tried to rebuild their shacks on private land because their was no longer space to rebuild in their old locations. Photo: Bernard Chiguvare

Fire victims rebuild their homes, only to have them demolished by city

Bernard Chiguvare 6 Nov 2018

R800m committed to provide support to women, youth farmers to ready them for planting season

R800m committed to provide support to women, youth farmers to ready them for planting season

6 Nov 2018

Bonang will host the first People's Pageant SA in 2019

Bonang will host the first People's Pageant SA in 2019

6 Nov 2018

Land reform an economic necessity, says Ramaphosa

Land reform an economic necessity, says Ramaphosa

5 Nov 2018

Team VML South Africa, presenting at the Red & Yellow School's #DigitalAgencyShowcase. Image via VML SA .

#FairnessFirst: Meet the future of advertising

Leigh Andrews 5 Nov 2018

Brett Herron, JP Smith in war of words over social housing

Brett Herron, JP Smith in war of words over social housing

Thembela Ntongana and Kelly Vinett 2 Nov 2018

The 'old boys club' and glass ceilings for women in the SA news media

The 'old boys club' and glass ceilings for women in the SA news media

Prof. Ylva Rodny-Gumede 31 Oct 2018

Bonang Matheba accepts 5 For Changemaker Award at #5ForChange Jozi debut

Bonang Matheba accepts 5 For Changemaker Award at #5ForChange Jozi debut

30 Oct 2018

Girl power high up on the CN Africa, Save the Children agenda

Girl power high up on the CN Africa, Save the Children agenda

Sindy Peters 29 Oct 2018

#FairnessFirst: Busting stereotypes of SA women in the workplace

#FairnessFirst: Busting stereotypes of SA women in the workplace

Leigh Andrews 29 Oct 2018

Salt River market along Voortrekker Road is located on two MyCiTi bus routes and alongside Salt River Rail Station, a site that councillor Brett Herron has said “is the perfect location for a higher density mixed use, mixed-income development in the inner city”. Photo: 2018 Google map / 2018 AfriGis (Pty) Ltd

Cape Town City Council delays decision on social housing project

Aidan Jones 26 Oct 2018

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