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Youth Day 2025: Equipping the next generation with skills for a changing world

How young South Africans are redefining the hospitality industry this Youth Month

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#See: Africa Tech Week Awards 2025 celebrates innovation

#See: Africa Tech Week Awards 2025 celebrates innovation

#See: Hertex HAUS reopens reimagined Bellville Showroom

#See: Hertex HAUS reopens reimagined Bellville Showroom

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Many recipients of the R370-a-month Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant say they are battling with SASSA’s online verification system. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks

Social grants go unpaid as beneficiaries struggle with Sassa’s systemMarecia Damons

Mandela Day 2025 - Uniting to combat poverty and inequity

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Source: Supplied. Rentia van Tonder is head of Power and at Standard Bank CIB.

From funding to vision: Enabling Africa’s Just Energy TransitionRentia van Tonder and Aadil Cajee

Mandela Day 2025 - Uniting to combat poverty and inequity

Mandela Day 2025 - Uniting to combat poverty and inequity

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Source: Supplied. Rentia van Tonder is head of Power and at Standard Bank CIB.

From funding to vision: Enabling Africa’s Just Energy Transition

By Rentia van Tonder and Aadil Cajee 11 Jun 2025

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Q&A: Mokebe Thulo on Building a Better Tomorrow with Aware.org

Q&A: Mokebe Thulo on Building a Better Tomorrow with Aware.org

Aware.org 21 Oct 2024

Business leaders, small and big, can help end homelesssness by offering work experience, says the writer. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp

How business can help end homelessness

Leanne Porter and Jesse Laitinen 14 Oct 2024

Boundless and NSPCA unveil Adoptim campaign for World Mental Health Day

Boundless and NSPCA unveil Adoptim campaign for World Mental Health Day

Boundless 11 Oct 2024

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Carbon pricing poses threat to economies of developing countries

11 Oct 2024

City of Cape Town's Dial-a-Ride service gets some bold new changes

City of Cape Town's Dial-a-Ride service gets some bold new changes

27 Sep 2024

Johannes Magaela, Phillip Masitenyane and Minah Funani sort plastic items inside Funani’s yard in Tembisa. Photos: Ihsaan Haffejee / GroundUp

Visually impaired recyclers help the planet

Ihsaan Haffejee 26 Sep 2024

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#NampoCape2024: Land Bank and Dept of Agriculture to launch fund to transform SA wine industry

16 Sep 2024

A new chapter of leadership begins at Aware.org

A new chapter of leadership begins at Aware.org

Aware.org 11 Sep 2024

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SA called to learn Sign Language

5 Sep 2024

CTM Tokai partners with Mbali Eco Solutions to empower young girls

CTM Tokai partners with Mbali Eco Solutions to empower young girls

OnPoint PR 5 Sep 2024

Pictured: Naadiya Moosajee. Image supplied.

Naadiya Moosajee's quest to make engineering accessible to girls across Africa

Aa-isha Hassiem 4 Sep 2024

Stepping up youth employability for jobs and better life chances

Stepping up youth employability for jobs and better life chances

Vera Ng’oma, British Council 4 Sep 2024

CodeX: Empowering marginalised youth to thrive in the global digital economy

CodeX: Empowering marginalised youth to thrive in the global digital economy

Project codeX 2 Sep 2024

Source: Cheree Dyers, chief executive officer at Prescient Investment Management.

Reflecting on Women's Month: Why do women get a whole month?

Cheree Dyers 30 Aug 2024

Source: Supplied. Nita Morgan is the Country Manager for Foundever South Africa.

Companies can do much more to empower women

Nita Morgan 29 Aug 2024

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Gauteng municipalities to launch online indigent register

26 Aug 2024

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Looming electricity price hike to hit vulnerable social-housing tenants hard

23 Aug 2024

Supplied image: The pilot project with NEED, ERA’s Enterprise Development Programme, is based at the Cape Town

Pick n Pay e-waste initiative unlocks job creation for people with disabilities

23 Aug 2024

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Narrowing the trillion-rand insurance deficit in South Africa

22 Aug 2024

Blisters for Bread in association with Lucky Star: Entries close 19 August

Blisters for Bread in association with Lucky Star: Entries close 19 August

The Peninsula School Feeding Association 14 Aug 2024

Candice Stevens, founder and CEO of the Sustainable Finance Coalition

#WomensMonth: Candice Stevens - where finance meets passion for conservation

Shan Radcliffe 8 Aug 2024

Waste pickers affiliated to the South African Waste Pickers Association (Sawpa) marched to the City of Johannesburg offices in Braamfontein on Tuesday to demand compensation for collecting recyclables and to oppose plans to incinerate waste. Photos: Kimberly Mutandiro / GroundUp

Hundreds of waste pickers march in Joburg demanding compensation

Kimberly Mutandiro 7 Aug 2024

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Apply for funding for community heritage project

More Matshediso 6 Aug 2024

Pictured: Analisa Sukula with a recycled paver and the recycled materials behind her. Images by Mark Wessels.

Enhancing economic participation and uplifting lives

The Social Employment Fund 6 Aug 2024

10 new speakers announced for Singularity South Africa Summit 2024

10 new speakers announced for Singularity South Africa Summit 2024

Mann Made 2 Aug 2024

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Is the green economy the key to job creation in Africa?

2 Aug 2024

A women must, nothing… Momentum shines a spotlight on social codes impacting women’s finances

A women must, nothing… Momentum shines a spotlight on social codes impacting women’s finances

MSports 1 Aug 2024

#OrchidsandOnions: The Kolisi Foundation turns hunger into play

#OrchidsandOnions: The Kolisi Foundation turns hunger into play

Brendan Seery 31 Jul 2024

City of Cape Town official Megan Pangeni and Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis toured the City’s new 300-bed Safe Space in Green Point on Monday. Photos: Matthew Hirsch / GroundUp

New shelter for hundreds of homeless people opens in Green Point

Matthew Hirsch 30 Jul 2024

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Unesco inscribes more World Heritage sites for South Africa

29 Jul 2024

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