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 | | With the Covid-19 pandemic placing unprecedented demand on hospitals around the world, many are scrambling to provide sufficient ventilators, beds and staff to help those infected... read |
|  | RUTH COOPER Travel writer and earth advocate Dawn Jorgensen shares her #LockdownLessons and predictions on how travel will shift to a more authentic, climate-friendly and sustainable focus post Covid-19... read |
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 | Six Chinese fishing trawlers were detained and issued with fines in April, the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries announced late last week... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | Evalution Flooring, in partnership with Recycle 4 Africa Waste Management (R4AWM), has launched the first phase of its sustainability project with the aim of enabling zero waste in the luxury vinyl flooring arena... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | Total has acquired Tullow Oil's entire interests in Uganda Lake Albert development project including its East African Crude Oil Pipeline for an overall consideration of $575m... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | The South African Housing and Infrastructure Fund (SAHIF) has pledged to provide 50 temporary housing structures that will provide shelter for 200 South Africans... Read |
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 | HARSHANA KASSEEAH Mauritius is a small island nation located in the Indian Ocean. Like other countries, it faces drastic changes to its social and economic landscape with the appearance and spread of Covid-19... Read |
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 | LOICE ERAMBO In the wake of the spread of the Covid-19 global pandemic, the real estate and loan markets in Kenya are bound to be affected... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | ODETTE FALING Odette Faling, CEO at Travelcheck, shares the lessons learned when her 10-month-old online travel agency was hit hard by the Covid-19 travel bans around the world... Read |
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 | Not all business leaders are handling the workplace crises of Covid-19 as well as they should, with those who combine a war-like approach tempered with humanity and compassion proving the most effective, say their executive coaches in a recent study... Read |
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 | JUSTINE DAVIES On 2 April, Sierra Leone reported its second Covid-19 case. The government reacted quickly, the country was on lockdown for 72 hours and borders were closed... Read |
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 | DR COBUS OOSTHUIZEN While the Covid-19 pandemic threatens to sideline the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we are in fact more vulnerable now than ever... Read |
 | STEPHEN KENNEDY-GOOD AND AKHONA BOLOKO SA law requires that directors must exercise their powers in the best interests of the company, and with the degree of care, skill and diligence that may be reasonably expected of a person carrying out those functions. Directors can be held personally liable, and are now having to take tough decisions in the context of the pandemic... Read |
 | PayFast has seen a 226% year-on-year increase in new business account registrations in the food industry since Covid-19 restrictions were put in place... Read |
 | BIASE DE GREGORIO Covid-19 has provided an opportunity for society, business and government to embrace uncertainty. This global crisis will force us to solve highly complex problems in new and creative ways... Read |
 | No-one knows what the long-term economic effects of the Covid-19 epidemic will be... Read |
 | One of the concerns that frequently comes up when companies consider moving parts of their workforce home is how to maintain company culture when your people are physically dispersed... Read |
 | ARTHUR KAMP When measured relative to the size of our economy, South Africa's Covid-19 targeted economic programme is extensive, comparable to some of the largest pandemic-related interventions in other countries... Read |
 | Businesses and consumers must continue to be on the lookout for online fraud and phishing scams as fraudsters try to take advantage of Covid-19... Read |
 | Yoco has launched a suite of online payment solutions for merchants to sustain their cash flow during and beyond lockdown... Read |
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