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Siya Kolisi, John Smit, Jean de Villiers, Corné Krige, Bryan Habana and Percy Montgomery recently took up the South African Rugby Legends Association's #Rugbyunites charity challenge by distributing bags of food that were shopped and packed by themselves at SuperSpar Rosmead in Cape Town. The bags were distributed to three charities including Stepping Stones Sport, Unchain the Plain and Safe House Stellenbosch.

Puma South Africa recently opened a new retail store in Cresta Shopping Centre, Johannesburg, Gauteng. This is the footwear and apparel company's seventh store to open in Gauteng and will allow shoppers to shop footwear, apparel and accessories as well as running, training, football and performance gear.

It took 61 volunteers, 376 hours, 100 social entrepreneur stations feeding more than 67,000 meals, plus bags of warmth to make Mandela Day a huge success for ChangeMakersHub.

The Mhondoro Safari Lodge & Villa in Limpopo has successfully opened an organic food production at its Platbank farm near the Welgevonden Game Reserve. The farm produces a wide variety of vegetables that include spinach, beetroot, pumpkins, carrots, tomatoes, peppers, and onions, as well as herbs and salad greens, while the farming of free-range chickens produces free-range eggs in abundance. With the closure of the lodge due to the coronavirus lockdown regulations, all the farm's produce is being donated to the local community, including to the Bushveld Mission Children's Home outside Vaalwater, which provides shelter to 60 orphaned, abandoned, abused and starving children the aged from newborn to 18 years old and is staffed by 15 volunteers....

Get Lucky Streaming ft Biggy took place in Goodluck's ultra-modern Cape Town studio, dubbed GoodLuck HQ, on Saturday 27 June.

The GMA benefit concert by Tracker and Jacaranda FM saw some of SA's top live acts, Prime Circle, Demi Lee Moore, DJ Jazzy D, Martin Bester and Refentse perform on the 27 June.

The Cape Town Carnival, the annual street parade which normally occurs in March, held it's first large online event, it's Celebration Ceremony, which attracted over 60 people including national, provincial and local government officials, media, corporate representatives, and some of the participants.

GoodLuck launched their six-part concert series, Get Lucky Streaming, from their Cape Town studio, dubbed GoodLuck HQ, on Saturday, 6 June 2020.

A number of SA's DJs inclusing, DJ Fresh, Ayanda MVP, Euphonik, Chunda Munki, Dimplez and others performed live sets on a Sandton helicopter pad as part of the exciting line up for Helivation on the 7 June 2020.

DHL Stormers players Siya Kolisi, Steven Kitshoff, Scarra Ntubeni, Damian Willemse, Dillyn Leyds, Nama Xaba, Kwenzo Blose, and Chris van Zyl visited the Neighbourhood Old Age Home (NOAH) in Woodstock, Cape Town on 4 June to unpack 1,354kgs of food that was delivered by Pick n Pay's Feed the Nation campaign. Pick n Pay and the DHL Stormers have partnered to help create awareness and raise funds for Pick n Pay's Feed the Nation campaign, which is supporting hundreds of vulnerable communities in lockdown. Each Stormers player has personally donated and collectively they've donated over R50,000 towards Feed the Nation, which to date has raised R52.2m....

Pick n Pay has given food hampers to vulnerable schoolchildren during the lockdown as part of its Feed the Nation campaign. A total of 15,316 hampers have been donated that equates to 1.7 million meals. The hampers included fresh vegetables, rice, maize meal, baked beans, oil, pilchards, sugar beans and milk powder. One-hundred-and-two schools across eight provinces have been assisted to date. The schoolchildren are identified through the retailer's Pick n Pay School Club....

A South African National Parks (SANParks) initiative led by SANParks CEO Fundisile Mketeni distributed food parcels and water tanks to vulnerable communities bordering Marakele National Park in Limpopo.