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#BizTrends2025: Exploring key trends in the apple and pear industry

#BizTrends2025: Exploring key trends in the apple and pear industry

Roelf Pienaar 28 Jan 2025

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New nature reserve established in the Soutpansberg

27 Jan 2025

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Rhino poachers handed prison sentences

27 Jan 2025

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

Eliminate hidden fire risks with the Urban Fire Risk Index (UFRI) from GeoTerra Image

Eliminate hidden fire risks with the Urban Fire Risk Index (UFRI) from GeoTerra Image

GEOTERRA Image 24 Jan 2025

CIFFT, UN Tourism sign MoU to promote sustainable tourism advertising

CIFFT, UN Tourism sign MoU to promote sustainable tourism advertising

24 Jan 2025

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SA calls on US to reconsider withdrawal from Paris Agreement

24 Jan 2025

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)

Trump’s sudden suspension of foreign aid puts millions of lives in Africa at risk

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

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

21 Jan 2025

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

#BizTrends2025: Mainstreaming sustainability

Dr Manessah Alagbaoso 21 Jan 2025

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South Africa, GEF host international environmental action seminar

20 Jan 2025

Ashley du Plooy, Chief Executive Officer at ERA

#BizTrends2025: Why 2025 looks green for SA

Ashley du Plooy 20 Jan 2025

Unlock R10m in funding: Transform your business or community project with Lesaka

Unlock R10m in funding: Transform your business or community project with Lesaka

Lesaka 20 Jan 2025

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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

Source: G20 South Africa - @g20org

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

14 Nov 2024

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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