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From GuguByGugu to FoodForward SA: Meet the 2026 Eco-Logic Award finalists

14 hours

Source: Supplied. Jennifer Erasmus, Trellidor’s new chief financial officer and executive director, effective 1 July 2026.

#WomensMonth | What happens when safer spaces become a business’s most powerful legacy? Jennifer Erasmus explains.

Katja Hamilton 15 hours

“Sustainability starts with a genuine commitment to want to achieve meaningful impact,” says Empact’s group sustainability executive Lara Barlow. Image supplied.

Empowering people to prosper: Inside Empact’s first sustainability report

Maroefah Smith 2 days

Source: Supplied. Shameer Chothia is the principal consultant at Momentum Consultants and Actuaries.

Beyond tax-free pensions: Rethinking retirement income in South Africa

Shameer Chothia 4 Aug 2026

Social grant beneficiaries have until 31 August to switch from the Sassa Gold Card to the Postbank Black Card. Archive photo: supplied

Sassa Gold Card: 280,000 people still need to switch

Marecia Damons 30 Jul 2026

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Sassa announces August payment delay for beneficiaries under review

29 Jul 2026

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Africa to weather billion-dollar storm as “super” El Niño approaches

Simon Jessop and Marc Jones 27 Jul 2026

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From WhatsApp to queues and 350k reviews: Sassa to save R1.5bn

22 Jul 2026

A Sudanese refugee girl displaced by clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese army at the Tine transit camp in eastern Chad. Image credit: Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh/File Photo

El Niño, Strait of Hormuz deadlock threaten strides made to end global hunger

Giselda Vagnoni and Oriana Boselli 21 Jul 2026

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4 Sassa officials fired following R33m social grants fraud scheme

17 Jul 2026

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