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In 2025, KFC Add Hope open-sourced its entire child-feeding blueprint and invited Gen Z innovators to improve it. Image supplied.

How SA's young innovators help KFC Add Hope feed more children

15 May 2026

Eskom’s current and only nuclear power station located at Koeberg, Western Cape. Archive photo: Brent Meersman

Public gets three more weeks to comment on Eskom nuclear site — but critics say it’s not enough

John Yeld 11 May 2026

A major step for food security in SA: The SABS food donation standard is published

A major step for food security in SA: The SABS food donation standard is published

Andy Du Plessis, FoodForward SA 11 May 2026

The CSIR’s 2024 power generation statistics found that the power Eskom sells to South Africans is more than three times as expensive, on average, as what new wind and solar can deliver (R1.95 per kWh vs 50-60 cents per kWh). Above: Eskom’s Lethabo power station in the Free State. Photo: Simisa Bearbeitung (Auschnitt, Farben): Pechristener via

The Israel/US-Iran war is hitting South Africa hard – our oil dependency is why

Jo-Anne Smetherham and Yanga Malotana 8 May 2026

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Is a data-centre boom pushing Cape Town’s grid to breaking point?

5 May 2026

Food Lover’s Market targets 10 million meals in May Hunger Month

Food Lover’s Market targets 10 million meals in May Hunger Month

5 May 2026

The real strategy behind commercial water savings

The real strategy behind commercial water savings

Zea Gove, Propelair SA 5 May 2026

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Ventersdorp water-shortage crisis deepens as demand outstrips supply

4 May 2026

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From decline to delivery: Rethinking South Africa’s infrastructure model

24 Apr 2026

A drone view shows the Sasol petrochemical refinery in Sasolburg, southwest of Johannesburg. Image credit: Reuters/Thando Hlophe/File Photo

Sasol targets major EU market shift with sustainable jet fuel

Wendell Roelf 23 Apr 2026

Engie's joint project with Pele Green Energy, the Graspan Solar PV plant in the Northern Cape, and its Grootspruit Solar PV plant in the Free State, add a combined 150MW of clean generation to the South African electricity grid. Image supplied.

Engie and Pele’s solar project electrifies South Africa

23 Apr 2026

Source: South African Government News Agency.

Lesotho's Senqu Bridge launch: The solution to Gauteng's water security crisis?

23 Apr 2026

Source: Reuters.

South African inflation picks up to 3.1% y/y in March, as expected

Sfundo Parakozov 22 Apr 2026

SAB spotlights South African women restoring water systems through invasive species clearing in the Western Cape

SAB spotlights South African women restoring water systems through invasive species clearing in the Western Cape

SAB 22 Apr 2026

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