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PnP promotes sustainable transformation with community food garden
While community food gardens can address food security, they also create opportunities for people to take ownership of improving their own long-term health and wellbeing... read more>>

Radiothon raises millions for Cape fire fighters

To support the efforts of the hundreds of volunteers who have been battling the raging fires across the Cape Peninsula since Sunday, KFM and CapeTalk launched a radiothon yesterday, 5 March 2015.

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Why focusing on matric results isn't the solution to SA's education woes

Christina Watson

When interventions made to raise the levels of mathematics skills and knowledge among South African learners fail to bear fruit, it's understandable that many are quick to feel that we are in a state of crisis...

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Better SA launched: the Uber of the volunteer world
This week saw the official launch of Better SA, the country's first hop-on, hop-off volunteer bus service enabling people who want to volunteer to do so in the easiest way possible... read more>>
Education & Training
Varsity College gives volunteers lesson in love
A Port Elizabeth college gave two Bay charity volunteers the chance to go back to the classroom last week when it presented study bursaries to Heatherbank Primary School and Love Story at its NGO Open Day... read more>>
Tsogo Sun's school programmes impact children's lives
The Tsogo Sun CSI flagship school programmes are impacting thousands of children's lives every year... read more>>
More students with disabilities in higher education
The Department of Higher Education and Training says it is making headway in increasing the number of students with disabilities in the post-education and training system... read more>>
Breadline Africa launches Lukhanyiso Preschool
World NGO Day signifies an opportunity where NGOs celebrate their achievements while ensuring that small grassroots organisations gain the recognition they deserve - and Zodwa Plaatjie who owns and runs an early childhood development centre for up to 60 children in Motherwell near Port Elizabeth, is one to be praised... read more>>
Oxford University Press Southern Africa turns its 100th page
In line with its commitment to education in Africa and celebrating its centenary this year, Oxford University Press Southern Africa has announced its sponsorship of the 9th Pan-African Literacy for All and 10th Reading Association of South Africa (RASA) National Literacy Conference to be held in September... read more>>
Greening & Environment
Earth Hour 2015 coming soon
Earth Hour, which was launched by WWF in 2007, is observed annually on the last Saturday of March each year between 8:30pm and 9:30pm local time in over 160 countries and over 7,000 cities by hundreds of millions of people... read more>>
SRK assists Western Cape schools to use groundwater
The Cape Town office of engineering consultants, SRK Consulting, has been involved in a provincial Department of Transport and Public Works programme to supply and monitor usage of groundwater for new and upgraded schools in the Western Cape... read more>>
Festival aims to create awareness of water scarcity
The Watershed Festival hopes to restore the public's appreciation of clean and accessible drinking water, reminding them of its worth, scarcity and the absence of a substitute... read more>>
Cape businesses support firefighters
As fires continued to rage in the southern Cape Peninsula last week, Cape Town companies supported the volunteer firefighter services... read more>>
Sport
CANSA at the 2015 Absa Cape Epic Mountain Bike Race

Issued by CANSA

The Absa Cape Epic is taking place from 15 to 22 March, with seven teams riding in support of the Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA), an official charity for the event... read more>>
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