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UN adopts 17 Global Goals
The 193 UN member states have adopted the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and 17 Global Goals, designed to put the world on a pathway to sustainability... read


CSI & Sustainability
Indaba to explore green opportunities for the youth
The annual Green Youth Indaba, hosted by the Energy and Water SETA, Fibre Processing & Manufacturing SETA and Tosaca Media Group, will take place on 30 September at the Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria... read
Education & Training
Solar-powered IT lab delivered to Eastern Cape school
Proper education opportunities for primary school learners in rural and poverty stricken areas can become a reality with the help of solar-powered IT labs designed by South African social enterprise, giveITback... read
Sustainable development goals are in reach if African universities work together

Wim de Villiers

By 2030, if the United Nations has its way, poverty will be history. Nobody will wake up or go to bed hungry. Cities and communities will be sustainable. Quality education will be a reality for all... read
Community Chest hosts Thales Science Quest 2015
According to a World Economic Forum report the quality of South Africa's maths and science education places it last out of 148 countries... read
Environment & Natural Resources
WWF SA launches community-based approach for wildlife conservation
In the urgent race to combat poaching rates and build sustainable rhino populations, working with communities on the front line - those who live close to rhinos - has been identified as an essential, yet often underestimated, component in tackling the challenge... read
Sony launches Picture This environmental campaign
Gender Equality
Diversity and empowerment of women in spotlight
Diversity and the empowerment of women in business was the focus of a breakfast event which was recently hosted by the Gauteng Women in Insurance (GWII), supported by AIG South Africa and Willis... read
Health & Welfare
Afrika Tikkun launches Paint it Purple Campaign
For a few months now, a group of parents in Orange Farm near Johannesburg have been working together in the society to strive for peace - using murals to build bridges of understanding in their community, with remarkable results... read
New development goals on health need more work to be realistic

Erica Penfold

The next chapter of the global development agenda - the sustainable development goals - will shift the global focus and debate around health systems... read
Infrastructure and Technology
NMMU academics win award at sustainability conference
A paper on the development of one of South Africa's most unique off-grid homes received the Chair's Award at the recent Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) international conference at Leeds Beckett University in the UK... read
Pollution & Waste Management
Japanese expert cautions SA on nuclear waste

Dane McDonald

A Japanese nuclear energy expert on Tuesday, 22 September, cautioned South African decision makers to think carefully about nuclear waste before committing to its nuclear build programme... read
Business
Technocalamity and Africa

Naseem Javed

"...When the tsunami of free technologies makes organisations look increasingly outdated, the same tsunamis can quadruple exports, innovative excellence and catapult into image supremacy... this makes technocalamity a new global age phenomena..." - Mentorian. read
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