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Relying on imports to feed the nation
[Sindy Peters] The ongoing El NiƱo has resulted in far below-average rainfall and very high temperatures in Southern Africa, adversely affecting agriculture in the region... read


CSI & Sustainability
Experts believe assessment process of MGDs was unjust

Jaspreet Kindra and Juliet Wasswa-Mugambwa

In just two decades, primary school enrolment in two of the world's poorest countries - Niger and Burkina Faso - increased from 20% to more than 60%... read
The Rainbow Nation brand concept constricts social responsibility engagement

JJ van Niekerk, Issued by Forever Friday

Corporate social investment has become a strange, expensive and non-influential exercise to many companies and SMMEs and now seems to hit confusion after analysing the impact in our "Rainbow Nation"... read
Circular Economy
Entrepreneurs will be key custodians in transition to a circular economy

Hermann Erdmann

Every year, the World Economic Forum (WEF) brings together the world's business, economic and political leaders in Davos to discuss the challenges and future of the world economy. The theme for this year was Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution... read
Inclusion & Equality
Black Industrialists Programme pushing for inclusivity
The Black Industrialists Programme is set on generating more black industrialists as well as to create greater inclusivity in the economy, says Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies... read
Infrastructure and Technology
Imagining and constructing healthier buildings
The focus at this year's Green Building Conference will be on leap-frogging straight to the lasted thinking, innovations, and technologies, enabling built environment designers to imagine and construct higher performing healthier buildings now and into the future... read
Pollution & Waste Management
First refuse derived fuel plant in SA launched
Interwaste has recently announced the launch of South Africa's very first refuse derived fuel (RDF) plant... read
International
Chinese market electrifying for 'green' cars
Government subsidies are fuelling a boom in electric vehicles in China, driving hopes for the industry's global future as the world's biggest car market offers economies... read
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Business
Revealed: the big CFO miscalculation

Auguste Coetzer

Chief financial officers are not generally known for making miscalculations, but they are currently in danger of making a big one... with huge ramifications for their future prospects... read
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