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#SB16CPT: World needs to check itself - Trevor Manuel
[Sindy Peters] Trevor Manuel delivered the opening keynote address at Sustainable Brands Cape Town... read


CSI & Sustainability
#SB16CPT: Sustainable Brands welcomes CT to the fold

Sindy Peters

KoAnn Skrzyniarz, founder and CEO of Sustainable Brands, set the scene for the conference that kicked off this past weekend. read
#FRO16: Online tracking and web analysis 101

Sindy Peters

I'll be the first to admit that my online analytics skills are sub-par - mention anything data-related and my brain switches to safe mode. Eva Hieninger's session at #FRO16, however, kept me, and I imagine many others, engaged... read
#FRO16: How to tap into fandoms

Sindy Peters

While we might traditionally only associate fandoms with Beliebers or Directioners, everybody is a fan of something. My dad won't be first in line (or last for that matter) to a J-Biebs concert, but he has pledged a life-long allegiance to Man U... read
MTN Group releases annual Sustainability Report
The MTN Group's annual Sustainability Report for 2015 details how MTN is delivering on its three sustainability focus areas... read
Climate Change
$500bn per year to adapt to climate change by 2050
According to UNEP's Adaptation Finance Gap Report, failure to cut emissions will dramatically increase the annual costs of adaptation... read
Education & Training
SA Taxi employees commit 25% of performance bonuses to community development projects
SA Taxi have voluntarily committed 25% of their performance bonuses to community development projects of their choosing... read
Environment & Natural Resources
Go green at the Green Home Fair 2016

Issued by Alive2Green

The City of Tshwane in partnership with Alive2Green will be hosting the Green Home Fair at Woodlands Boulevard Shopping Centre from 4-5 June as part of Sustainability Week 2016... read
Kwantu broadens scope of wildlife conservation initiatives
Kwantu Private Game Reserve's volunteer programme is drawing visitors from across the globe to participate in real life safari training. Proving popular with youth travellers... read
How tiger population growth offers hope for rhino

Shakir Jeeva

For the first time in 100 years the wild tiger population has risen. It's a success story viewed as a beacon of hope by South Africa's rhino conservationists in their fight to combat the wiping out of the species... read
Food Security
Food Security Seminar 2016 - changing the face of African agriculture

Issued by Alive2Green

Around 11 million South Africans are food insecure and it is estimated that a further 15 million in other Southern African countries (including Malawi, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana) also go to bed hungry... read
Health & Welfare
Woolworths and MySchool donate campaign proceeds
Woolworths and MySchool have recently celebrated the handover of a R400,000 donation, raised through their 2015 Christmas campaign, to the Children's Hospital Trust... read
Blue Label Telecoms partners Vodacom in uplifting unemployed
In helping Gauteng entrepreneurs develop their SIM card retail businesses, Blue Label Telecoms' The Prepaid Company division has provided them bicycles. read
Inclusion & Equality
Construction is everyone's world - Thobile Bhembe

Sindy Peters

Thobile Bhembe is the first and currently the only female site agent at Inyatsi Construction Group's subsidiaries across the sub-Saharan market... read
Africa's first private satellite - designed by schoolgirls

Mary Alexander

Africa is about to launch its first private satellite... read
#ThePowerOfChoice in choosing fair trade products
"What if you could fight climate change by simply drinking your morning coffee? Or give a farm worker's kid a better education by merely sipping your Chardonnay?" read
Infrastructure and Technology
Solar power plant launched in Kimberley
Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) has launched its second solar power plant at the Kimberley Airport, in the Northern Cape... read
Architecture as a response to social issues

Jamie Matroos

Alfredo Brillembourg's work addresses the housing crisis and poverty through architecture... read
Renewable energy going mainstream
Great strides have been made in stepping up power infrastructure maintenance in SA, says Eskom's senior general manager: engineering Willy Majola... read
Power producers' to contribute 7000MW
The contribution of independent power producers under the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Programme (REIPPP) is expected to grow to about 7,000MW... read
Construction to start on Kathu Solar Park
The Kathu Solar Park project has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Eskom... read
Public Health
Developing a community of health
A proposed community living centre (CLC), focusing on primary healthcare, could go a long way in reducing the high number of maternal deaths in Kenya... read
Business
Neuromarketing: From design studio to C-suite

Leigh Andrews

The 'silo mentality' is slowly but surely falling away in ad agencies - now that collaborative business mindset is spreading across all industries. Here's why your marketing strategy needs to follow suit and become a top-line conversation... read
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7th Annual Rural Development Conference 2016
MILLA SA - 24 May 2016 to 26 May 2016, Cape Town


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