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Climate Change
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MARTA OLAZABAL
In 2006, pioneering cities such as London and Durban started integrating climate change in their policies and plans... Read
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Municipalities across South Africa can now assess climate risks and growth pressures using an online climate risk profiling and adaptation tool that was recently launched... Read
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CECILIA ROSEN
The selection of seed varieties adapted to a particular climate could be refined if farmers themselves assess their performance, using their plots as small, experimental laboratories... Read
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Education & Training
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The French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian recently visited Saint-Gobain South Africa's premises in Germiston where the company showcased its skills development programme... Read
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Bolekwa Salusalu has no hands, but she sews every single day. The 62-year-old is a designer and creator of immaculately stitched wedding dresses, traditional outfits, and school uniforms... View
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Food, Water & Energy Security
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The wind turbine tower sections for the 140MW Kangnas Wind Farm are being manufactured at Atlantis om Cape Town's West Coast... Read
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Green Economy
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South Africans must look at waste from an economic perspective as the green economy of the waste sector has the potential to create jobs and empower small, medium and micro-sized enterprises... Read
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Health & Welfare
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ISSUED BY ADOPT-A-SCHOOL
The Adopt-a-School Foundation together with Premier Optical will be visiting Mosaledi Primary School and Sengana Primary School in Hammanskraal to dispense spectacles to 58 deserving learners as part of its social welfare drive of this School Health Week... Read
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Inclusion, Equity & Human Rights
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LEIGH ANDREWS
International Women's Day was celebrated on Friday, 8 March with the 2019 campaign theme of #BalanceforBetter. With reports that the global gender pay gap is actually widening despite increased awareness of the issue, we need to go beyond giving working women flowers and cupcakes in recognition of their contributions on the day... Read
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Globally, women representation in national parliaments increased by nearly one percentage point last year, from 23.4% in 2017 to 24.3%... Read
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Travelport has launched a global campaign to improve awareness and use of the DPNA Special Service Request code... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
YPO hosted the world's largest gathering of CEOs right here in Cape Town on 6 and 7 March 2019, for its Global Leadership Conference and YPO Edge, with the theme, 'Life of Re'. Here's how the C-Suite in general and media creative specifically can take the theme to heart and make a difference through positive change in society beyond the bottom line... Read
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SEBASTIAN MORONELL
District Six claimants met on Sunday, 10 March, after the Department of Rural Affairs and Community Development failed to release a much-anticipated "holistic plan" for the restitution of the neighbourhood to its former owners... Read
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Infrastructure, Innovation & Technology
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ISSUED BY ECHO PRODUKSIES
From 1-5 April 2019, Seil-Safari will bring together world-class speakers, agricultural experts and South Africa's farming community to share knowledge and know-how on the latest innovations and solutions in the sector... Read
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SYLVIE ALBERT, JEREMY MILLARD, TOMAS DIEZ
The Fabrication City concept puts manufacturing back in the hands of communities - using 3D printers... Read
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Pollution & Waste Management
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CLAIRE GWINNETT
"Nurdles" may sound cute but they pose a huge risk to the marine environment. Also known as "mermaid tears", these small plastic pellets are a feedstock in the plastic industry... Read
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RP Global's Jumeme Rural Power Supply has begun construction of the first phase of its solar-hybrid mini-grid project in Tanzania which will see 11 new mini-grids constructed... Read
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The Cannabis Expo, a trade and consumer exhibition dedicated to the cannabis industry, is set be held at Sun Exhibits at GrandWest in Cape Town from 4 to 7 April... Read
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When it comes to feeling prosperous, mindset matters more than income, according to the results of Nielsen's new 2019 Changing Consumer Prosperity Report... Read
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