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BIANCA LIMA-BOEKHOUD
South Africa has a strong and vibrant non-profit sector, yet non-profit organisations (NPOs) are not making quite as much of a dent in the many socioeconomic challenges facing our country as expected... read
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PAVITHRA RAO
The numbers are astronomical: to make one pair of jeans, it takes close to 8,000 litres of water - the amount a person drinks over seven years. Even a simple cotton shirt requires close to 3,000 litres of water... Read
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Education & Training
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ISSUED BY TRIALOGUE
Join more than 400 corporate, non-profit, government and academic delegates for a dynamic exchange of ideas on how to enhance responsible business efforts to create meaningful impact in development... Read
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KANYISA DIAMOND, ISSUED BY TRIALOGUE
The Old Mutual Education Flagship Project (OMEFP), launched in 2013, committed to investing R350m over seven years in under-resourced schools... Read
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Volkswagen Group South Africa (VWSA) is supporting the national Youth Employment Service (YES) programme by offering work opportunities to 520 unemployed youth... Read
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Environment & Natural Resources
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South Africa is making progress in the fight against rhino poaching with figures showing a steady decline for the fourth consecutive year... Read
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Green Economy
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Standard Bank has issued its first green bond, a 10-year facility with the express purposes of raising capital for use in on-lending by Standard Bank Group's (SBG) Sustainable Finance Business Unit... Read
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Inclusion, Equity and Social Justice
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ALISON GILLWALD
The commission's decision to force mobile operators to remove the 'poverty premium' on low-denomination, prepaid mobile bundles has been widely welcomed... Read
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Recently released research shows that 67 out of the 129 countries studied, and home to 2.1 billion girls and women, won't achieve any of the set gender equality targets... Read
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Investment & Philanthropy
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VINO GOVENDER
With enormous potential to better human lives, the dawn of the connected technological age has placed telecommunications companies at the foreground of advancement of society... Read
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NGO, NPO and Social Enterprise
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
Backyard shacks are part of the daily lives of many townships in South Africa... Read
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Pollution & Waste Management
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A new B2B initiative by H&M Group, called Treadler, allows external companies, including competitors, to access the group's global supply chain... Read
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Entries are now open for the 10th Orange Social Venture Prize (OSVP) in Africa and the Middle East... Read
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A newly launched report identifies African companies as market creating innovators... Read
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JØRGEN ARNESEN
During SONA 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced increased efforts to reduce the price of South Africa's pre-paid monthly data bundles... Read
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HOWARD FELDMAN
On first blush, there is ample reason to be miserable. The economic data recently released has once again confirmed that South Africa is in a recession... Read
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Forbes Woman Africa Awards 2020 winners were announced at the inaugural gala dinner held at Inkosi Albert Luthuli ICC Complex in Durban on Friday, 6 March 2020... Read
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Most businesses experience peaks and troughs; be it peak buying periods in the retail sector or greater demands on accounting firms during the tax season... Read
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Businesses in South Africa should consider whether the coronavirus outbreak may affect their commercial contracts and if so, which steps they can take to minimise their risk and exposure... Read
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