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 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG The Covid-19 lockdown has stalled South Africa's dynamic beauty services industry. Due to the high-touch nature of the job, it may be a while until beauty practitioners are able to safely resume trade... read |
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| |  | ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM Terry Levin, creative director at Bizcommunity, shares her views of the current Covid-19 crisis and how the company is navigating these unusual times... Read |  | ISSUED BY WILLOWTON GROUP KZN-based Muslim businessmen, professionals, donors and other humanitarians have joined together to create Muslims For Humanity, an initiative that will support and assist NGOs to reach as many needy people as possible... Read |  | NICK ROCKEY AND CATHY DUFF, ISSUED BY TRIALOGUE Over the past few weeks, we have seen big business stepping up to mitigate the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic... Read |
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| Environment & Natural Resources |
 | DR DUNCAN MACFADYEN Regarding wildlife conservation, we have experienced revenue streams and resources, worth years of ongoing research, development and contribution, dry up in a matter of weeks... Read |
| Food, Water & Energy Security |
 | Eskom has been ordered by the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF) to stop operations at Unit 1 or 5 of the Kendal power plant, in Mpumalanga, within 30 days because of dangerously high levels of emissions.... Read |
| Health & Welfare |
 | ANTÓNIO GUTERRES As Covid-19 spreads across the continent, Africa has responded swiftly to the pandemic and, as of now, reported cases are lower than feared... Read |
| Inclusion, Equity & Social Justice |
 | Shack dwellers and homeless people who have erected a tent in Observatory, Cape Town, have obtained an urgent interim interdict that prevents the City from evicting them. The tent, home now to dozens of people, has been erected on the lawn in front of a vacated old age home, Arcadia House, owned by Cape Peninsula Organisation for the Aged (CPOA)... Read |
| NGO, NPO & Social Enterprise |
 | SINDY PETERS Melanie Burke, chairman of StreetSmart South Africa, shares her lockdown lessons and how StreetSmart is navigating the lockdown in stages by keeping hope alive and preparing for the new normal... Read |
 | As purpose-driven entrepreneurship trends upward, serial entrepreneur Patricia Nzolantima believes this will positively impact the future of consumerism and how organisations operate in the long term... Read |
 | TANIA BROUGHTON The Free State High Court has ordered the provincial government to pay non-profit organisations caring for children, the frail and elderly, more than R120m in outstanding subsidies... Read |
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 | DR MAMPHELA RAMPHELE On this Africa Day 2020, we celebrate our resilience in the face of the disruptive Covid-19 pandemic... Read |
 | Innovate Now, Africa's Assistive Technology Accelerator, is seeking applications from innovators across the African continent who are dedicated to developing mobile-based technologies designed to assist people living with disabilities... Read |
 | CLEMENT CHINAKA The World Economic Forum (WEF) reported this week that the pandemic has hit global trade and investment at an "unprecedented speed and scale" and revealed the fragility of the modern supply chain... Read |
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 | MOHAMED MAJAPA How many times have you heard "I can't wait for things to get back to normal" in the past few weeks? Read |
 | The Yoco Small Business Recovery Monitor shows trading within the Small Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMME) sector across South Africa has now returned to 44% of pre-Covid-19 lockdown levels... Read |
 | VUKANI MNGXATI Just weeks after winding down their operations, companies are being asked to restart their engines at an unprecedented rate as lockdown rules are gradually relaxed... Read |
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