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 | According to CSI consultancy Trialogue, South African companies spent an estimated R10.7bn on corporate social investment (CSI) in the 2020 financial year... read |
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 | ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM Bizcommunity, in partnership with South Africa's leading business trend consultants Flux Trends, invites you to join BizTrends2021 - Towards New North and New Narratives on Thursday, 28 January 2021... Read |
| Education & Skills Development |
 | Disadvantaged schools across nine South African provinces have received access to literacy and learning with the opening of nine digital libraries, courtesy of a partnership between The Snapplify Foundation, iSchoolAfrica and award-winning mountaineer Saray Khumalo... Read |
 | SIMONE MOOLMAN, ISSUED BY CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE With a plethora of corruption charges and disregard for the country's poorest, are we building the right kind of leaders in Africa and how do we teach our children to be better than the examples presented to them?... Read |
| Environment & Natural Resources |
 | Cabinet has approved the updated National Protected Areas Expansion Strategy and the revised National Biodiversity Framework in an effort to assist in addressing threats to biodiversity... Read |
 | Thirteen youth-led projects are set to benefit from the Driving Force for Change initiative, intended for projects that tackle issues of climate change, waste management and biodiversity loss... Read |
| Food, Water & Energy Security |
 | ECKART ZOLLNER Energy production and usage accounts for nearly three-quarters of global emission, therefore attaining net-zero emissions requires urgent change and innovation across multiple industries. Read |
| Green Economy |
 | ISSUED BY SAPPI Globally accredited sustainability ratings provider EcoVadis has scored Sappi Southern Africa Platinum Medal status in its assessment of how well the company has integrated sustainability principles into its business and management system... Read |
 | ISSUED BY GREENCAPE Tine Fisker-Henriksen, the Innovative Finance Lead for Bertha Centre for Social Innovation, Graduate School of Business, and a member of the Green Outcomes Fund Advisory Committee, shares details of the Green Outcomes Fund, what is means to be a green business and how green SMMEs can apply for funding... Read |
| Health & Welfare |
 | The South African alcohol industry has stepped up its efforts to assist in curbing the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in recently identified hot spots in the Eastern Cape province... Read |
 | Anant Singh has produced a gender-based violence awareness film to highlight the call for people to act against this scourge in our society... Read |
 | Take This Thread is a movement aimed at helping break the pattern of abuse by focusing on helping survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) achieve financial independence... Read |
| Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice |
 | While the country has made some strides on the diversity and inclusion front, a lot of progress still needs to be made, particularly when it comes to disabled South Africans... Read |
| NGO, NPO & Social Enterprise |
 | Local NGO Activate! Change Drivers has published an ebook, The Activate! Network responds to Covid-19 - We are who we've been waiting for... Read |
 | Uber has partnered with Rainn, and Nisaa Institute for Women's Development, to raise awareness of gender, power dynamics, and sexual harassment among driver-partners and riders by launching safety education videos. This will be mandatory for driver-partners. Read |
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 | RONGEDZAYI FAMBASAYI While the African Union's legal and policy framework does refer - patchily - to the rights, interests and plight of girls; continental bodies and national governments can and should do more... Read |
 | Realness Institute's Episodic Lab will be looking for screenwriters from Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa with authentic and original stories of all genres... Read |
 | The local winners of the Seedstars World Competition (SSW) 2020 have been announced with 25 startups from Africa included in the batch... Read |
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 | The number of new shoppers introduced to e-commerce over lockdown boosted Black Friday weekend total online transaction volumes by 50%, compared to 2019... Read |
 | DAVID TAYLOR There's some great news for motorists as we go into the final month of 2020. The price of petrol will be coming down... Read |
 | People who loosen their purse strings during the upcoming holiday season and buy local instead of imported products could help improve South Africa's economic outlook... Read |
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