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 | ISSUED BY UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA In June, Dr Bianca Frost, a lecturer at the University of Pretoria, will take on the Comrades Marathon to support UP’s missing-middle students...read |
|  | | Pick n Pay is celebrating a major environmental milestone: its Reverse Vending Machines (RVM) customer recycling initiative has now diverted over 1.1 million plastic and packaging recyclable items from landfill...read |
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 | ISSUED BY TRIALOGUE Addressing the growing social development challenges in South Africa demands committed cross-sector collaboration in which corporate social investment (CSI) adopts a strategic rather than charitable intervention approach... Read |
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 | Fairvest ramps up retail assets with strategic acquisitions... Read |
 | OZZY NEL On World Environment Day, SA Harvest’s Ozzy Nel calls for food systems to lead the climate conversation — proving how logistics, innovation, and collaboration can deliver measurable environmental and social impact... Read |
| Circular Economy & Waste Management |
 | In line with the 2025 World Environment Day theme - #BeatPlasticPollution - Polyco has announced a new initiative that will see the removal, transport, and recycling of waste from South Africa’s research bases in Antarctica and Marion Island... Read |
 | H&M Group and WWF share the vision of a more sustainable future for people and nature... Read |
| Education & Skills Development |
 | ISSUED BY SAPPI The official opening of the Sappi Forestry Skills Centre in Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal recently, marked a major step in shaping a future of opportunity for those working in the industry... Read |
 | ISSUED BY CYRIL RAMAPHOSA FOUNDATION In the spirit of South Africa’s Child Protection Week 2025 and its theme, “Working Together to End Violence Against Children,” a powerful gathering took place in Botshabelo, Free State this week... Read |
 | ISSUED BY OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS The 1,000 beneficiaries of the 2025 Avbob Road to Literacy campaign, in collaboration with Oxford University Press South Africa (OUPSA) are announced... Read |
| Environment & Natural Resources |
 | NELSON BANYA AND ALESSANDRO PARODI Zimbabwe has issued permits to cull at least 50 elephants on a reserve where there are three times more elephants than the habitat can sustain, wildlife authorities have said... Read |
 | The Project Developer Forum (PD Forum) and carbon specialists are urging the UNFCCC Clean Development Mechanism’s (CDM) Board to examine the science behind the default Wood to Charcoal Conversion Factor (WCCF) and the charcoal emission factors used in carbon credit calculations... Read |
| Food, Water & Energy Security |
 | ANDY DU PLESSIS, ISSUED BY FOODFORWARD SA South Africa’s unemployment rate, currently at 32,9%, is among the highest in the world, and significantly higher than the global average... Read |
 | ISSUED BY LIBSTAR Libstar deepens commitment with winter crop planting for World Hunger Day... Read |
| Health & Social Welfare |
 | Social Development Minister Sisisi Tolashe has announced the finalisation of several critical appointments at the Department of Social Development (DSD) and its entities, marking a significant step in stabilising leadership within the sector... Read |
 | MARECIA DAMONS Meanwhile the Department of Social Development will ask for another extension of the Social Relief of Distress grant, MPs told... Read |
| Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice |
 | Applications open for grant funding and business development support... Read |
| Infrastructure, Innovation & Technology |
 | As the world celebrates World Environment Day on 5 June, one European fintech company has set out to answer what is essentially a million dollar question: "What is nature really worth?"... Read |
| NGO, NPO & Social Enterprise |
 | ISSUED BY OFM RADIO OFM, the sound of your life, and Round Table Southern Africa’s one-day fundraising drive, The Big Cover Up managed to raise R295,000 in much-needed winter aid for central South Africa... Read |
 | RAYMOND JOSEPH Non-profit organisation headed by Alfred Sigudhla received nearly R70m from the Lottery... Read |
 | As South Africa’s youth unemployment rate rises to a staggering 46.1%, rural nonprofit organisation Thanda is intensifying its efforts to create sustainable livelihoods for young people through agroecology... Read |
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