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 | SA philanthropist and founder of 67 Blankets Carolyn Steyn has been awarded the highest French order of merit... read |
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 | | The Entrepreneurship to the Point aims to equip SMEs with the necessary skills needed for them to thrive in their respective business disciplines...read |
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 | With a firm focus on sustainability, Cipla South Africa is implementing innovative measures to reduce its carbon footprint... Read |
 | LIEZL HUMAN Critical services for the elderly and victims of sexual assault will soon be halted if NPOs do not receive their subsidies from the North West Department of Social Development (DSD). Read |
| CSI & Sustainability |
 | ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM The term 'persona' is attributed to Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung, referring to an individual's 'social facade' or 'face presented to the world which reflects the role in life that the individual is playing and makes a definite impression upon others'... Read |
| Climate Change |
 | LAURIE GOERING As fossil fuel emissions continue to rise, renewed efforts to slash them must be fair and take into account countries' other key priorities... Read |
 | H. DAMON MATTHEWS, AMY LUERS AND KIRSTEN ZICKFELD Planting trees and preventing deforestation can store carbon in nature, but the effect may only be temporary. If we also eliminate emissions from fossil fuels, even this temporary effect is important. Read |
 | Innovative ideas to solve climate change were the currency of a virtual hackathon held by Silicon Cape last month... Read |
| Education & Skills Development |
 | WaterBear Network has partnered with New York Festivals to create an exclusive new award... Read |
| Food, Water & Energy Security |
 | Ekurhuleni Municipality has approved the connection of a large solar PV plant and battery system at PepsiCo sub-Saharan Africa's Gauteng distribution centre... Read |
 | JOSEPH CHIRUME Water supply in Nelson Mandela Bay Metro is being sabotaged, according to the municipality... Read |
 | ANDY DU PLESSIS, ISSUED BY FOOD FORWARD SA A preventable scourge with improved farm to fork surplus food recovery interventions... Read |
| Green Economy |
 | South Africa has launched its first national green finance taxonomy to assist the financial sector response to climate change and support sustainable development... Read |
| Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice |
 | ISSUED BY TRIALOGUE The World Economic Forum says human rights should find a permanent place in the boardroom, but companies often fail to make this key risk a priority... Read |
 | Ecuador's Banco Pichinca has issued its first gender bond, in which IFC, a member of the World Bank, has invested US$50m... Read |
 | ISSUED BY ONPOINT PR Citizen-led global advocacy group calls on governments, corporations and citizens to break the cycle of extreme poverty now... Read |
| Investment & Philanthropy |
 | NOMSA MBERE A recent analysis of ESG reports by nine mining companies highlighted strengths and weaknesses in how they are tackling these objectives... Read |
| NGO, NPO & Social Enterprise |
 | Amazon has opened a new humanitarian aid hub in Slovakia to help relief organisations provide faster support to Ukrainian refugees... Read |
 | IVAN SWARTZ Over the past two years we have seen a significant shift in the SA social impact space towards greater collaboration and partnerships... Read |
 | KERI-LEIGH PASCHAL South Africa has lived with Covid-19 and its many implications for two years now. During the height of the pandemic, the fault lines in our social fabric were exposed like never before, and the challenges experienced by the social impact sector were huge... Read |
 | ISSUED BY MANGO-OMC Steps Clubfoot Care is a non-profit organisation that focuses on facilitating access to clubfoot treatment for South African children. They are also a My School beneficiary, a loyalty programme through the Woolworths brand... Read |
| Pollution & Waste Management |
 | THULA ZONDI, ISSUED BY GREENCAPE The Digital Global Bigas Cooperation (DiBiCoo) has launched a new digital matchmaking platform, an online portal connecting countries that import and export biogas and biomethane technologies... Read |
 | JOSHUA AMPONSEM Plastic waste in Africa is not just an urban issue, but also a rural one, writes Joshua Amponsem, the founder of the Green Africa Youth Organisation and Afri-Plastics Challenge judge... Read |
 | THAMSANQA MBOVANE Two women from Kariega have transformed vacant land littered in piles of rubbish into a neat netball field for young girls from the community... Read |
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 | NAFISA ELTAHIR AND MOHAMED NURELDIN ABDALLAH Millions more Sudanese are set to go hungry this year as economic turmoil and erratic rains drive up prices and reduce harvests... Read |
 | Family Planning 2030 hub, to be hosted in Kenya by Amref Health Africa, will accelerate interventions and policies in East and Southern Africa that ensure women and girls in the region have access to sexual and reproductive healthcare, services and commodities... Read |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH Netflix's success in producing local content has led to the production of the third season of Blood & Water... Read |
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 | RYAN MCFADYEN Daily media consumption by consumers is growing. Layer that with technology, trends, changing audiences and heightened competition, the share of audience attention becomes more and more difficult to capture... Read |
 | Finally, after 750 days of South Africa being under lockdown, the National State of Disaster has been lifted... Read |
 | Finance minister Enoch Godongwana on Thursday, 31 March, announced a cut in fuel prices to help ease pressure on consumers hit with sharply rising energy costs... Read |
 | Arrie Rautenbach has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Absa Group with immediate effect... Read |
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