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Petru Saal Gauteng residents were urged on Thursday, 1 February, not to jeopardise their own water supply by sending truckloads of donated water to the drought-stricken Western Cape...read |
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 | Tom Jackson South African startup Brownie Points is helping corporate businesses streamline their CSR processes by providing a digital platform that helps them design, run and measure impact initiatives... read |
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 | Bonani Madikizela Annually, on 2 February, the world over remembers the establishment of the Ramsar Convention which happened in 1971 - the same year that the Water Research Commission was established... read |
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 | Due to a decline in agricultural water usage, Day Zero has been pushed back to mid-May 2018. Agricultural usage is likely to drop significantly over the next weeks... read |
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 | Patrick Dowling Beyond the clamour around who's to blame, conflicting scenario descriptions of Day Zero and its predicted date, individual and community responses and helpful tips, the drought, now officially the worst on record without historical precedent, has done us all some good... read |
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 | After a delay of two years, Minister of Public Enterprises, Lynne Brown, has finally given Eskom the green light to sign the outstanding power purchase agreements (PPAs) with renewable power producers... read |
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 | Startupbootcamp (SBC) Cape Town and RCS Group are hosting a water-saving hackathon from 9-10 February 2018 to commission technology from the wider Cape community in a bid to #DefeatDayZero... read |
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 | Jatin Nathwani "Power to the people," the activists chanted in the 1960s. The revolutionaries of yesteryear never dreamed of the scientific and technological innovations that could light up distant shelters and communities in the darkest corners of Earth... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant During my adolescent years, an endless supply of sanitary pads 'magically' appeared in my toiletry cupboard. I had never thought of such things as luxury, but essential, oblivious to the reality that some school girls face... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Topics for inclusion, equality and diversity in the media sphere itself remained under the media spotlight this week as social media netizens celebrated Cosmopolitan South Africa's decision to place Laverne Cox on the cover, with their logo suitably rainbow-hued to show support of the LGBTQI+ community... read |
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 | Odette Parfitt The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality is planning to embark on an electricity generation project that will see selected consumers across the metro equipped with solar panels - at no cost to either party... read |
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 | Sean O'Toole The use of data to manage the world's growing housing crisis came into focus during the second day of the African Centre for Cities International Urban Conference at the University of Cape Town... read |
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 | NEWSWATCH: According to a tweet from organic compost producer Reliance Compost, Cape Town could see its green waste drop-off sites closed... read |
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 | While many developed countries operate within a regenerative system called a 'circular economy', South Africa only recycles 10% of its waste... read |
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 | The Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA) has invited all waste management industry bodies to submit their abstracts for WasteCon 2018... read |
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 | A world-renowned ivory investigator whose detailed reports contributed to the fight against elephant poaching and the illegal wildlife trade, was killed at his home in Kenya, police said on Monday, 5 February... read |
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 | Dickson Amugsi Rapid urbanisation and associated changes in people's lifestyle means Africa faces a growing obesity problem... read |
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 | Donor nations announced on Saturday, 3 February, $2.3bn in funding to support education in developing countries, following an international meeting in the Senegalese capital Dakar... read |
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 | Internet giant Amazon on Monday, 29 January, opened its plant-packed The Spheres buildings in its home city of Seattle... read |
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 | Xoliswa Hlongwane is about to take over as uShaka Marine World's chief financial officer (CFO). She shares her insights on working in the public sector... read |
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