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| |  | ISSUED BY CIPLA The Cipla Foundation deployed a fully functioning medical facility within just two days at Strandfontein Sports Ground - a site housing most of Cape Town's homeless during the Covid-19 lockdown... Read |
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| Climate Change |
 | JESSICA TENNANT Susan Goldberg, editor in chief of National Geographic magazine, tell us more about this special Earth Day issue and provides a global perspective on the impact of the pandemic on the publishing industry and the magazine specifically, and how they're responding... Read |
| Food, Water & Energy Security |
 | STEVE KRETZMANN AND RAYMOND JOSEPH How big business ignored the water restrictions and got away with it... Read |
 | SINDY PETERS Karl Muller, operations manager at Tiger Brands Foundation, shares his experience of the current Covid-19 crisis and how his organisation is navigating these unusual times... Read |
 | JOHN YELD Appeals against plans for a huge new wind farm on the West Coast have been dismissed by Environment Minister Barbara Creecy, paving the way for the addition of up to 140MW of renewable energy into the national grid... Read |
| Health & Welfare |
 | The Employment and Labour Department has referred the public wishing to collect their R350 social grant to the Social Development Department... Read |
 | In response to a significant spike in reported cases of gender-based violence in South Africa during the national lockdown period, Carling Black Label has launched its #NoExcuse initiative... Read |
 | SINDY PETERS Sizwe Nzima, founder of Iyeza Health, shares his experience of the current Covid-19 crisis and how his organisation is navigating these unusual times... Read |
| Infrastructure, Innovation & Technology |
 | Developed by Growthpoint Properties, the Exxaro head office in Centurion is the first building in South Africa to achieve Silver Level WELL certification for Core and Shell by the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI)... Read |
 | BRETT CHRYSTAL The Covid-19 lockdown has offered us an unexpected opportunity to reflect on our relationship with the planet, and the insurmountable evidence of climate change and its impact on our everyday life... Read |
| Investment & Philanthropy |
 | The Shoprite Group has thanked its customers for reaching the R1m mark in funds raised for the Solidarity Fund, and matched customer contributions with another R1m... Read |
| NGO, NPO & Social Enterprise |
 | SINDY PETERS Professor Elain Vlok, Clover manager of the Clover Mama Afrika Trust, shares her experience of the current Covid-19 crisis and how her organisation is navigating these unusual times... Read |
 | SINDY PETERS Sofia Neves, managing director at Salesian Life Choices, shares her experience of the current Covid-19 crisis and how her organisation is navigating these unusual times... Read |
 | FoodForward SA, through its partnership with the Solidarity Fund, successfully delivered 86,500 food parcels to vulnerable households experiencing severe food insecurity... Read |
 | SINDY PETERS Duncan Luke, CEO of The Social Collective, shares his experience of the current Covid-19 crisis and how his organisation is navigating these unusual times... Read |
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 | RODRIGO OLIVARES-CAMINAL Africa is home to 41 of the International Monetary Fund's 59 Low Income Countries. These are more structurally vulnerable to external shocks such as Covid-19... Read |
 | DANNY BRADLOW Once again, African countries are confronting overwhelming debt burdens. According to the most recent World Bank debt statistics, they owe a total of $493.6bn in long term debt to their foreign official and commercial creditors. About one third, $117bn, is in the form of tradeable bonds... Read |
 | The global digital evolution has just been put into overdrive by Covid-19 as locked-down nations are forced to accelerate the shift online, driving a massive spike in data needs... Read |
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 | NICCI BOTHA While people can handle change, uncertainty can seriously drive up stress and anxiety levels, especially around the world of work... Read |
 | NICCI BOTHA There are many parallels between Covid-19 and HIV/Aids. There are both highly infectious novel viruses that have which reached pandemic proportions very quickly, and, at this point, there is no vaccine against either of them... Read |
 | Female entrepreneurs are being called to join the Top Tech Tools for Women in Business programme for 2020... Read |
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