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| |  | ISSUED BY ROHI SOLUTIONS "As cliché as it may sound, do not wait to act on your plans. Do not procrastinate," these are the words of Nsika Nkosi who was crowned Mrs Gauteng 2020 in September 2019... Read |
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| CSI & Sustainability |
 | Honda Motor Southern Africa is donating high quality, reliable, mobile generators to support South African healthcare services during the Covid-19 pandemic. Read |
| Education & Skills Development |
 | IAN MANN, ISSUED BY SAICA Ian Mann, one of South Africa's most respected strategy and leadership consultants, shares his fact-based views on why the world is getting better... Read |
| Environment & Natural Resources |
 | DR DUNCAN MACFADYEN Like with many other industries, the world over, it has taken innovation, determination, and adaptability to continue business activities... Read |
 | NGO Elephants Alive will be using technology to live-screen the collaring of an elephant. This will include tracking the elephant in the Greater Kruger, its immobilisation, fitting the new collar and watching as the it comes round... Read |
 | AMY PIETERSE, ISSUED BY GINKGO AGENCY If we are to have a future, we need to reframe our relationship with the earth. This World Nature Conservation Day, it's time to tell a new story about humanity... Read |
| Food, Water & Energy Security |
 | DHESIGEN NAIDOO The 18th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture by UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres was sobering... Read |
 | Geospatial data company Fraym has launch its Localized Food Insecurity Index, a highly detailed targeting tool that maps populations vulnerable to food insecurity... Read |
| Health & Welfare |
 | "It's like a battlefield out here," says Prof Mignon McCulloch, a paediatrician on the frontline in the Red Cross Emergency Centre... Read |
 | The 2020 Nelson Mandela Prize has been awarded to Marianna Vardinoyannis of Greece, and Dr Morissanda Kouyaté of Guinea... Read |
| Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice |
 | Gutted, an online Greenpeace Africa documentary about the struggles of the Kalk Bay fishing community in Cape Town, has been selected for the Kaduna International Film Festival in Nigeria... Read |
 | C40 Cities has released its C40 Mayors Agenda for a Green and Just Recovery. The plan seeks to create a 'new normal', which will identify, contain and proactively prepare cities for future pandemics, while addressing systemic injustices and keeping global warming below the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement. Read |
 | JAMES STENT Work on the final phases of the District Six restitution project has begun. The national Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development is having the ground cleared and rubble removal as mandated by the courts... Read |
| Infrastructure, Innovation & Technology |
 | Having achieved six-star Green Star Public and Education Building (PEB) certification in May this year, Balwin Properties' Reid Lifestyle Centre is also targeting a Net-zero Carbon Level 2 rating... Read |
| Investment & Philanthropy |
 | The Tavern Relief Programme seeks to raise R100m to support 34,500 taverns over a two to three-month period by providing food parcels and other necessary supplies... Read |
 | 3M South Africa has partnered with United Way South Africa in implementing a $220,080 Covid-19 relief programme to provide nutritional food, fresh water, hygiene, and sanitisation products to vulnerable families... Read |
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 | Speaking at a recent Trialogue webinar, 'Supporting local government in the midst of a global pandemic', Paul Smith, Kagiso Trust's local government support head, recounted its ongoing work with the Makana municipality... Read |
 | Global fundraising platform for charities GivenGain has opened up access to all its premium fundraising features free of charge... Read |
| Pollution & Waste Management |
 | Over 75% of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) milk and juice bottles are recycled, according to recent research conducted by Polyco... Read |
 | FRANCOIS JOUBERT AND JULIA RUSHTON It is estimated that South Africa generates approximately 108 million tonnes of waste per year. As much as 90% of this waste (with an estimated value of more than R25.2 billion) is dumped or disposed of in landfill sites across the country, which are rapidly filling up and approaching closure... Read |
 | While detailed planning for new construction projects is fairly common, the same level of care is often not applied to the demolition phases, according to Kate Bester, contracts manager at Jet Demolition... Read |
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 | MILLS SOKO The remarkable economic transformation of Asia in recent decades has attracted global attention. It has ignited scholarly and policy debates about the region's development models and strategies... Read |
 | SAM KINYANJUI & SHARON FONN The Covid-19 pandemic has put global emergency preparedness under sharp scrutiny. It's also placed national health systems' capacity to predict and respond to major emergencies under the microscope... Read |
 | GRACE C WU & RANJIT DESHMUKH Seven years ago the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) proposed the Inga 3 - a 4.8GW hydropower project on the Congo River - with great fanfare... Read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Melun Jeptha noticed two empty plots of land that were being used as dumping grounds and decided to do something about it... Read |
 | A virtual business networking community has been launched to offer local businesses hard hit by Covid-19 a much-needed resource to help keep trading. Read |
 | Employment and Labour Deputy Minister Boitumelo Booi says the Covid-19 Temporary Employers/ Employee Relief Fund, set up to help those who found themselves out of work due to lockdown, will be extended to August... Read |
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