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| The launch forms part of Mattel's goal to achieve 100% recycled, recyclable or bio-based plastic materials across all its products and packaging by 2030... read |
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| ISSUED BY ISER The Rhodes Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) will offer a virtual training programme during July focused on improving critical skills on data collection, management and analyses... Read |
| ISSUED BY TRIALOGUE What has been learnt during the past year, and how can other organisations achieve similar success?... Read |
Food, Water & Energy Security |
| Cloetesville Primary School in Stellenbosch has become SA's first school to receive an Electrical Performance Certificate (EPC)... Read |
| ANDY DU PLESSIS While inflation seems to be steadily increasing, the sharp April rise to 4.4% from 3.2% in March has largely been driven by transport costs and food prices... Read |
Health & Welfare |
| ISSUED BY CITY LODGE HOTEL The Sandton and East Rand hotels in the City Lodge Hotel Group have once again handed over a massive haul of used but still functional items to the value of nearly R228,000 to Emthonjeni Community Centre in Zandspruit... Read |
Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice |
| TANIA BROUGHTON In a significant victory for more than five million people in KwaZulu-Natal living on land owned by the Ingonyama Trust, the Pietermaritzburg High Court has ruled... Read |
| ISSUED BY TRIALOGUE When President Cyril Ramaphosa called gender-based violence (GBV) the 'second pandemic' in South Africa, the simmering issue was finally acknowledged as a national crisis. However, for Vodacom, GBV has always been the 'first pandemic'... Read |
Infrastructure, Innovation & Technology |
| GBCSA and the Youth In Property Association (YIPA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with a strong focus on knowledge sharing and events... Read |
| SINDY PETERS Necessity breeds innovation, and this was certainly the case during Cape Town's 2017/18 drought when dam levels reached alarming levels... Read |
Investment & Philanthropy |
| Pivot. Adapt. Agility. Arguably this past year's three most overused buzzwords - and, if the countless pandemic-era think pieces are to be believed, the key to... Read |
Africa |
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| ANDY JURY Financial inclusion is not happening fast enough, even though the virtues of fintech's potential to bring hundreds of millions of people who are outside the mainstream are constantly touted... Read |
| Addressing the virtual meeting of the Committee of African Heads of State and Government on Climate Change, Ramaphosa said the continent needs a strong and well-coordinated common African position... Read |
| TOM HIGGINBOTTOM, ROSHAN ADHIKARI AND TIMOTHY FOSTER In 1938, French colonial authorities in what is today Mali started on an ambitious infrastructure plan to transform the desert into an area of agricultural production... Read |
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| MICHAEL TAYLOR Chanel is backing a new climate adaptation fund that aims to raise $100m by 2025 to invest in projects to promote sustainable agriculture, protect forests and support small-scale farmers in developing countries... Read |
| PIPPA CATTERALL AND AMMAR AZZOUZ Most people might not usually think of public space as being gendered, but this is how scholars of the built environment increasingly talk about it... Read |
| RUBEN VALBUENA AND THOMAS LOVEJOY The world is at a crossroads, as humanity tries to mitigate climate change and halt biodiversity loss, while still securing a supply of food for everyone... Read |
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| KATE COLLIER, SHANE JOHNSON AND HEATHER MUDAU A revised Covid-19 Direction on Health and Safety in the Workplace sets out the regulations on vaccines and guidelines for employers considering mandatory vaccinations of employees... Read |
| NICCI BOTHA President Cyril Ramaphosa's surprise announcement that the embedded generation threshold from 1MW to 100MW, as the country reels from stage 3 and 4 loadshedding, is a major step... Read |
| ANNELIZE OOSTHUIZEN President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a series of new tax- and finance-focused bills into law on 20 January 2021. Even though they primarily deal with administrative and technical issues, but there are a number of changes that will affect your work-related claims... Read |
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