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 | The Smile Foundation has announced that it is celebrating its coming of age with a brand new look and an expansion into new territories... read |
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 | | Family and friends of the late Sakina Grimwood have launched a fund for other young activists at schools in Cape Town...read |
|  | | In a year marked by political unrest and ongoing Covid-19 disruption, Old Mutual Insure put back R8m in 2021 into communities...read |
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 | Attacq Foundation has announced that the construction of three new classrooms at Phuthumani Primary School in Tembisa... Read |
| CSI & Sustainability |
 | ISSUED BY ONPOINT PR Applications now open for young changemakers from Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa to join the Global Citizen Fellowship Program for a year-long, full-time, paid placement... Read |
 | ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM Wishing our biz communities a happy financial year end and a prosperous year ahead! Like any new year, the right resolutions will set the intentions for success in the quarters to follow... Read |
| Education & Skills Development |
 | The Vodacom Virtual Classroom innovation allows the country to have all learning resources in one fit-for-purpose portal designed by experts with the interest of learners and teachers in mind... Read |
 | The new Science2Go Mobile Resource Centre will allow for around 10,000 learners and 30 teachers at 11 high schools... Read |
| Food, Water & Energy Security |
 | Checkers Sitari and the entire Sitari Village Mall located close to Somerset West have become SA's first premium supermarket and shopping centre to run entirely off renewable energy from wind and solar sources... Read |
 | ANDY DU PLESSIS, ISSUED BY FOOD FORWARD SA It is often said that food is the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. While this may be true, depending on your social context, consider how the lack of food could impact a person, a family, a community, and a nation... Read |
| Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice |
 | Google announced that its philanthropic arm, Google.org, is committing R15.3m in charitable funding to support programmes helping women entrepreneurs to grow their businesses... Read |
 | Woolworths Holdings Limited has become the first major South African retailer to be a signatory to the United Nations Women Empowerment Principles... Read |
| Infrastructure, Innovation & Technology |
 | The Pothole Patrol is a coopetition between two competing insurance brands, Dialdirect Insurance and Discovery Insure... Read |
| NGO, NPO & Social Enterprise |
 | With the ongoing unrest in the Ukraine due to the Russian invasion, the Gift of the Givers has sprung into disaster-management mode, working with South Africans on the ground and various organisations to support repatriation efforts, and to deliver essential items and medical equipment to those in desperate need... Read |
 | ISSUED BY FOX NETWORKS GROUP ESPN has opened a brand-new football pitch in the community of Makoko, in Lagos, Nigeria, as part of its Built To Play initiative... Read |
| Pollution & Waste Management |
 | ISSUED BY MPACT Global Recycling Day - 18 March 2022 - Good news for waste collectors - paper grocery and take-away food bags can be collected for recycling... Read |
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 | NITHEN NAIDOO As tensions increase following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the threat of state-sponsored cyber-attacks is a growing concern... Read |
 | The Global Gateway Africa-Europe investment package will allow the EU to support projects in priority areas on the continent, with a focus on the green transition... Read |
 | Google has launched Mali Magic, a digital treasure trove that aims to preserve and showcase Mali's historic and contemporary art and culture... Read |
 | MultiChoice's Nigerian business says it expects a $4.4bn tax dispute to be resolved "very soon"... Read |
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 | Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) Minister, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, has gazetted a further extension of the National State of Disaster on Covid-19, until 15 April 2022... Read |
 | GERO LILLEIKE The Russia-Ukraine conflict has sparked huge oil price increases that will have a significant impact on South African fuel prices in April 2022... Read |
 | This year's Forbes Woman Africa Leading Women Summit celebrated women in technology, entertainment, business, sport and more... Read |
 | PREETA BHAGATTJEE, APHINDILE GOVUZA AND REECE WESTCOTT In terms of the Protection of Personal Information Act, are businesses allowed to request an employee, customer, contractor or third party to disclose their vaccination status? Read |
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