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| |  | ISSUED BY SAPPI In a convergence of well-timed synchronicity, Women's Month in South Africa this year also saw the Netball World Cup and Women's Football World Cup taking place... Read |
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 | RACHEL SAVAGE A $436m "debt-for-nature" swap by Gabon to fund marine conservation has backers hoping for more such money-saving environmental deals, but some investors still see room for improvement in the increasingly-popular transactions... Read |
 | NYASHA CHINGONO Zimbabwe will allow developers of carbon credits to keep as much as 70% of the proceeds for the first decade of the project, with 30% paid as an environmental levy, the government said in regulations published on Friday... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY THE PUBLICITY WORKSHOP South Africa's leading stationery and art materials retailer PNA is once again supporting the 2023 Funky Socks Day campaign, in collaboration with non-profit organisation (NPO) Breadline Africa in a combined bid to make a positive impact on early child development and improve schools in vulnerable communities across the country... Read |
 | Ford SA responded to the appeal by Gift of the Givers for funding to roll out urgent humanitarian aid... Read |
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 | Since 2007, Eskom tariffs surged 653%-five times that of inflation. Load shedding is set to double in the next five years and franchise businesses must act fast to counter these threats for survival... Read |
 | GARYN RAPSON, KENT DAVIS, PAULA-ANN NOVOTNY & DALIT ANSTEY Mirroring other leading financial sector regulators across the globe, South Africa's Prudential Authority (PA) has signaled to banks and insurers that it is time for them to consider and integrate climate-related risks into their business practices, strategy, and management and disclose climate-related risks... Read |
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 | SEITHATI MOLEFI Women deserve safe, satisfying sex lives with choice, respect, and non-violence. South African women lack these rights, impacting HIV and pregnancies... Read |
 | Dis-Chem hails court nod for pharmacists to prescribe meds to HIV/TB patients... Read |
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 | FELIX ONUAH Google plans to train 20,000 Nigerian women and youth in digital skills and provide a grant of 1.2bn naira ($1.6m) to help the government's create one million digital jobs in the country, its Africa executives said on Tuesday... Read |
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 | KATJA HAMILTON South African court orders vaccine contract disclosure, leading transparency in pandemic response, inspiring global action, says Health Initiative... Read |
 | AWS Skills Centre in Cape Town has officially been opened and aims to provide accessible cloud skills training, including free foundational cloud training, for individuals interested in cloud computing and its potential career opportunities... Read |
 | The EG.5 or Eris Covid-19 variant's first case is confirmed by South Africa's Health Department in Gauteng province... Read |
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