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The recently held 2019 Eco-Logic Awards saw newly appointed minister of environment, forestry and fisheries Barbara Creecy deliver the keynote address, during which she emphasised the need for sustainable practice... read
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SIFISO MAZIBUKO
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Youth Month
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LEIGH ANDREWS
RX Radio has just celebrated its second year on air, as the station that's effectively for the children, by the children, as the Red Cross Children's Hospital's internet station... Read
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Climate Change
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VIRUSHA SUBBAN AND MATTHEW TOUT
The Carbon Tax Act and Customs and Excise Amendment Act were approved by the President in May, with the purpose of the latter to provide for the administration and collection of Carbon Tax revenue... Read
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Education & Training
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ISSUED BY ADOPT-A-SCHOOL
2-9 June marked Child Protection Week, a campaign to raise awareness on the rights of children as articulated in the Children's Act of 2005... Read
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Environment & Natural Resources
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DR NONHLANHLA KALEBAILA
Similar to other nations in the world, South Africa is dealing with a number of environmental concerns, including global warming, air pollution, urbanisation, water pollution, climate change and many others... Read
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SAMANTHA CHOLES
"If everyone said no to a receipt just for one month, we would save 45 trees." This is a classic example of greenwashing: making unsubstantiated or misleading claims about the environmental benefits of a product, service, technology or company practice... Read
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Instigated in 2012, it has taken seven years for the uMngeni Valley to be proclaimed a nature reserve. The process was officially gazetted on 16 May 2019... Read
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Andrew Patterson wasn't sure where the road would take him. He'd just been retrenched. Clutching the steering wheel in traffic, Patterson faced the mountain that loomed ahead... View
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Food, Water & Energy Security
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DR JOHN NGONI ZVIMBA
The South African water sector is dependent on one source of electricity supply which makes it vulnerable to load shedding, shortage of supply and increasing steep tariffs... Read
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The transformation of the world's energy markets continues to gain momentum. Renewable energy projects, which have seen a rapid decline in cost over the last decade, are increasingly powering the world's large economies... Read
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Green Economy
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ISSUED BY TOTAL
In recent years, big business has realised its role to develop cleaner, more sustainable business practices and initiatives... Read
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Health & Welfare
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ISSUED BY HETZNER
How an online partnership was formed between Habitat for Humanity and Hetzner... Read
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Inclusion, Equity & Human Rights
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Learn 2 Earn, a programme developed by the organisation Khulisani, has teamed up with BON Hotel Empangeni to provide work experience to South 32 learners with disabilities. Read
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Infrastructure, Innovation & Technology
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KFC Newmarket this year received LEED certification under the LEED 2009 for Retail - New Construction tool... Read
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Montego Pet Nutrition will reduce its annual electricity demand at its Graaff-Reinet-based production facility by 1.4-million kWh after recently completing a R22m solar plant project at the site... Read
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Pollution & Waste Management
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Research from the World Health Organisation (WHO) indicates that seven million people die each year from air pollution, where nine out of ten people breathe in polluted air each day... Read
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According to PETCO chief executive officer Cheri Scholtz, an average of 6.2 million PET plastic bottles were collected for recycling across South Africa every day last year... Read
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KATE O'NEILL
Less than two years after China banned most imports of scrap material from abroad, many of its neighbors are following suit... Read
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NUNU NTSHINGILA
Africa's economy is on the rise, freedom and prosperity are continuing to rise, and the continent is home to a youthful and dynamic population... Read
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BY FRANK MATTHEIS AND UELI STAEGER
After being ratified by the required minimum 22 nations, all the member states of the AU are now legally bound to allow African goods to be traded without restraint throughout the continent... Read
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Too many organisations take a reactive, rather than a proactive, stance toward incident response... Read
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The first quarter GDP growth of 2019 for South Africa is once again a negative number, with the economy contracting 3.2% year on year... Read
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