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CSI & Sustainability
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ISSUED BY NEXT GENERATION
"Social investors need to start actively reconfiguring how they approach development initiatives in Africa and elsewhere," says Reana Rossouw of Next Generation Consultants, a specialist management consultancy that focuses on impactful social innovation... Read
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Climate Change
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KIMBERLY MUTANDIRO
About 50 protesters from Extinction Rebellion, Fridays for Future, and members of mining affected communities - many from Soweto - protested outside the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) in Sandton on Black Friday... Read
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Following a €2m grant to the Africa Climate Change Fund in 2016, the Government of Flanders has this year committed a further €1m to support five projects in three African countries - Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa... Read
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Education & Training
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SINDY PETERS
In the face of an immensely challenging digital skills gap on the continent, Mojolaoluwa Aderemi-Makinde, head of brand and reputation at Google Africa, remains optimistic... Read
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Environment & Natural Resources
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The Tikki Hywood Foundation and African Parks partnered to combine their expertise and resources to boost the protection of pangolins in Africa, the most heavily trafficked mammal on the planet... Read
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RANALD BOYDELL
Our power plants may be dirty now. But unlike combustion vehicles, electric cars give us the chance to finally free ourselves from high-carbon travel... Read
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Food, Water & Energy Security
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There is a notable opportunity for large farming operations to significantly reduce their energy spend and further ease strain on the national electricity grid... Read
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The Government of Italy, with support from the FAO, recently held an event highlighting Mediterranean and other traditional healthy diets as fundamental to... Read
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Health & Welfare
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ISSUED BY CIPLA
The Cipla Foundation, in collaboration with the Greater Tygerberg Partnership has launched a new community-based healthcare hub at the Bellville taxi rank... Read
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Inclusion, Equity & Human Rights
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At the recent inaugural session of the Global Gender Summit, hosted by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the organisation's president, Akinwumi Adesina, called for greater access to finance for African women... Read
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SINDY PETERS
$95bn - this is the average annual loss in Sub-Saharan Africa since 2010 due to pervasive gender inequality in the continent's economic activities... Read
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed into law the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Act which constitutes the nation's unprecedented statutory recognition of the Khoi-San communities, leaders and structures... Read
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NEO MASHIGO
Creativity is a word that carries a magical, if not mystical, aura. Creatives are often seen as different people, in a different room, while the suited folk get on with the business of running companies and the country... Read
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Infrastructure, Innovation & Technology
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The first building to be completed in the mixed-use Irene Link precinct in Centurion, the Barloworld Automotive and Logistics head office has been awarded a five-star Green Star SA Design Rating v1.1... Read
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The finalists in the CLiP STOMP (Stamp Out Marine Plastic Pollution) Awards, which seeks to recognise ideas and solutions that could reduce, or eliminate plastic pollution, have been announced... Read
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Pollution & Waste Management
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New prohibitions on the type of materials that can be accepted at landfill sites are causing the waste management industry a severe headache for a simple, related reason, says Johan van den Berg, MD of Averda SA... Read
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JOÃO MARQUES
For the better part of the last half century, oil and gas has been portrayed over and over again as the source of all evil across Africa, responsible for instability, power struggles, poverty, death, pollution and corruption... Read
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JANE NJOKU
Have you thought about where you will be or what you would likely be doing in five years time? Read
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