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 | Minister Senzo Mchunu says the three-day water shutdown in Gauteng is a result of planned maintenance work on the pipelines... read |
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 | SIMON LEWIS The COP26 UN climate talks in Glasgow have finished and the gavel has come down on the Glasgow Climate Pact agreed by all 197 countries...read |
|  | ... Baz-Art, Greenpop and Cooperative Innovations have joined hands to open the world's first virtual museum - The Museum of Plastic 2121...read |
|  | TATJANA BALETA Dr Gideon Idowu, an Environmental Chemist at Nigeria's Federal University of Technology Akure, wants to know how serious the plastic problem is in Africa...read |
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 | MKHUSELI SIZANI Villagers in Nelson Mandela's childhood village have been without tap water for months due to the local municipality's failure to fix a faulty valve on its water reservoir... Read |
| Climate Change |
 | AYAKHA MELITHAFA, ISSUED BY TRIALOGUE The weight of the climate emergency is being carried by young people - but the Soweto uprising showed us how powerful the youth can be, and the crisis can be overcome if young people stand together... Read |
 | REBECCA GARLAND AND KRISTY LANGERMAN Eskom has been called the world's worst polluting power company and Mpumalanga province, where a majority of the Eskom stations are located.. Read |
| Education & Skills Development |
 | ISSUED BY DOTGOOD This Kindness Month, nine Kindness Principles have been introduced to 50 schools across Gauteng as part of a campaign to inspire our littlest citizens... Read |
| Environment & Natural Resources |
 | MERLITA KENNEDY, GARYN RAPSON & TOBIA SERONGOANE In the near future, companies operating in the mining, oil and gas sectors are likely to feel the brunt of the increasing prominence of ESG issues... Read |
 | Sustainalytics has ranked Vodacom Group as the world's number one telecommunications service company based on ESG performance... Read |
| Food, Water & Energy Security |
 | The Shoprite Group has added 22 new solar PV sites between February and September 2021, more than doubling its solar capacity... Read |
 | ANDY DU PLESSIS Since the right to food is directly linked to the right to life and the right to dignity, an exclusion of these rights is simply unjust, and a curtailment of people's freedom, writes FoodForward SA's Andy du Plessis... Read |
| Health & Welfare |
 | The South African Human Rights Commission has this morning commenced the National Investigative Hearing into the July civil unrest... Read |
| Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice |
 | KEN CHAN It has now become commonplace for major corporations to join in on LGBT events such as Pride Month, National Coming Out Day or the International... Read |
 | The R800 million Social Employment Fund, which is expected to create at least 50,000 jobs, is critical for uplifting communities... Read |
| Infrastructure, Innovation & Technology |
 | JOHANNES NOVY As the built environment takes centre stage at COP26, the scale and urgency of the climate crisis and of the industry's responsibility to address... Read |
 | GARYN RAPSON AND LEANNE MOSTERT African countries, including South Africa, are lagging far behind the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal on creating sustainable cities... Read |
| NGO, NPO & Social Enterprise |
 | CATHY SMITH As we continue rebuilding following the economic and social damage caused by the pandemic, there is ample opportunity for optimism... Read |
| Pollution & Waste Management |
 | Spar has initiated a shift from a linear to a circular economy in which plastic and other forms of packaging never become unnecessary waste... Read |
 | ISSUED BY DOTGOOD The Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) legislation, which recently came into effect, focuses on ensuring that the value of waste is never lost. It helps divert materials from landfills, requiring that these materials be recycled and reused instead... Read |
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 | Wan-Ifra Women in News has announced the recipients of its 2021 Editorial Leadership Award... Read |
 | Broll Property Group has observed various trends across the countries in which it operates, including Botswana, Cameroon, Eswatini, Ghana... Read |
 | MIKE DE CHARMOY PMG International has mapped out a considered strategy to ensure that it stands out in often cluttered African markets... Read |
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 | Tomorrow will see the release of local CPI numbers, ahead of the South African Reserve Bank's (SARB) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) interest rate decision... Read |
 | For years, Teljoy was the South African brand associated with first bringing television to South Africa in the 70s. It's a brand that has stood the test of time... Read |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH The MTBPS charts a course that demonstrates government's unflinching commitment to fiscal sustainability... Read |
 | LYNDY VAN DEN BARSELAAR With the festive season fast approaching, organisations may be contemplating whether or not to throw a year-end function for staff... Read |
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 | Mandisi Ads, a division of Mandisi Media Group, has launched another successful nation-wide OOH Mall campaign for GCIS, with the objective of informing employers and employees about the inclusion of domestic workers in the COID (Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases) act. |
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