This year’s Ocean Innovation Africa (OIA) emphasised the dire need to protect our oceans. At the rate we’re going, it is estimated that by 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than there are fish. The consequences of our plastic consumption could mean the end of all of us. To say South Africa […]
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What does diversity and inclusion really mean? This question has taken on added significance as we navigate the pandemic. As our people have had to adapt to a world where remote and hybrid working becomes the norm, company values and culture have never been more important. For me, a strongly inclusive culture starts when a
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The University of Pretoria’s (UP) high-tech entrepreneurship incubator, TuksNovation, recently launched theBlue Ocean Corners Initiative along with several other stakeholders, including the Technology InnovationAgency. Led by the French Embassy, the initiative provides training to key South African incubators in Blue Oceanstrategy, which refers to a market where there is little to no competition. With the
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6DOT50 and BanQu have partnered to deliver digital money, digital identities and transactional services to marginalised workers and contributors to big brand supply chains. Smallholder farmers, recyclers and waste pickers, as contributors into the supply chains of big brands, are still unable to open bank accounts. For these individuals, being locked out of the global
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SPAR South Africa has once again been announced as the winner of the Rural and Township Development category for its Rural Hub Programme at the prestigious 2021 Absa Business Day Supplier Development Awards. The Awards celebrate companies that are building a better South Africa and 2021 is the second year in a row that the
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Gender-based violence (GBV) should be viewed as a human rights issue by South African companies, who have a vital role to play in eradicating the terrible scourge that is currently gripping our country. Given that businesses operate within society and form a part of the social fabric, companies are far from immune to the social
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The Vumela Fund, established by FNB Business and Edge Growth, today announced a new investment in Kusini Water, a cleantech enterprise that provides clean drinking water to local communities and corporates by manufacturing mobile, solar-powered water purification systems made from locally sourced macadamia nut shells and nanotechnology. The investment will enable Kusini Water to expand
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Imagine the concept of ‘food systems approach’ as organising a concert to bring together a wide range of performers across different genres, from classical orchestras and folk singers to rock bands and hip-hop musicians. To make it work, you need to take the relationships and power dynamics of all the stakeholders into account, who despite
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What do jockeys and entrepreneurs have in common? Not much at the face of it, but there are clear parallels between piloting a horse and getting a business to fly. Right out of the starting gate, entrepreneurs are in a race to win business funding in a way that jockeys steer their charges through a
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World Children’s Day was first established in 1954 as Universal Children’s Day and is celebrated on 20 November each year to promote international togetherness, awareness among children worldwide, and improving children’s welfare. World Children’s Day offers each of us an inspirational entry-point to advocate, promote and celebrate children’s rights, translating into dialogues and actions that
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