Do your research, know the risks and you may well reap the rewards! “How do we help our youth who are innovative to start a business to navigate these difficult times?”. This was the opening comment from the then acting Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) Commissioner, Mr Olano Makhubela, at the launch of Global Money […]
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The basic income grant debate has been rumbling in South Africa for two decades, ever since the grant was recommended by the Committee of Inquiry into a Comprehensive System of Social Security for South Africa in 2002. The reintroduction of the “social relief of distress” grant by President Cyril Ramaphosa, for unemployed people and unpaid caregivers who
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As South Africa celebrates National Women’s Day today, power and automation engineering firm ABB is focusing on building a future that prioritises diversity and inclusion by championing the hiring of female engineers. Nearly half of hired engineers in the company’s electrification business in Southern Africa are female. Jacky Mbanga, Human Resources Business Partner for ABB
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The University of Cape Town becomes the first University on the African continent to launch an online High School, with a free online curriculum option available to all. The University of Cape Town (UCT) announced that it will be launching an online high school, and become the first University on the African continent to extend
LEADING THE MAMAS MAMAS Alliance, the CSI agency with a network of 37 NGOs across the country, has appointed Kabelo Mosate as their new MD. Mosate has worked in the NGO sector for the past seven years, having previously been the Education Manager for the National Education Collaboration Trust. “What drove me to the sector
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In case you missed Tshikululu Social Investments Serious Social Investing Series, we have you covered. Attended by over 230 delegates and featuring some of our top analysts and academics, The Serious State of the Nation provided perspective on the recent community unrest, what the long-term consequences are, and where we go from here. Watch this
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Call for organisations involved in addressing GBVF to apply for grant funding “The unacceptably high levels of gender-based violence and femicide in South Africa are a blight on our national conscience, and a betrayal of our constitutional order for which so many fought, and for which so many gave their lives”. These are the words
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It is no secret that South Africa faces major social, political, and economic ills. We have not yet emerged from the shadow of Apartheid; we have some of the starkest examples of inequality on the globe, ordinary citizens are feeling the effects of a deteriorating state apparatus that is incapable of dealing with the complex
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Spiraling debt and less money to buy monthly groceries are the grim realities facing millions of domestic workers. The fourth annual SweepSouth Report on Pay and Working Conditions for Domestic Work across Africa has just been released and its findings paint a bleak picture of the pandemic’s socio-economic cost on their lives. The 2021 SweepSouth
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Source: mrpfoundation.org Youth Development is essential to helping the youth of South Africa prosper in life. There are far more prospective workers than there are jobs available for them, and many youth are not able to afford to study further and become more specialised. This is where youth development programmes come in. Offering young people work readiness programmes,
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