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Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world

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Women stand at the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis, as health care workers, caregivers, innovators, community organisers and as some of the most exemplary and effective national leaders in combating the pandemic. The crisis has highlighted both the centrality of their contributions and the disproportionate burdens that women carry. This year’s theme for the International […]

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Game-changing initiative to curb unemployment in informal settlements

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With youth unemployment on the rise, plastic waste destroying the environment, and a general lack of skills keeping our youth out of the labour market, South Africa was facing multiple crises before the COVID-19 pandemic. The most vulnerable are hardest hit As the pandemic continues to ravage the economy, the vulnerable youth and women living

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No longer business as usual: The role of the private sector to improve schooling in South Africa

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This article is based on a Report  titled “No Longer Business as Usual: Private sector efforts to improve schooling in South Africa,” funded by Absa Group Citizenship, and prepared by the Centre for Development and Enterprise. Click here to download the Report , or visit www.cde.org.za The COVID-19 pandemic affected education systems around the globe

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Watch: How an Absa sewing project built one SME up in more ways than one during lockdown

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The brief was to sew 52 000 masks in a very short time. Absa’s support of this small company enabled its employees to feed their families. And as the Jodi Deerling team worked day and night to fill this enormous order, they gained another invaluable benefit from the project. They realised that they are also family to each other.

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Why CSI programmes for children affected by HIV/Aids are more important now than ever before

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2020 will forever be remembered as the year of Covid-19. Efforts to keep economies afloat, infection and death rates down, as well as to create a vaccine have been the primary focus worldwide. In the chaos, the progress made in the fight against HIV has been gravely threatened. And it appears that children will pay

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Astral Foods Limited spreads joy by feeding communities in need

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With many individuals facing unprecedented hardships since the start of the nationwide lockdown, it became increasingly evident that much relief would need to be given to those most affected by the crippling outcomes that would follow the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown. Astral Foods heeded the call to give back; after all, it

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Thriving Township spaza owner shares entrepreneurial journey during the pandemic.

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-Written by Neelam Diah “Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive”-Jamais Cascio. In a recent interview with BM Services – Ithembalakho, owner Mr. Nhlanhla Phiri shares his entrepreneurial journey with us. He shared how he learnt to thrive through these uncertain

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