SUPPORTING SMALLHOLDER FARMERS AMIDST THE PANDEMIC Nozizwe Mhlongo farms on 10 hectares of land in Sehlakoane, a rural area in Limpopo. Some of this land she uses for maize production which recently benefited from Bayer’s Better Farms Better Lives initiative. Nozizwe is one of the estimated two million smallholder and subsistence farmers in South Africa, […]
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Nedbank provides over R6,4 million in disaster funding and volunteer assistance to support relief and rebuilding efforts. As a responsible corporate citizen, Nedbank has joined the recovery and relief efforts, providing more than R6,4 million to support clean-ups, humanitarian relief and infrastructure rebuilding due to the unrest in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal. According to Poovi Pillay,
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Cassie Jaganyi is the Corporate Affairs and Citizenship Leader for Sub-Sahara Africa at Procter & Gamble. We spoke to Cassie about The Always Keeping Girls in School program which is inspired by the Always brand purpose (to unleash women and girl’s confidence so they can be whoever they want to be) and by Procter &
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With the COVID-19 pandemic affecting many Mandela Day CSI initiatives for the second year running, CSI Agency MAMAS Alliance has some advice and guidance to offer corporates this year. MAMAS Alliance prioritizes the empowerment and upliftment of vulnerable youth and children across South Africa, with a network of 2 200 Mamas across 37 independent autonomous NGOs operating
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If we want to give the next generation of young South Africans a chance to forge a meaningful life, we have to teach them to read. Reading is an essential skill not only for success in school, but throughout your life. Children who learn to read typically continue their schooling to matric and beyond, giving
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“A love of reading is sparked when children see themselves in stories and relate it to their lives, even more so when it is shared in their home language,” says Xolisa Guzula, an early literary specialist. However, the first book many South African children read is not the immersive experience Xolisa describes, as very few
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As part of their continued investment into the education of South Africa’s learners, BIC stationery is donating pens and pencils to under-resourced schools across the country. This year, the campaign ran from March ending in June 2021, which was made possible through the brand’s longstanding ‘Buy a Pen, Donate a Pen’ initiative. This year’s donation
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How can South Africans ever show their gratitude to the thousands of healthcare workers who put their lives on the line to fight the Covid-19 pandemic? We can do it by standing together and helping to fight the pandemic – be it by making donations and taking part in initiatives to support healthcare workers, or
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During lockdown it quickly became apparent that the education of South Africa’s children could become one of the real calamities to be inflicted by the pandemic. Something had to be done and like many organisations, Liberty was one of the many companies that stepped forward and contributed to the Solidarity Fund at the beginning of
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Covid-19 is an unprecedented global health crisis. In South Africa, the pandemic has resulted in an unparalleled response from all sectors to mitigate the social and economic impact of the pandemic. Since the day President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the national lockdown in March, social investors have played an integral part of the national response.
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