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From the Union Buildings

As countries around the world work to reduce carbon emissions, there is great potential for South Africa to establish and develop new industries.

For us, reducing our carbon footprint is critical to the health and well-being of our people, the sustainability of our society and ensuring that our goods and services remain competitive into the future. At the same time, it is a great opportunity to grow and diversify our economy and create employment.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation has called on the world to unite and act against climate change and food insecurity by planting trees, establishing or working in community and home-based food gardens as part of Mandela Day 2023.

Chief Operating Officer of the Green Development Foundation, Talifhani Tshitwamulomoni, said, “We cannot end climate change, but we can mitigate its devasting effects.” 

A youth-owned agricultural cooperative is helping to end poverty and unemployment in Marapyane, in Mpumalanga, by producing grain and vegetables.

Bakgatla Grain Project is a youth initiative with six members who want to improve the lives of Marapyane residents, especially women and youth who come from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Sports, Arts and Culture

When it was time for story reading in her Grade 3 class Anna Machaka (24), always wondered if authors were real-life people who sit and write books

That was when the dream of being an author of children’s books started.

Sports, Arts and Culture

Proudly SA has launched a television commercial that puts the country’s future labour force (children) in the spotlight.

The organisation has developed a television commercial which demonstrates the direct impact that consumers can have on the future of South Africa's children if they  buy and support homegrown products and services.

A group of women in the Free State are eradicating poverty in Meloding, Virginia, through a community development and nutrition centre that provides daily meals to unemployed and vulnerable residents.

Bomme ba Boithatelo bo Botle consists of a group of women dedicated to serving their community by providing meals to residents who are living below the poverty line.

What started as a passion project for women to be financially independent is now a booming bakery business that has created about 25 employment opportunities.

Matlhogonolo Ledwaba’s The BreadBox Bakery and Studio began as a way of positively impacting the lives of women by empowering them with baking skills.

Ledwaba is based in Midrand, Gauteng.

Fanafikile Lephakha has blossomed from growing up in rural Phuthaditjhaba in the Free State to being internationally recognised as the first black South African to cross the Atlantic in a rowing boat.

Lephakha went to the University of Johannesburg where he became a qualified chemical engineer.