In East and West African communities, the NightWatch communications campaign reminds people, via radio, television and text messages, to get under their mosquito nets as part of the ongoing fight against malaria.
A portable voice-based computer for the blind, developed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, has been shortlisted in the South African Breweries Foundation inaugural Innovation Awards.
The fight against corruption got some heavy artillery today with the launch of Corruption Watch, an independent civil society institute formed to enable South Africans to report corrupt activity in both the public and private sectors.
The Bang Bang Club, a film about four photojournalists in pre-democratic South Africa, has received seven nominations at the 32nd Annual Genie Awards, the Canadian equivalent of the Oscars.
South Africa’s Yvonne Chaka Chaka, popular singer-songwriter and Goodwill Ambassador for the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, has become the first African woman to receive the World Economic Forum's Crystal Award. • SA songbird backs malaria fight
Lorna Rutto from Kenya has been named the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards 2011 laureate for sub-Saharan Africa for her creative business idea of making fence posts from plastic waste. ● Portable plant makes fuel from waste
Fair Cape Dairies has become the first South African dairy to publish its carbon footprint on its milk bottles, proving that it cares not only for its cows, but also the environment. • SA’s greenest dairy
Already known for its progressive green philosophy, Cape Town is about to score another coup by hosting the world’s first interactive climate change centre, a project driven by the Brussels-based International Polar Foundation. • Preserving memories of Antarctica
The South African Marine Rehabilitation and Education Centre near Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape is constantly on the lookout for birds needing a helping hand. • South Africa protects its oceans
Nedbank's 2012 Back-to-School campaign is giving underprivileged pupils the pride to go to school with all the resources they need to make a success of learning. • SA businesses urged to adopt schools
Three of South Africa's top schools have made it into the 2011 Global Education and Skills: An Oxbridge Guide publication, which aims to give a broad perspective of the standard of schooling around the world in both the private and public sectors. • Education boost for Gauteng
The Darling Music Experience, taking place in the Western Cape town in February 2012, will help shift perceptions of classical music and make it more accessible to a wider audience. • Building bridges with classical music
