Growth and Democracy
Skilling South Africa
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- 05 June 2008
With South Africa’s skills shortage a major impediment to economic growth, the Joint Initiative on Priority Skills Acquisition has been set up to find ways of improving training and attracting skilled foreigners to the country.
Academics unpack xenophobia
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- 02 June 2008
As South Africans grapple with the recent spate of xenophobic attacks against foreigners, academics have also come together to try and find a solution to the crisis.
Growing the organic business
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- 22 May 2008
The demand for food produced in a natural and environmentally-friendly way is increasing rapidly, and a Swiss company’s healthy investment in organic produce is set to benefit farmers in South Africa.
Backsberg’s ‘green’ wine
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- 15 May 2008
Red or white wine? At Backsberg Wine Cellars there’s another choice: green. The South African winery is one of only five wine producers in the world making carbon-neutral wines, offsetting its CO2 emissions by planting thousands of trees.
The other South Africa: small people, big ambition
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- 13 July 2009
The country of crime, HIV and other challenges we face is not the only country. There is another South Africa, a questing, ambitious, hungry South Africa, writes Justice Malala.
Food security starts at home
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- 12 May 2008
Rural development organisation Is’Baya – meaning "homestead" – is helping rural Eastern Cape villages become self-sustaining by teaching them to cultivate high-value crops on their previously unproductive land.
New laws to cure health costs
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- 07 May 2008
The government is addressing the escalating cost of private health care services with new legislation aimed at ensuring that all South Africans have access to affordable health care.
