Growth and Democracy
It starts with you
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- 28 April 2008
It starts with you, says Movement for Good, a campaign that encourages citizens to take responsibility for making South Africa a country we all want to live in.
Transforming lives through sport
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- 29 April 2008
Hoops 4 Hope uses sport to grab children’s interest, and once they’ve got that attention they empower them with life skills that allow them to deal with the challenges that they face daily.
Celebrating 14 years of freedom
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- 24 April 2008
On 27 April 1994 the world watched in awe as South Africans voted in the very first democratic elections. This year, South Africans commemorate 14 years of freedom with an array of planned events.
Green airline goes greener
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- 24 April 2008
Kulula.com, one of South Africa’s successful low-cost airlines, is not only green in livery but green in purpose, as it launches Project Green, its environmental greening initiative.
Soweto's state-of-the-art library
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- 28 March 2008
The newly refurbished Jabavu library in Soweto, South Africa’s largest township, is a state-of the-art facility housed in the Arthur Ashe Tennis Centre, which has been resurrected 30 years after it was vandalised during the 1976 students’ uprising.
The great granny revolution
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- 14 March 2008
A group of Canadian grandmothers have formed a remarkable partnership with other grandmothers in the South African township of Alexandra, women forced by the Aids-related deaths of their own children to return to parenting, raising their orphaned grandchildren.
Judge Sachs honoured in NY
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- 12 March 2008
At an awards gala in New York, Justice Albie Sachs, one of the authors of South Africa’s Constitution and a current judge of the Constitutional Court, is to be honoured for his fight for economic justice and human rights.
