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June 19, 2020

A hopeful exchange

Cape Town’s The Hope Exchange began in the 1980s as The Carpenter’s Shop, offering homeless people carpentry training and a hot meal. Founder member and chairman of Maynards Office Technology, Geoff Burton shares this social enterprise’s remarkable journey.
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June 19, 2020

Wanted: Partnerships that effect change

COVID-19 is pushing available services to the limit and testing a fragile interdependent and complex system, writes Zahid Badroodien, mayoral committee member for Community Services and Health at the City of Cape Town.
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May 20, 2020

CCID locks in on safety

Despite challenging circumstances, the Cape Town Central City Improvement District continues to uphold safety in the CBD during the national lockdown.
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May 20, 2020

Lockdown

When our vendors lose, we lose.
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May 20, 2020

Flattening the curve

Dr Clio Pillay, a Cape Town medical doctor who is currently based in the United Kingdom, shares eight lessons South Africans can learn from countries most impacted by the global coronavirus pandemic.
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March 17, 2020

Under the seas

The Mount Vema expedition documented and showcased the richness of biodiversity, along with the threats posed to it by human activity, which include over-fishing, plastic pollution and the climate crisis.
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March 17, 2020

In the ring with Siv Ngesi

Actor, stand-up comedian and now Bollywood singer, Siv Ngesi is bubbly by nature. Whether boxing, supporting charities or jet-setting for work, he always maintains his charismatic smile and sunny disposition.
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February 21, 2020

“Who needs a leg?”

When Thabo Dube lost his leg in an accident, permanently shattered. But creativity kicked in and he began telling his story through the manufacture of leather bags.
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February 21, 2020

Pangolins. Will they become the dodo of our generation?

World Pangolin Day, which was on 15 February, marked an important date in celebrating an enigmatic mammal species that is on the verge of becoming extinct. We find out why.
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