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In a handover ceremony held at its Johannesburg head office last week, conservation-led experiential travel company &Beyond received a donation of ZAR 1.2 million towards the protection of rhino at its Phinda Private Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal.

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When a staff member at the group’s Tshwane office approached Tutu Mpungose, the driving force behind Aurecon Cares, for assistance in supporting the Masizakhe Sitjheje Isitjhaba Home-based Care Centre, she took the lead in gaining approvals and implementing a hands-on solution to addressing some of the care centre’s needs.

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Land Reform in South Africa - so, what is the REAL problem?

Wednesday, 22 May 2013

Background The government has set itself the target of transferring 30% of South Africa’s arable land into the hands of emerging farmers.  Currently only about 8% has been purchased from existing, successful commercial white farmers on a ‘willing buyer-willing seller’ basis and transferred to emerging farmers.  This has involved some 4 800 transactions.  It is estimated by the S.A. Institute of Race Relations that some 80% have “failed” as continuing commercial operations. Many reasons have been put forward to explain this.
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TREC-ing for Rhino conservation

Author: Steuart Pennington
Monday, 20 May 2013

article thumbnail I recently received a letter from a colleague of mine regarding a really intrepid adventure to raise funds for rhino, as follows:
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Backpacking from Cape Town to Addis Ababa Part 6

Author: Valerie Bowden
Monday, 20 May 2013

article thumbnail Valerie Bowden is from Indiana in the United States. She recently graduated from Barry University and after a brief visit to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia she saved enough money to backpack from Cape Town to Addis Ababa using public transport only. At SA - the Good News we will feature regular blogs on her travels, treats, troubles and travails. We wish her a safe, intriguing and fulfilling journey.
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South Africa has the distinction of being one of only twelve countries in the world where it is safe to drink our tap water. As at 2012, the quality of South African tap water is ranked as third best overall (Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa)

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article thumbnail When we started CIDA Campus, we wanted to prove to the international development world that the only meaningful development of Africa is through the meaningful development of the people. We wanted to prove that even the kids thrown away by society could go to top level professions.
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