Aim To Leave A Positive Footprint When You Travel: Be A Responsible Traveller
Tourism businesses have long known that it’s imperative to become more sustainable and to actively seek ways to reduce their carbon footprint. And many have been making great strides in this regard with operators and hotels committing to be better and do better when it comes to environmental impact. The devastating drought that hit the […]
World Entrepreneur Day: Time For ESD To Rediscover Its Purpose In Technical Capacitation Of SMMEs
By Larisha Naidoo, Head of Anglo American Zimele South African corporates have been running enterprise supplier development (ESD) programmes for years, helping to create thousands of SMMEs, who have often thrived and become employers in their own right. However, we often overlook the accountability that these programmes ought to demonstrate to the communities we serve. […]
Entrepreneurs’ Success Depends On An Entrepreneurial Banking Approach
South Africans’ famed resilience has truly been put to the test over the last two years, between COVID-19, electricity shortages, unrest, increase in fuel prices, interest rate hikes and climate disasters. The country has been through so much – but its entrepreneurs are simply not giving up, seeking opportunity in adversity to become the drivers […]
LEAP Africa And Dow Partner To Drive Youth Engagement In Sustainability Across Africa
In commemoration of International Youth Day, LEAP Africa, one of Nigeria’s foremost youth-focused leadership development organisations and Dow are pleased to announce the third edition of its Pan-African ‘Youth Day of Service (YDoS)’ campaign, a youth-led social impact campaign with the theme — Youthful and Useful. The Youth Day of Service is a week-long event that seeks to […]
Buying In Bulk Can Help To Stretch Your Monthly Budget
If you are becoming serious about budgeting and saving, buying your monthly groceries and other items in bulk is an excellent strategy. The reason for this is that when you go about bulk buying in the right way, you will save a significant amount of money every month and relieve the financial pressure you may […]
Mzansi National Philharmonic Orchestra Collaborates With Top SA Artists To Highlight The Plight Of Refugees
The Mzansi National Philharmonic Orchestra (Mzansi NPO) was proud to partner with the Turquoise Harmony Institute (THI) at a recent performance in Johannesburg aimed at highlighting the plight of asylum seekers and refugees, who are among the world’s most disenfranchised people. The intention was to reframe the refugee experience, shifting the debate away from refugee […]
To Truly Enjoy Botswana’s Monumentally Wild Spirit, Take to the Open Road
Whether you’re road tripping by 4X4 or in a smaller sedan, a self-driving expedition through national parks and game-rich reserves will transform your vacation into an adventure, allowing you to take in many of the best things to do in the country along the way. Traveling by car allows precious freedom to camp wild in […]
Exploring a South African Province through the Eyes of Three Travellers who Never Left
For Scott, it was the friendships and connections he built in South Africa that led him to stay in the Cape. A Northern Irishman who’s no stranger to travelling the globe, he now runs a foundation called the School of Hard Knocks, which uses sport and psycho-social counselling to help children’s mental health. Khobi-Jane also […]
Returned Artefacts from European Museums could Boost Africa’s Travel and Tourism
In June, the Smithsonian in the US undertook to return 29 Benin bronzes held in its National Museum of African Art collection, in July Germany signed an agreement with Nigeria to cover over 1000 objects in its museums and In August the UK’s Horniman Museum announced it would return 72 artifacts. Nigeria’s Legacy Restoration Trust […]
High-speed Internet on Africa’s Highest Mountain would Now be Available to All
Climbers ascending Mount Kilimanjaro can now document their ascents in real-time on Instagram, following a recent move by Tanzanian authorities to install high-speed internet around the mountain’s slopes. Mount Kilimanjaro is in northern Tanzania and is Africa’s highest peak standing at over 19,000 feet. “Today Up on Mount Kilimanjaro: I am hoisting high-speed INTERNET COMMUNICATIONS […]
