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Engen Expands ICT Training for Youth with 2025 Programme Intake Engen reaffirms its commitment to youth empowerment and skills development with the launch of the 2025 South Durban and Steelpoort intake for the Engen Global Citizen Development Programme (EGCDP). This initiative equips young South Africans with critical ICT skills, enhancing employability and driving socio-economic progress. […]

20 March 2025 – Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe was elected today as the 10th President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and the first female President in IOC history, following 1 round of voting at the 144th IOC Session in Costa Navarino, Greece. Coventry was chosen over fellow presidential candidates HRH Prince Feisal Al Hussein, David Lappartient,

Maralize Ponto (image supplied by Ogilvypr) South Africa produces enough food to feed its entire population, yet millions go hungry every day. The latest Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) study found that 17.5% of households face severe food insecurity, while 26.7% experience moderate food insecurity, meaning they often struggle to access enough nutritious food. This

By Marc Lubner, Group CEO Afrika Tikkun Thirty-one years into our constitutional democracy, terms such as social justice, social activists, social entrepreneurs and socio-economic rights have become ubiquitous in our social discourse. However, their true meanings warrant deeper reflection. According to the United Nations, “Social justice may be broadly understood as the fair and compassionate distribution

This Human Rights Day SOS Children’s Villages advocates for the rights of children Children have the right to parental and family care, or to appropriate alternative care when removed from their original family environment. They have a right to nutrition, shelter, health care and social services. With seven Children’s Villages and three Social Centres across

By Thabo Motlhabi “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time”. Says Mr. Kgosi Khumalo as the founder of Backyard Art Gallery, at a recently organised Art and Crafts Market Exhibition in partnership local Artists in the West Rand Township of Kagiso 2. Human Rights Day is celebrated around the

By Yolanda du Toit The FYI play it safe app has been developed by tech entrepreneur Rachelle Best. This essential monitoring tool, available on Google Play Store, helps parents to monitor their children’s phones and keep them safer online. The app runs in the background of the child’s device, scanning everything the child does on

Source: 2023 Bana Pele Roadmap Leadership Summit Bana Pele is the Sotho term for ‘Children First’. Many South Africans would agree that we’ve failed to instill this age-old adage – particularly when it comes to early childhood development. Over 1,3 million children aged between three and five aren’t receiving any form of early education. Only

The Coastal town of Plettenberg Bay was the third stop on the Drakensberg Boys Choir 6 stop tour of the Free State and the Western Cape, and what an evening it was! The performance was divided into two parts, the first somewhat classical and the second Afro-Pop. We started off with the Magnificat and ended

New €100 million malt production facility will create jobs, support local barley farmers, and strengthen South Africa’s brewing supply chain Soufflet Malt and HEINEKEN Beverages have entered a commercial partnership in South Africa, with Soufflet Malt set to supply malt used in Heineken’s South African operations. As part of this agreement, Soufflet Malt will invest €100