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Powerful alliance in the fight against Aids

Winner — Drivers of Change Business Award: Apparel Lesotho Alliance to Fight Aids (Alafa).

Tourism to benefit the poor

Finalist — Drivers of Change: Civil Society Award: Fair Trade in Tourism South Africa

Bringing home the gold

Finalist — Drivers of Change: Individual Award: Maria Mutola

Eradicating poverty in Mauritius

A recommendation that poor children have access to pre-primary education was taken up by the minister of finance in his June 2008 budget speech.

Amigo — a friend in need

Joint Special Award — Drivers of Change Government Award: The Ministry of Finance and Economic Development in Mauritius.

A rural woman reaping the rewards of the harvest

Sowing seeds for the upswing

Agriculture is the future of Africa, says Professor Richard Mkandawire, New Partnership for Africa’s Development’s (Nepad) agricultural adviser.

Blueprint for a better future

Ordinary South Africans offer suggestions on what would bring about change in the country.

Graça Machel.

What would you change?

Nelson Mandela said that as long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

Exciting times ahead

In a special address delivered at the Women in Science 2007 Awards, Minister of Science and Technology Mosibudi Mangena paid tribute to the role played by women in science…