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Playpumps have made collecting water in many rural areas fun. Children on brightly painted merry-go-rounds make the task easier for thousands of women who walk a long way to a water source. The merry-go-rounds’ action pumps water from an underground source into an overhead reservoir, using a patented South African invention called a playpump.
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/ 6 November 2003
First National Bank (FNB) is one of the South African banks that measures it success by its contribution to community development, not only by growth in profits.
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/ 6 November 2003
The days are rushing past, and so are the minutes and seconds before Bafana Bafana national coach Ephraim "Shakes" Mashaba is set to announce his final 22 players for the Nations Cup in Tunisia in January next year. But will he have enough time to make them gel to take on the Nigerians, Morocco and Benin?
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<b>Winner — Corporate Employee Community Involvement Programme
Old Mutual Staff Volunteer Programme</b>
The Old Mutual Staff Volunteer Programme was launched in 1993, long before employee community programmes had become vogue in South Africa. It was set up in response to the many requests for funding the company received from staff.
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/ 6 November 2003
If you are feeling depressed or cynical about life, get hold of a copy of Old Mutual’s annual brochure on its Staff Community Builder Programme, writes <i>Fiona Macleod</i>. Titled <i>People with a passion … to give, to care, to share</i>, it is an uplifting glimpse into how ordinary people can make a big difference.
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<b>Finalist – Corporate Employee Community Involvement Programme:</b> Afrox’s Community Involvement Process and Bumbanani Day
Many companies take pride only in increased market share, but Afrox Oxygen Limited (Afrox) rates highly its achievements in improving staff relations and loyalty through its Community Involvement Programme (CIP).
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/ 6 November 2003
Ask a Capetonian to play “word association" with the name Community Chest, and the most likely responses will be “carnival" and “twilight team run". These two fun-filled events have become the public signature of the Community Chest of the Western Cape.
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/ 6 November 2003
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa was stuck in flat territory, albeit with a positive bias, at noon on Thursday. Dealers said activity had been largely rand driven, with the renewed weakness in the currency providing a boost.
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<b>Finalist – Corporations:</b> Eskom Abalindi Bakery
Life in rural South Africa is not easy for millions of impoverished citizens. Umzinyathi in Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal, is no exception. But an investment by the Eskom Development Foundation of more than R200 000 in a local bakery that was struggling to make ends meet has offered the community a ray of hope.
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A surprise meeting with Nelson Mandela on Robben Island made a moving finale on Wednesday for the visit of the Fifa technical team weighing up South Africa’s 2010 world cup bid.