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Walking the nation together: The men turning endurance into hope
In a country often divided by inequality, unemployment and uncertainty, four men are attempting to reconnect South Africans through something profoundly simple: walking. Mshengu…
NGOs count the cost of lost United States funding
Jobs have been lost and organisations across South Africa and the continent are closing while others are barely surviving the financial crisis
The Ethical Agency recognised as green website hosting company
All of its services are powered by renewable energy sources
Brothers implicated in NLC dubious payments take each other to court
National Lotteries Commission chief operating officer, who is also under investigation by the SIU, has now been charged with malicious damage to property after a fight with his…
Non-profit organisations are critical to redressing structural causes of poverty
But thousands of their success stories remain undocumented, their value unmeasured
Young people want Youth Day to focus on today’s issues
It’s important to honour past heroes, but today’s youth activists also want their own struggles, and contemporary heroes, to be recognised
No ‘culture of silence’, says Sonke
Social justice sector moves from exceptionalism to introspection about same-sex harassment
Equal Education grapples with ‘toxic’ culture
Former staff members say Equal Education’s problems go beyond sexual harassment
Government: Anti-poaching organisations must register
The department of environmental affairs has said all NGO and NPO anti-poaching initiatives must register to ensure funds are being used properly.
Exposing youth to environmental issues
Delta Environmental Centre’s YES programme is the runner-up in the Non-Profit Organisations Award sponsored by Nedbank.
Able and willing
greenABLE is the winner of the Non-Profit Organisations Award, sponsored by Nedbank.
Measuring the difference
Total CSI expenditure is close to R7-billion every year, yet little is known about the impact of this spend.
Enabling the public sphere
Changes of tectonic proportions are happening in the social and development spheres across Africa.
From Zuma Inc to Zuma.org
The foundations on which the president’s private empire is built: Is the Zuma clan’s work in the non-profit sector philanthropy or influence trading?
How government starves the welfare sector
Cash-strapped groups plead for more funds: Subsidies have fallen so short of the needs of NGOs that many face imminent closure, writes Heidi Swart.