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Phelokazi Mbete, the founder of the Zwelitsha Development Initiative, is changing the lives of young and old by working with companies to help provide the community with skills, knowledge and information to prepare them for future opportunities.

The trees are being felled along the Breede River and the biomass sold back to their native Australia

Alien trees make beautiful furniture - businesses can help planet and economy 27 April 2021 10:50 AM Share This: Avocado Visions Jules Newton explains why corporates must work with government to clear alien forests and make money out of it. Invasive plants are bad for our water, soil and sustainability argue conservation experts. But clearing them is often a losing battle from the get go with governments not having resrcing to get it down. But there might be money to be made while saving billi...

iAfrica Michal Gum Forest Share with your network! The first massive eucalyptus trees have been felled in the mid-Breede River area in a bold ‘value-adding chain’ project that will return 7 million litres of water per hectare cleared per year to the river system, and will sell much of the gum tree wood back to Australia where it came from. The win-win-win project represents a collaboration between the Western Cape ...

SAs water saving efforts boosted as felled gum trees are sold to Australia 15 April 2021 - 12:12 Felled gum trees along the Breede River will assist with efforts to save water in the Western Cape. Image: Supplied The felling of huge eucalyptus trees has been hailed as the least expensive and most effective way to avoid a water “day zero” in and around Cape Town. The mid-Breede River project to remove alien invasive plants along 25km of the river frontage near Bon...

financial literacy education initiative has adapted to meet the needs of vulnerable communities during the pandemic. Coronation Fund Managers, in partnership with community education specialists Avocado Vision, are providing consumer financial education to communities all around the country, free of charge, through 14 programmes in all nine provinces. Some are in rural settings, others are in urban or peri-urban areas, but all serve communities who need assistance. What’s really made a diffe...

This is how financial training is empowering SA communities By Supplied Share The Sanlam Foundation has appointed Avocado Vision to deliver consumer financial education that teaches essential money management habits to 8 332 South Africans in economically marginalised communities over the past three months. The impact of good money habits has a strong knock-on effect, helping families become more financially resilient through budgeting, risk planning and savings, among other things. With a goal...