Ford aims to become carbon neutral by 2050 by committing to electricity
By Pritesh Ruthun
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JOHANNESBURG - On the road to building a better world for future generations, Ford has announced significant greenhouse gas emission targets in its 2021 Integrated Sustainability and Financial Report summary, as the company aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.
Ford has used the approach of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to set interim emissions targets that are in line with what the latest climate scientists deem necessary to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. The 2035 targets consist of reducing absolute greenhouse gas emissions from company global operations by 76% and from new vehicles sold globally by 50% per kilometre.
Dr Imtiaz Sooliman chairman and founder of Gift of The Givers. Picture: Moeletsi Mabe
A year of Covid-19 in SA: Many lessons were learnt amid the carnage, says Gift of the Givers founder
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Imtiaz Sooliman
March 5 marks the anniversary of the first Covid-19 case diagnosed in Hilton, South Africa. What followed was nothing short of carnage as 42 variants wreaked havoc through two waves, the second one infinitely more devastating than the first: countless souls departed, anxiety, fear, emotional and mental Ill health at an all time high especially among first responders, job losses in the millions, bread winners succumbed, livelihoods shattered, and givers have become takers.
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Member of Parliament for Chikwawa Nkombedzi Constituency, who is also deputy minister of lands, Abida Sidik Mia, has secured a $90 000 grant from Japanese Embassy to construct a modern health clinic in the catchment area of group village headman Therere in her constituency.
Abida (c)Japanese Ambassador and other senior officials after the signing ceremony
The signing ceremony of the grant took place this week at the Japanese Embassy in Lilongwe.
In an interview, Mia was grateful to the Japanese embassy for the grant.
“Over 12 000 people in Therere community in my constituency cover long distances to access the nearest health clinic and I am overjoyed that this clinic will alleviate that burden and related expenses.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa caused a Twitter stir after he announced that he and, seemingly, the South African government, would be nominating the Cuban doctors working in the country for the Nobel Peace Prize, says
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President Cyril Ramaphosa caused a Twitter stir after he announced that he and, seemingly, the South African government, would be nominating the Cuban doctors working in the country for the Nobel Peace Prize. Not having seen this coming, many stunned South Africans disagreed with Ramaphosa, proposing instead that The Gift of the Givers Foundation, the largest disaster-response NGO in Africa, founded in South Africa, be the one to get the nomination.
“A ghost town” is how soup kitchen co-founder Rashaad Baker described his hometown of Touws River (Touwsrivier), an old railway town along the N1 highway in the Western Cape.
With the prolonged Covid-19 lockdown, many of the town’s residents have become unemployed and dependant on soup kitchens for food.
Touws River is an old railway town about 180km from Cape Town, a two-hour journey by car.
Ali Sablay, project manager at humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers Foundation, told
Daily Maverick he had been receiving calls for assistance from Baker and soup kitchen co-founder Daphne van der Merwe, since October 2020.