Siyamthanda Community Services is currently spearheading a community based initiative where they turn illegal dumping spots into recreational areas with the aim to put the end to illegal dumping. The program go as far as clearing up vacant spaces which are bushy, sometimes it pedestrian routes which are unsafe to …
Read More »Sfiso ngobese transforms the cart for waste pickers
Sifiso Ngobese is a social entrepreneur from Soweto, South Africa, working with Unconventional Media, an organization that empowers informal waste collectors in the South Africa’s Gauteng Province. Sifiso has come up with a plan to make waste collection safer for the men and women who push trolleys collecting trash on …
Read More »Tandi Macam’s fundraising campaign for GDF bears fruits
Tandi Macam, who heads Green Development Foundation’s Payroll and Finance Department, took it upon herself to source out Donations for the company at seeing the dire need to boost the company’s success forward. Her approach was based on the need to close the gap that was evident to the team on …
Read More »Local cooperatives in Germeninston are making Agriculture fashionable!
Mr. Vusi Matladi and Mrs. Sibongile Mkhabela welcomed the Green Development Foundation Team to the wonderful work done at Barcelona Primary School by the Etwatwa Greening Team in Germinston, where Ms. Thobile monitored their agriculture activities since delivering potato seedlings for Etwatwa Greening Team. The traveling consisted of visiting another …
Read More »Dikole section youth turns a dumping site into a Car wash facility
The Clean City Ward 49 brigades weekly clean up routine in Venus street, Dikole Section was met with a wonderful idea to renovate one of the local spaces which used to be a dump site before changes were made in cleaning up the facility there. A group of gentlemen from …
Read More »Eco Champion
Zwonaka poultry & agricultural farming started in March 2015 and is suited at Tshivhilwi village in Thohoyandou. We start our company by growing chickens from chicks until they get ready to go for markets. We attracted some small numbers of consumers around the villages and even in townships. We have …
Read More »Ngwelezane Township is going green!
The youth of Ngwelezane which is made up of business owners, influencers and environmental activists have joined forces in rectifying the waste Management crisis in Ngwelezane. Everywhere where the is a Skip (Bin) there is a crisis with waste management , those areas are normally turned into illegal dumping sites. …
Read More »EKasi Still Water receives a warm welcome by Ngwelezane residents
It refreshing to see growth and expansion of African owned business despite the looming global business depression that is upon us because of the Covid19 outbreak and the government restrictions that comes with it. EKasi Still Water was founded in 2019 by Sphelele Shabalala in ESkhaleni, he later opened another …
Read More »We will regain full control and ownership of our Township Economy!
Covid19 has taught us to appreciate where we come from. Majority of us are back home during this Lockdown period. The big question is, are you happy with the ownership of the economic activities in your area? The only thing that we are left with in our Townships are the …
Read More »flattening the curve one community at a time!
IMbumba Foundation in partnership with Linzwa Foundation distributed hygiene packs to the community of Kwa Dlangezwa this morning. This was the joint effort from the local leadership and these two foundations. This initiative also raised the awareness about this deadly diseases, people were taught how to protect themselves from this …
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