Igniting Youth Entrepreneurial spirit
The REISA Youth Social Enterprise Development Programme launched this year, aimed at igniting enthusiasm amongst youth entrepreneurs, who are...
Igniting Youth Entrepreneurial spirit
Improving early learning in communities
Improving early learning in communities
Working to address one of the Northern Cape Province’s biggest challenges to education outcomes, De Aar Solar Power began implementing a...
Dignity packs delivered to schools
Dignity packs delivered to schools
Zeerust Solar’s community development representatives recently visited Stinkhoutboom Primary, in Ramotshere Moiloa Local Municipality, to deliver...
Clinics receive support and medical equipment
Clinics receive support and medical equipment
The Noupoort Community Healthcare Centre, which services thousands of community residents, has received a much needed X-ray machine, funded by...
Studying with a love for agriculture
Studying with a love for agriculture
Keneilwe Seane (25) from Dilaeneng in Bochum, Limpopo, has an udeniable passion for agriculture, and now has a chance to fulfil her dream, by...
Young women trained to service wind turbines
Young women trained to service wind turbines
Esethu Mabena, (25 years) from the Eastern Cape’s Cookhouse community, is one of the two young women selected to participate in a Wind Turbine...
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Biodiversity mitigating measures are saving bats
Eastern Cape. Working in collaboration with local wind farms, the Greater Kromme Stewardship (GKS) initiative, which focuses on conservation in the Kouga region, has noted the positive strides being made by some of the wind farms with regard to creating no net loss to biodiversity from their operations. Through the installation of acoustic deterrent devices on selected turbines, two wind farms in particular are seeing significantly reduced bat fatalities. For some turbines this reduction can be as much as between 80% and 100%. Pilot studies began in 2018, with Jeffreys Bay Wind Farm...