Impact SA

Key messages: The Hollard Daredevil Run acknowledges the critical role women play in men’s health, recognising that partners, mothers, sisters and daughters are often the driving force behind a man’s decision to get screened.​ Research consistently shows that women are instrumental in encouraging men to seek medical attention.

By Wongiwe Ludidi, Senior HRBP Supply Chain, CHEP Sub Saharan Africa South Africa has spent years debating how to fix its logistics system. The priorities are well established: improve ports, restore freight rail, attract investment and bring more private-sector capacity into the system. The scale of the challenge justifies that focus. Nearly 70% of South Africa’s freight still moves by road, while logistics inefficiencies are estimated to cost the economy close to R1bn a day.

The first Telkom FutureMakers TrailblazeHER cohort connected with investors and industry leaders at their graduation ceremony held at Killarney Country Club on 26 August 2026, creating valuable networks and opportunities to take their businesses to the next level. TrailblazeHER, a three-month accelerator, is designed to equip women entrepreneurs with the tools, knowledge and connections needed to scale their businesses, and position them for success.

By Graeme Wild, Chief Executive Officer, Sappi Southern Africa Every National Arbor Week, we quite rightly talk about the importance of planting trees. We talk about their role in absorbing carbon, protecting biodiversity and supporting healthy landscapes. These are important conversations, but after many years working in forestry and the bioeconomy, I have come to believe that we sometimes make the relationship between people and trees sound shallower than it really is.

Press Release by: Co-Conveners of the AAD, Rev. Dr Angelique Walker-Smith (USA) and Rev. Frank Chikane (South Africa) Africa & African Diaspora Conference aims to continue in its goal to develop further strategies to bring Africans and people of African descent together to find ways to reverse the historic impact of enslavement, imperialism and colonialism.

Six products earn matching honours at the 2026 Aurora International Taste Challenge and the South African Food & Beverage Awards Eskort, South Africa’s leading antibiotic-free pork producer, has done something remarkable at two of the food industry’s most respected taste competitions: entered six products and had every single one recognised at both events.

South Africa has built one of the continent’s strongest GBV response systems. The next step needs to be prevention, with business firmly and deliberately taking a defining role, says Virginia Francis, GBV Lead at Tshikululu Social Investments Statistics from the Human Sciences Research Council show the extent of South Africa’s gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) crisis. One in three South African women have experienced physical and/or sexual violence in their lifetime.

It’s the one day of the year when thousands of South African men proudly swap formal work wear for purple speedos, all in the name of saving lives. The 2026 Hollard Daredevil Run is taking place on Friday, 23 October and entries are now open. Over the past 17 years, this iconic men’s health movement has raised millions for the Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) and the Prostate Cancer Foundation of South Africa.

Investec has announced an expanded commitment to women’s professional golf in South Africa, including an increased prize purse for the Investec South African Women’s Open, a renewed five-year partnership with the Sunshine Ladies Tour, and the signing of two new sponsored players.

Lane Mogashoa, Business Development Support -Enterprise Development, Absa Business Banking When Chantelle de Bruyn’s grandfather had to give up coffee for health reasons, she wondered whether she could create something that would still give him the experience of having a cup. She found a peculiar answer in butternut, although turning that idea into a product people would actually drink took far more than inspiration.