It's World Malaria Day on 25 April. To raise awareness and curb the spread of malaria United Against Malaria (UAM) supporters bracelets have proven to be an effective fundraising tool to purchase life-saving mosquito nets in poverty-stricken sub-Saharan Africa.

Cyclists riding in custom-made shirts sponsored by Eurolux and Cadiz Asset Management raised R100 000.00 for SARDA (South Africans Riding for the Disabled Association) in this year’s Cape Argus.

Take the TLC Challenge this summer and help make A World of Difference by Saving Water

Welcome to the Sisterhood of the travelling handbags!

International Women's Day has been observed since in the early 1900's, a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies.

Recently I had the privilege of joining a colleague of mine, Michelle Dommisse, in assisting with a mediation between two parties whose business affiliation had utterly disintegrated.  Michelle is a qualified mediator, having completed a course from the Family Mediators’ Association of the Cape

Supakids is a household name in South Africa. We believe that every party we create should be unique to your needs. Through 2011, many new trends and themes have become popular amongst us party planners at Supakids and we are going to explore, adore and deliver many of these beautiful parties to our clients!

Playing ‘pass the parcel’ is a lot like dishing out your best smile. It ripples into an endless steam of delight and wonder (and the layers are endless!) The power of a single smile can really change the world.

Elgin Free Range Chickens is a great supporter of ThembaCare Grabouw and we, SPICE4LIFE have joined them when visiting the ThembaCare Hopice in Grabouw.

Pretoria, South Africa – 13 December 2011 - It’s that time of the year when many of us get blind-sided by the consumerism of the festive season, and lose sight of the true meaning of celebrating those close to us.

Thousands of kids at COP 17 in Durban have been telling world leaders to consider them when they decide the fate of the planet in regard to climate change.

The Climate Smart Cape Town Pavilion at COP17, constructed out of 1884 plastic milk crates and over 22 000 plastic milk bottles supplied by Polyoak Packaging, is a temporary structure that has a low-impact on the environment as it will be dismantled after the climate change conference in Durban and all the materials re-used.

The Reach For A Dream foundation is celebrating its 23rd birthday this year and 11286 fulfilled dreams nationally. On the 3rd of December Spice4Life will dedicate one of their Climbing Mountains challenges to Reach For A Dream on beautiful Table Mountain.

September 2011 marked the 8th year of the running of the Quads 4 Quads off-road motorcycle event from Johannesburg to Durban and back. The trip (1000km each way) was to raise funds for the QuadPara Association of South Africa (QASA).

Tips to "Reduce, Re-use & Recycle" this festive season

In December 2008 Angelo Henry ran an Antarctic Marathon, where he came in third for South Africa, and took his personal record to 7 marathons on all seven continents of the world. Now looms the final leg of Angelo’s ‘Grand Slam Club’ attempt – the North Pole Marathon.

I (like many urban people) spend most of my waking hours working. For this reason it is vital that I love what I do, since my work makes up such a large part of my daily life. While loving what I do is important, it is also important that the output of my activities includes love as well, or I do not really “feel it” inside.

The Salvation Army, together with Saatchi & Saatchi Cape Town, have set out to lift the veil on child trafficking with an innovative outdoor campaign to inform the unknowing South African public about the severity of human trafficking, the fastest growing criminal industry in the world.

Ros Walsh, PRO for run co-sponsor, Cipla, said all the money raised through the mammoth run would be handed over to Operation Smile to enable them to continue performing their life changing surgery  on children in Southern Africa.  “It costs just R5 500 to surgically correct a child’s cleft lip

POWAR will help survivors of any form of abuse and rape. I feel I can relate to them because of what I have been through.

Bianca du Plessis, funded by Neue Sentimental Film, embarked on a journey to create Feedback Food Redistribution. She started redistributing excess food in Cape Town in January 2000 and by November 2002 had delivered the millionth kilogram of food, the first million of many more.

News on NSRI - National Sea Rescue Institute

The Blue Bulls Company has applauded the generosity of local schools for showing just how willing they are to donate to a worthy cause. Clothing4Children, a non-profit organization formed by teenage brothers Schalk and Wim Burger in 2010, pledged to clothe 13.5 million desperately needy people in South Africa of which 1.2 Million needy people reside in the Pretoria Metropole.

It takes a lot of courage to make a dream come true. To live the life you want to live, when the rest of society is trying to impose its own blueprint on whom you should be.

WHEAT Trust is a national women's fund committed to grassroots women's empowerment for community development through skills training. WHEAT awards grants to individual women and women led community based organisations (CBOs/CSOs) to ensure active participation of women in the development of their respective communities.