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Free SA rejects pension tax proposals: “Hands off our retirees!”

Immediate Release1 October 2025 The Foundation for Rights of Expression and Equality (Free SA) has launched a national campaign to oppose proposed government measures to tax foreign pensions, a move it warns will severely undermine the financial security of elderly citizens, damage South Africa’s attractiveness to foreign retirees, and deter the return of diaspora citizens […]

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Beacon Bay Retail Park Enterprise Development Programme builds skills, strengthens businesses, and changes lives

Press ReleaseImmediate Release22 September 2025 Beacon Bay Retail Park: Where Local Business is Getting a Real Boost In October 2024, Growthpoint Properties, in partnership with Property Point, launched an Enterprise and Supplier Development Programme at Beacon Bay Retail Park in East London. The programme was introduced during a period of refurbishment and expansion at the

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Inappropriate wheelchairs do more harm than good: “Our communities need tools to thrive, not just survive”

That’s the call from Lidia Pretorius, veteran disability inclusion consultant as she supports a growing movement challenging how wheelchairs and mobility devices are designed, donated,nand delivered across Africa. Amid growing calls for systemic change, Pretorius advocates co-creating a world where every child can move freely, by cultivating partnerships that support local design and the manufacture

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Baby Savers SA and the Door of Hope will face the Dept of Social Development in the Pretoria High Court, in ongoing dispute

25 August 2025 Baby Savers SA, an organization dedicated to offering desperate mothers an option for safe relinquishment of unwanted babies as a measure to address the scourge of baby abandonment in South Africa, will be represented in the Pretoria High Court today. This comes as the court will be requested to extend a rule

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Krones Southern Africa and ISFAP partner to fund 29 deserving poor and missing middle students

30 July 2025 Johannesburg, South Africa – A strategic collaboration between Krones Southern Africa and the Ikusasa Student Financial Aid Programme Foundation (ISFAP) is delivering tangible results, with 29 students funded to date, and a steadily growing commitment to expanding access to university qualifications in South Africa. This impactful partnership is not just about bursaries;

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Do South Africans still trust commissions of inquiry? Free SA calls for accountability, not empty spectacle

15 July 2025 Free SA has launched a bold public campaign asking the question many South Africans are quietly contemplating: Do we still trust commissions of inquiry? The question comes in the wake of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s recent announcement of a commission of inquiry into allegations of corruption involving Police Minister Senzo Mchunu. Free SA

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NEWF Welcomes U.S. and South African youth in groundbreaking cultural exchange, as YICAP programme builds bridges through maritime archaeology and storytelling

“Those who died in shipwrecks in the slave trade were still Africans, they did not reach the America’s to become African American… and many of their souls remain at the bottom of the ocean. Through this exchange, we reclaim memory and reconnect youth with their heritage.” – NEWF Executive Director and Co-Founder, Noel Kok. Immediate

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Urgent call for support to protect SMMEs in the wake of the US tariff announcement

11 July 2025Johannesburg, South Africa – As concerns mount over the United States’ announcement of a 30% tariff on all South African goods, Entrepreneurship to the Point (eTTP) has expressed the urgent need for support for SMME’s. As diplomatic channels work to de-escalate the situation before the 1 August deadline, eTTP warns that the tariffs,

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Free SA Supports BELA Guidelines: Local accountability must triumph over centralised control

20 June 2025 The Foundation for Rights of Expression and Equality (Free SA) has welcomed the Department of Basic Education’s newly published BELA implementation guidelines, which rightfully affirm the power of school governing bodies (SGBs) to determine their own language and admissions policies within a constitutional framework. Free SA strongly supports efforts that place meaningful

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Youth Month 2025: ISFAP commends 1472 graduates for empowering themselves to make a contribution to society – with 361 Engineering graduates to date

18 June 2025 The Ikusasa Student Financial Aid Programme Foundation (ISFAP) wishes to commend the 1472 graduates who have obtained university degrees in occupations in high demand through its bursary scheme, since its inception in 2017. The majority of these graduates have obtained qualifications in Engineering Sciences, with 361 total graduates to date. Since its

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