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Corporate Mental Health Week 1-5 July As organisations rush to adopt artificial intelligence, much of the conversation has focused on productivity, efficiency and competitive advantage. Far less attention has been paid to what happens to people’s mental health when work becomes faster, more monitored, more uncertain and potentially never-ending. Globally, an estimated 12 billion working days are lost every year to depression and anxiety at a cost of US$ 1 trillion per year

Traditional cooking methods and entrepreneurial spirit are helping create a brighter future for rural women. An East London social entrepreneur is driving a solution to rural poverty and economic exclusion of women and youth by tapping into the modern trend for heritage-inspired wellness. Rural Impaqt Bone Broth founder Phumeza Stuurman and her all-female cooking team in the village of Nxarhuni on the outskirts of East London transform animal bones, an often-discarded agric

Spier Light Art Returns for Its Ninth Year - And It's Looking for Artists and Makers Africa's longest-running light art exhibition invites artists to submit expressions of interest by 21 July 2026. Spier Light Art has opened its call for artists ahead of its 2027 edition, running from 26 February to 21 March 2027 across the historic Spier Wine Farm in Stellenbosch. Now in its ninth year, Spier Light Art is South Africa's leading platform for light-based contemporary art a

SMME Day 2026 Dr Thobile Radebe is a Lecturer in Strategic Management at Stellenbosch Business School South Africa’s unemployment crisis continues to deepen, yet the country already knows where most future jobs are expected to come from. According to the National Development Plan (NDP) 2030, 90% of new jobs are expected to be created by small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs). These businesses already provide more than 9.2 million jobs and account for roughly 80% of t

Technology is bringing us closer to whale intelligence, but at what environmental price? Dr Cindy Friedman-van der Westhuizen is a lecturer in AI Ethics at Stellenbosch Business School Executive Development Every year, between June and November, whales return to South Africa’s coastline on their ancient migration from Antarctica to the warmer waters of the Indian Ocean. Their journey predates us. Long before shipping lanes, coastal roads or data centres, whales were already

Mens Health Month 2026 While women are more likely to be diagnosed with mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety, psychiatrists warn that men are far less likely to seek help, often delaying support until symptoms have already escalated into crisis. On average, one in eight men will have depression and one in five men will experience anxiety at some stage of their lives[i]. However, men’s mental health struggles often go unrecognised, untreated or are mask