25 April 2023, Johannesburg - South Africa is the latest Southern African Development Community (SADC) partner country to enter into an international development cooperation agreement with the German Cooperative Raiffeisen Confederation (abbreviated DGRV in German), an Apex Cooperatives Body in Germany with over 20 million members. GCRC has ties with more than 30 other countries, to provide consultancy and aid to develop cooperative systems and structures aiming at a sustainable development of the cooperative sector.

A now 90 year old beacon of hope for the blind and visually impaired community, in and around Cape Town, continues to stand strong in fulfilling its mission to provide a wide range of empowerment, educational, employment, and development services to children, the youth, and elderly persons who are born blind or come into visual impairment through various medical conditions and increasingly trauma related blindness.

The National Development Agency (NDA) is tasked with the responsibility of contributing towards the eradication of poverty in South Africa and its causes. The NDA in discharging its mandate, has to empower and enhance the capacity of the civil society sector. This ensures that the NDA helps to build more cohesive communities that are able to tackle the triple challenges of poverty, unemployment and inequality.