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Tapestries Exhibition at Tatham Art Gallery
06 October 2008
"Tapestries Telling Stories" exhibition at Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg. 19 September - 2 November 2008.
Africa!Ignite shines in iGagasi school competition
30 June 2008
Africa!Ignite transported educational resources to the isolated eSgananda school & challenged other KZN businesses to meet our pledge of support as part of an initiative of iGagasi 99.5 and the Department of Education.
30 April 2008
Africa!Ignite has entered into an exciting joint venture to extend our distribution footprint into the Eastern Cape. Our distribution network now reaches a total of 12,710 schools across KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape.
31 January 2008
In February and March 2008 Africa!Ignite's RAIN distribution network will distribute matric supplementary examination material to 360 centres across KZN.
04 December 2008
Africa Ignite has launched "IGNITE" - a range of craft pieces created in conjunction with MiET, crafters from KZN and design agencies around the province.
14 May 2009
Africa!Ignite has launched iThubalethu, South Africa's leading rural isiZulu newspaper. 40,000 copies have been distributed to schools and education centres in KZN.
Burning Bright: Extraordinary women of KZN
08 September 2009
Burning Bright was launched at the KIZO Gallery on National Women's Day. It is the first in Africa!Ignite's Voices of Africa series.
Championing youth in South Durban
08 June 2010
Africa!Ignite is contributing to the building of a positive youth culture in the South Durban basin in partnership with eThekwini Muncipality.
British charitable trust helps to make rural craft marketable
05 August 2010
Sarah Radomir of the SEM Trust hands over a cheque to Gcina Mhlophe, Africa!Ignite board member, to support collaboration between young black designers and rural crafters to develop new craft products that respond to current market needs.
Zulu beadwork tapestries take centre stage at global Christian conference
22 October 2010
Six stunningly beautiful beadwork tapestries were a focal point of the opening ceremony at Cape Town 2010: The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization and took centre stage in the main conference hall for the duration of the six-day conference.
Shocking, but sexy beads
11 February 2011
Africa!Ignite goes international with Beads Sundressed swimwear collection.
Book will share youths' hopes and dreams
05 May 2011
If youths of South Durban are made President of South Africa, they will take a hard line on crime and drug abuse, and will get rid of corrupt politicians.
Solar technologies benefit rural households
30 June 2011
It is not a common sight in deep-rural KwaZulu-Natal to see very pale women and men scrambling down river banks to fetch water.
Growing Fair Trade exports for KZN craft producers
12 September 2011
Acquiring more sustainable business in the EU market was the focus of the Return to Sender Producer Week in the Netherlands in August.
WOWZULU Marketplace wows tourists at Lake Eland in Oribi Gorge
28 October 2011
October 2011 saw the opening of the second WOWZULU Marketplace in the beautiful surrounds of Oribi Gorge in southern KwaZulu-Natal.
Two Exporter of the Year awards for Africa!Ignite
14 November 2011
Africa!Ignite has been named the 2011 winner of the KwaZulu-Natal Emerging Exporter of the Year award.

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