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What’s moving across the Group

Partner-ready milestones from Feed · Educate · Empower — Foods, Big Five Learn, Connect, Direct and the full Big Five network.

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Children gather with a volunteer under a Big Five Foods gazebo

FeedEducateEmpowerGroup15 Nov 2026

Projects are live: donors and NPOs, join us to feed, educate and empower

bigfivegroup.africa now has Projects. Donors can fund Big Five Foods™ meals for feeding, educating and empowering projects and follow every gift from payment to delivery on their own dashboard. NPOs and NGOs can list for free, add their projects and receive donated meals, with impact reported automatically.

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November 2026

A shipping container painted as the South African flag, with Big Five Foods roundels, beside a white minibus taxi at a taxi rank

FeedEducateEmpowerFoods · SANTACO

05 Nov 2026

Where the taxis stop, nutrition and connection arrive — Big Five Foods containers with SANTACO and Vodacom

Big Five Foods, with SANTACO and Vodacom, is launching containers at taxi ranks: food and water, work, Vodacom Wi-Fi and Super-Cube® learning where people already gather. The plan is a phased rollout toward 15,000 containers.

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October 2026

The SupplierAdvisor® home page on a laptop browser and a phone, showing the headline, the Register your company button and supplier ratings

EmpowerConnect · SupplierAdvisor®

07 Oct 2026

Found, verified, trusted and paid: SupplierAdvisor® as a system for empowerment

Access to markets is empowerment. SupplierAdvisor® helps African SMEs, suppliers and buyers get found, verified, trusted and paid, across B2B, B2G and B2C.

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Dr Craig R. Muller, founder of the Big Five Group, packing Big Five Foods samples for the East Africa team

FeedEducateEmpowerEast Africa

07 Oct 2026

Feeding, educating and empowering East Africa: our next chapter

Building on our work with partners in Somalia on school feeding, Big Five Group is looking to expand into Kenya and the wider East Africa region, guided by one mission: Feed. Educate. Empower.

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September 2026

EmpowerRoyal

21 Sept 2026

Bayede! Celebrating His Majesty at the AmaZulu Kings Golf Cup

Big Five Group sponsored His Majesty King Misuzulu kaZwelithini’s AmaZulu Kings Golf Cup at Zimbali Lakes in September 2026.

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FeedEducateEmpowerRoyal

12 Sept 2026

A partnership in progress with the Zulu Royal Household

Big Five Group is in the process of partnering with the Zulu Royal Household to feed, educate and empower the Royal Household and their communities. The agreement is not yet signed.

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