Environment
Parks for the people: everyone needs green spaces
Urban South Africans use what little green space is available to them very creatively, and deserve more support
By Peta Brom, Ida Breed, Kristine Engermann-Jensen, Titilope Onaolapo and Maya Pasgaard
Opinion | 25 July 2022
Ramaphosa’s river clean-up boycotted
“I can’t hail Mandela Day when my children don’t have a future,” says Gqeberha resident
Brief | 19 July 2022
We won’t move, say Driftsands families living on floodplain
About 50 shacks have been moved to a safer site
News | 19 July 2022
Video: Building classrooms from plastic waste in Diepsloot
Local NGO turns plastic waste into eco-bricks
Video | 12 July 2022
West Coast breakthrough: environment activists and mining company reach agreement
Mineral Sands Resources has prevented legal action, at least for now, over its West Coast operations
By John Yeld
News | 21 June 2022
Half of South Africa’s sewage treatment works are failing
Green Drop report reveals scale of pollution but also clouds the picture
Feature | 21 June 2022
Volunteers gets their hands dirty to rescue endangered plants
“We should look like Namaqualand in the spring but because everything has been destroyed, it isn’t like that anymore.”
By Liezl Human
Brief | 7 June 2022
Picket outside Gqeberha court to stop Shell seismic study
High Court asked to set aside the Department of Mineral Resources’ decision to award a seismic exploration right to Shell
Brief | 30 May 2022
Court bid to stop seismic survey starts today
Shell’s attempt to explore for oil and gas off the Wild Coast was interdicted late last year pending the outcome of this hearing
News | 30 May 2022