Environment
Green Scorpions order City of Cape Town to sort out pollution in the Milnerton Lagoon
Refinery which usually uses effluent from the Potsdam treatment plant switched to drinking water because the effluent is too dirty
By Steve Kretzmann and Raymond Joseph
News | 4 November 2020
Makhanda community take City to court over poor waste management
“Our homes smell like sewage and rubbish” says resident
News | 30 October 2020
Slain mining activist to be buried on Friday
Community divided over challenge to expansion of mine adjacent to the popular Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park
By Fred Kockott and Matthew Hattingh
News | 29 October 2020
Fikile Ntshangase opposed a mine extension. Last night she was murdered
Violence on border of iMfolozi-Hluhluwe Game Park linked to fears of mass retrenchments
By Fred Kockott and Matthew Hattingh
News | 23 October 2020
“Massive” oil spill in Umbilo River
Environmental group says pipeline was meant to have been shut down in 2008
News | 21 October 2020
Environmentalists raise concern over polluted Durban river
High levels of E. coli detected, but that might not be the worst of it
News | 12 October 2020
Extinction Rebellion picket Standard Bank over oil pipeline finance
Protesters say the bank is contradicting its endorsement of the Paris Climate Agreement
By Zoë Postman
Brief | 9 October 2020
“There are no jobs - this is how we support our families” says Kleinmond poacher
Earlier this week there were violent protests after five local men were arrested
By Liezl Human
News | 8 October 2020
Top SA environmental research centre faces funding crisis
National Research Foundation is cutting back money for South Africa’s Centres of Excellence
By Sarah Wild
News | 7 October 2020