Affordable housing solutions can prevent flooding disasters
Each winter, areas in Cape Town flood uncontrollably. Formal and informal housing across Cape Town are subject to flooding. The worst affected areas are...
10 Historical Figures Who Were Vegan Before It Was Mainstream
Haters aside, the vegan movement has exploded so much over the past few years it’s almost mainstream. Interest in the plant-based lifestyle is as...
Climate change is not what South Africans see as their main...
Climate change is a major threat to food production, and is displacing people and increasing the risks to health globally. Addressing climate change requires...
‘We want a future’ 1976-2022: Error 404: System Failure
Senzeni na? What have we done? Indeed, what have black children done to be forgotten like this? Our ancestors fought against a despicable regime,...
Why the Mother City can’t accommodate its own football clubs
The City of Cape Town have expressed surprise at Cape Town City F.C. (CTCFC) coach Benni McCarthy’s statement of outrage regarding the team's upcoming...
#YouthDayParade: “going beyond social media streets”
The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation (AKF) Youth Activism Programme (YAP) is hoping to gather thousands of young people in Pretoria. This is to "reclaim the...
November 15 2022 is Day of the 8 Billion
On November 15, the United Nations is going to be marking Day of Eight Billion. This is because the world’s population is projected to...
Cyclone Idai & Kenneth Damage: How Climate Change Affects Children The...
Cyclone Kenneth and Idai both hit the Mozambican coast less than a month apart. The damage from both the cyclones wreaked havoc on the...
How South Africa can get communities involved in conserving coastal and...
Protected areas, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, are clearly defined geographical spaces set aside to conserve nature, ecosystem services and...
South African floods wreaked havoc because people are forced to live...
Rapid urbanisation and government failure to deliver adequate housing are among the driving forces behind the proliferation of informal settlements across South African cities...
Difficult Conditions Ahead For SA Farmers
Farmers across South Africa are warning the government they might not survive the current drought gripping South Africa.
What is a drought?
Defining the particular circumstances...
How We Could Have Stopped Climate Change, But Did Not.
In Nathaniel Rich’s Losing Earth he accounts for the past failures of politicians and others to stop climate change. Looking back at 1979, Rich...
Six ways you can prepare for the #CapeStorm
The South African Weather Service (SAWS) announced that a strong cold front will hit the Western Cape on the evening of 6 June. The...
COP27 explained by experts: what is it and why should I care?
COP27 is the 27th Conference of the Parties (countries) that signed up to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The convention was...
9 Changes You Can Make To Be More Environmentally-Conscious
The way you live has a profound impact on the environment. It affects the weather, the quality of air you breathe, the survival of...
Is Flying Worth The Environmental Cost? Greta Thunberg Says No
Greta Thunberg is currently sailing around the world. The 16-year-old climate change activist is heading from Sweden to the United Nations headquarters in New...
Greed And Politics Have Set Fire To The Amazon Rainforest
EXPLAINER
For days images of the burning Amazon Rainforest in Brazil swept social media. Amazon is the world’s largest tropical forest. Every year parts of...
Dear Young Person
Every year on the 16th of June we commemorate Youth Day, but hardly in the way it was intended.
On 16 June 1976, students in...
South Africa gets a seat at the table of a new...
South African Emmy award-winning cinematographer and director Lee Doig has collaborated with acclaimed international filmmakers to produce A Seat At The Table. The series...
Climate change will hit SA’s poor the hardest
South Africa has been facing some really strange weather patterns over the past few years with alternating periods of severe drought and heavy rains...
