MUT Student’s No Plastic Water Purification Company
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Nkululeko Msomi, a 25-year-old final year chemical engineering student at the Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT) is the founder of a...
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...
The Rise Of Urban Farming In Johannesburg
Small farms and gardens have begun popping up all around the Johannesburg inner-city. The contrasts between the bustling urban environment and the greenery of...
Communities Join Hands To Assist KZN Floods Victims
Calls for aid relief for Durban Floods has been made, this after hundreds of people were left displaced by devastating torrential rains that swept...
Durban Floods: Devastation Lingers For Victims
Torrential rains have wreaked havoc in Durban this week, claiming lives and leaving hundreds of families devastated and destitute after homes were swept away...
Joburg Zoo To Get Second Elephant In Spite Of Public Outcry
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The Joburg Zoo continues to make unilateral decisions regarding Lammie the elephant’s future while the DA led City council turns a blind eye. The...
Mozambique Battles Cholera In The Aftermath Of Cyclone Idai
The damage from Cyclone Idai is still growing. The cyclone is labeled the deadliest storm to hit Mozambique in the last 30 years, according...
Cyclone Idai: Tough Press Laws Hinder Reporting From Mozambique
Cyclone Idai has devastated Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. The cyclone hit Mozambique's second-largest port city of Beira on March 14 before it had...
Understanding Load Shedding
UDPATE (16 October 2019): On Monday, Eskom announced that it would implement Stage 2 load shedding due to a "shortage of capacity."
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In an interview...
Rating Straws: The Daily Vox Edition
We tried every type of straw at our disposal for the love of turtles. In the past few years, the world has become more...
Lammie The Elephant Should Be Freed
Lonely Lammie the elephant lives all by herself at the Johannesburg Zoo. Her partner of 17 years, Krinkel, passed away of unconfirmed causes last...
The Green Party: Third Time Lucky?
The Green Party of South Africa has undergone a complete leadership change and is now back to contest the 2019 national Elections. Part of...
The Dagga Party: How Cannabis Can Unlock The Economy To The...
Unlocking the legislation criminalising cannabis in South Africa can completely transform the economy, according to The Dagga Party of South Africa also known as...
Gwede Mantashe Invades Xolobeni
"It felt like it was the first or second world war. We asked ourselves what the need for so many police was," Nonhle Mbuthuma...
Why You Shouldn’t Support Captive Lion Breeding
Captive lion breeding is a cruel but legal practice that still happens in South Africa. Lions are bred in private farms where they are...
After The Police Teargas Came The Stillborn Baby
"He was going to be our first son. His father always talked about how he will take him to work with him and leave...
The Kendal Power Station Is Poisoning The Air We Breathe
A plume of thick grey smoke hangs over the Kendal power station, situated 40 km west of Witbank in Mpumalanga. (And about 110 km...
Your Palm Oil Consumption Is Killing Orangutans
This weekend a heartrending video that showed how palm oil growers wreak destruction on a baby orangutan's rainforest habitat went viral on social media....
Wits Project Aims To Create Sustainable And Healthy Eating On Campus
Tucked into an inconspicuous corner of West campus at the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) is the Wits Food Garden - a beautiful area filled...
In Photos: Gauteng Celebrates The Jacaranda Season
Every year from late September to November some of the trees in Johannesburg and Pretoria turn a vivid lavender. That's when we bid farewell...
