DepartmentForestry, Fisheries and Environment Key Goals 1. Improve overall audit outcomes: Not achieved 2. Implement recommendations of High Level Panel on Management, Breeding, Hunting, Trade and Handling of Elephant, Lion, Leopard and Rhino: Progress 3. Establish a Draft White Paper on Conservation and Sustainable Use of South Africa’s Biodiversity: Progress 4. Develop a game meat […]
DepartmentWater and Sanitation Key Goals Analysis Fourteen months into the job, Senzo Mchunu has sought to stabilise a department that has been a shambles for years, plagued by corruption and crumbling water infrastructure that has left taps running dry in many parts of South Africa. He has secured praise with his appointment of engineer Sean […]
There is no control programme for common mynas and popular rose-ringed parakeets because of ‘budget constraints’
The Eastern Cape high court finds the matter requires ventilation at the supreme court of appeal
The mineral resources and energy minister had refused to make them available to three civil society organisations
Heavy rains have submerged vehicles, trapped homeowners on roofs, collapsed walls, and decimated shacks and houses
Those at Hendrina and Komati coal-fired power stations say they don’t know what a just transition is
With pressure on the government to shift to clean energy, employees worry about their future
Residents living near coal mines in Mpumalanga say they feel left out of the just energy transition
As a mega-biodiverse country, South Africa has ‘special role’ to play in the negotiations