Youth Leadership & Job Creation Award – Runner-up: SAIIA-Sasol Environmental Sustainability Programme
Domestic fires are the worst culprits when it comes to air pollution and dirty electricity is being touted as the answer.
More than 600 people could perish every year from illnesses related to air pollution when all Eskom’s power plants come on stream.
Respiratory illnesses are taking their toll on South Durban residents, but petrochemical firms deny culpability and won’t cough up for health costs.
A new report says platinum mines could have afforded to pay workers more.
Global institutions face losing their point if they continue to ignore people’s issues, warns civil society alliance Civicus.
Has the former police minister been sent to ministerial purgatory – the arts and culture portfolio? An upbeat Mthethwa doesn’t think so.
Nine months into his detention in Egypt, an Al Jazeera journalist on hunger strike has been removed from his cell and nobody knows his whereabouts.
Insurance claims and payouts are soaring as havoc wreaked by climate change in the form of violent storms, rain and hail continues to increase.
The science is in, and living in Cape Town and Durban will be impossible thanks to melting glaciers and an extra 4m rise in sea level.