Fourteen environmental activists have been detained after protesting against electricity tariff increases and Eskom’s reliance on coal power.
Researchers say dung beetles climb onto their dung balls to cool their feet in the midday sun.
Cape Town is revising a pioneering programme that was meant to maintain and keep toilets clean and provide jobs.
Fifteen thousand South Africans are dying every year because of an economy based on burning fossil fuels.
Struggle stalwart, businessperson and former journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu died on Thursday morning.
For the 10% of South Africans that do not have access to piped water, diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases are life-threatening.
The mining must go ahead. Its pincers are tearing into a community that happens to live on top of land that holds precious minerals.
A new strain of drug-resistant bacteria has made landfall in South Africa.
China has agreed to work with the EU to create its own carbon trading system. This will create a large pool of funding for sustainable development.
In commemorating the 35th anniversary of the death of Steve Biko it is time to return to the politics of respect, consciousness and participation.