A court has ordered municipal authorities in Carolina to provide temporary water to residents who have now gone seven months without clean water.
Residents of Tiffindell Ski Resort in the Drakensberg say any new owners have to include the community if they want to succeed, writes Sipho Kings.
With its huge reliance on water and agriculture, Woolworths is vulnerable to any shocks in the supply chain.
Future water availability is one of the biggest threats facing people and business in South Africa.
Endless global conferences with progressively weakening outcomes are lessening hope that global temperature increases can be reined in at 2C.
Residents of a Carolina in Mpumalanga are taking the government to court after six months of waiting for their municipal water supply to be cleaned.
The global aim is to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, which are largely the result of burning fossil fuels.
The Rio+20 conference, like its predecessors, will betray the poorest people on the planet the most, writes Sipho Kings.
The Rio+20 text leaves one with little hope that a solution to saving the environment will be agreed upon, writes Sipho Kings.
The education programmes that should support young people’s quest for knowledge about sex are struggling, mainly due to teachers’ conservatism.