But prospecting licence moratorium won’t spare sensitive areas, environmentalists fear.
Farmers in Limpopo are setting up their own patrols to secure their district and gather intelligence.
Former environmental portfolio committee chair Langa Zita is set to become the next DG of the department of agriculture, forestry and fisheries.
Environmentalists have served an application to mining house Coal of Africa to stop activities at a proposed coalmine near Mapungubwe immediately.
More tender irregularities are emerging from the beleaguered Water Affairs Department.
As housing developments spread across the grasslands of Gauteng, insects are being pushed out of their homes. And when that happens, they fade away.
Whales and vegetation may be in danger if methane gas drilling goes ahead in southern Cape.
As the tabling of the controversial green paper on land reform is delayed, DG quits for ‘a career in education’.
The Auditor General’s investigation into the suspended water affairs Director General, Pam Yako, has opened a can of worms.
Accusations fly that Cydrick Mhinga used the community’s plush resort as his private palace.