Biodiversity

Our wonderful wetlands need protection now

Article Martha Rojas Urrego - 14 Feb 2020

Humanity is amazed by our natural world but fails to value its importance to our survival

Africa must tell the rest of the world that we are not their dumping ground

Article Inger Andersen - 13 Feb 2020

The continent has long received more than its fair share of the world’s toxic waste, endangering the health of people who are exposed to it

Africa’s genetic material is still being misused

Article Keymanthri Moodley - 6 Jan 2020

Legislation as well as academic research governance bodies have failed to safeguard the rights of participants from Africa in genomics research.

Africa’s path to sustainable prosperity must move in step with environmental action

Article Joyce Msuya - 15 Nov 2019

The African Ministerial Conference on the Environment wraps up in Durban today. It will hopefully provide solutions that will have tangible effects

Repairing ecosystems is costly, but doing nothing is criminal

Article Bonani Madikizela - 24 Sep 2019

The international ecological restoration conference takes place in Cape Town next week

How we can restore our ecosystems

Article Scone Malone - 7 Aug 2019

To secure our long-term future, we need to move away from an extractive, transactional economy

Planet Earth: Declare an emergency

Article Ana Paula Aguiar, Odirilwe Selomane & Pernilla Malmer - 6 Jun 2019

Humans must urgently redefine a good quality life — and it should not include buying stuff

The fossil fuel industry is killing our future

Article Youth4climateaction - 18 May 2019

Allowing offshore hydrocarbon exploration betrays government’s compact with the youth

Unstoppable momentum of habitat loss could compromise sustainable life on Earth

Article Joyce Msuya - 7 May 2019

Tough decisions ahead for humankind, if we hope to save the planet

The fate of unique species in Tanzania’s coastal forests hangs in the balance

Article Neil Burgess - 8 Sep 2018

Tanzania faces the challenge of conserving forests in a developing country with a rapidly expanding population.

Woody plants on the march: Trees and shrubs are encroaching across Africa

Article Staff Reporter - 13 Aug 2018

Woody plants' cover has increased across large swathes of the continent in the past three decades

Deforestation in tropical Africa is not as bad as previously thought

Article Staff Reporter - 12 Apr 2018

Tropical deforestation can release a huge amount of carbon into the atmosphere, contributing to climate change

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Bishop Emeritus Rubin Phillip: The guerilla priest

Carlos Amato - 23 Feb 2020

From his adventures with Steve Biko to his support for shack dwellers in KwaZulu-Natal, Bishop Emeritus Rubin Phillip has always walked the talk of radical Christianity

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Tshwane water woes in court again

Sarah Smit - 21 Feb 2020

The municipality has been accused of deliberately derailing the contract to sort out toxic water crisis in Hammanskraal

National

Life in lockdown: Behind closed doors keeping out the coronavirus

Sarah Smit - 21 Feb 2020

South African students in China are staying behind closed doors due to the coronavirus outbreak

Press Releases

Response to the report of the independent assessors

IT Web - 17 Feb 2020

VUT welcomes the publishing of the report of the independent assessors to investigate concerns of poor governance, leadership, management, corruption and fraud at the university.

Press Releases