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What a sustainable Covid-19 recovery could look like

Coronavirus Oluwaseun Oguntuase - 9 Aug 2020

Bioeconomy — using renewable biological resources — will allow Africa to transform its systems and create a viable economic future, global warming

Climate science’s blind spot for heat waves in southern Africa

Africa Bob Berwyn - 5 Aug 2020

The lack of detailed information on extreme heat impacts hinders disaster response and preparedness.

It’s time for a Green New Eskom

Environment Climate Justice Coalition - 4 Jun 2020

A better future for all South Africans is possible if we pursue a swift path to renewable energy

It’s time for a Great Reset of capitalism

Coronavirus Klaus Schwab - 3 Jun 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic provides a chance to reflect on, reimagine and reset the global economic system

Covid-19 clarifies climate crisis

Coronavirus Olivia Macharis & Nadim Farajalla - 14 May 2020

Unlike the virus, there is no treatment for global warming except to immediately abandon economic activities that cause it

Review: ‘Planet of the Humans’ is a mess. You should watch it

Friday Jordan G Teicher - 14 May 2020

The new documentary on the future of our planet, executive produced by Michael Moore, fails on a number of fronts. But believers in green growth could still learn from it.

Pandemic gives us a last chance to avert climate – and social – catastrophe

Article Bruce Baigrie - 16 Apr 2020

As Covid-19 upends life, it has taught us critical lessons and offers an opening to confront other crises. Political will is required, of course

Covid-19 has a silver lining

Article Jeff Rudin - 1 Apr 2020

The outbreak and the response to it is showing us that many things are possible, including the provision of water to waterless municipalities

Southern Africa’s dangerous information gap exacerbates natural disasters

Article Masego Madzwamuse - 27 Mar 2020

During Cyclone Idai, responses were hampered by a shortage of reliable information. This has worrying implications for dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic

Dear EFF, it’s time for radical renewable transformation

Article Alex Lenferna - 4 Mar 2020

The party’s vision for Eskom seems to be one designed to benefit vested interests rather than the greater good

The green economy – a win-win strategy for South Africa

Analysis Rethabile Melamu - 2 Mar 2020

On a provincial level, programmes such as Gauteng’s The Innovation Hub are helping to create green economic growth

Floods in Ireland: A postcard from the edge of the climate crisis

Analysis Sipho Kings - 28 Feb 2020

It seems that politicians aren’t paying attention to the floods, fires and droughts spinning our world out of control

The commons, not the market

Analysis Katie Kedward - 28 Feb 2020

Greening the financial system is essential, but the environment can’t be shoehorned into the logic of finance

The Year of the Locust

Africa Simon Allison - 21 Feb 2020

About 25 years ago, Baldwyn Torto and his team taught themselves to talk to locusts. Now, Simon Allison brings you the story of the swarms eating their way across the continent

Countering climate denialism requires taking on right-wing populism. Here’s how

Article Richard Calland - 15 Feb 2020

Global cooperation is essential if climate action is to be effective, amid the right-wing onslaught against multilateralism

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Justice department hit by a costly cyberattack

Sabelo Skiti - 30 Sep 2020

The theft of R10-million from the Guardian’s Fund account prompts the justice department to freeze all accounts until an audit can determine the extent of the damage

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Sabelo Skiti - 30 Sep 2020

Businessman Edwin Sodi and senior civil servants are among those arrested over the R200-million theft of state funds

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Eastern Cape MEC sues activist for defamation

anna majavu - 30 Sep 2020

“The province’s member of the executive council for transport Weziwe Tikana-Gxothiwe is suing a United Front activist for Facebook posts he made that she says paint her as corrupt.”

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