Grace Black

Schools across the country competed in the annual Eskom EduPlant programme by greening their surrounds, reports Grace Black The winning schools in this year’s EduPlant permaculture awards designed projects to improve their environment and their quality of life. More than 350 entries were received from schools around South Africa. The winning schools were selected in […]

Pupils, teachers and parents are enjoying the benefits of permaculture, writes Grace Black Schools are able to grow vegetables to feed themsleves and their surrounding communities, and their work with nature is showing added benefits. Mentally handicapped children from the West Park School in Malvern, Durban, have started showing improved social behaviour since they started […]

Cathay Pacific brought learners from around the globe together to experience each others’ cultures, writes Grace Black Weddings under the stars with music, fancy costumes and delectable titbits. This was the scene in the Rustenburg Nature Reserve, in the Magaliesberg, recently when students from around the world performed mock traditional weddings. Students from countries like […]

An ambitious recycling campaign for a cleaner environment, reports Grace Black An initiative to collect discarded plastic bottles got underway in Gauteng last month at the start of World Environment Week. The programme will run for three years during which South Africa hopes to set an example to the world by collecting 5 000 tons […]

As winter approaches, the air around Alexandra becomes thick with smoke from the hundreds of braziers being used for warmth. But this year could see a change in how people from this area treat their environment. Children from the Ekukhanyisweni Primary School in Alexandra are hoping their efforts as environmental activists in their community will […]