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Directors Jason Jacobs and Devon Delmar push creative boundaries with Variations on a Theme
A poetic, genre-blurring film, Variations on a Theme excavates ancestral grief, memory and forgotten histories in a Northern Cape community still waiting for justice
Decades after asbestos ban, former miners continue to suffer deadly health effects
A new University of Cape Town study has found elevated mortality among former asbestos miners in South Africa, highlighting the long-term health consequences of asbestos exposure…
SA’s water crisis deepens: Nearly half of wastewater systems critical
The latest Green, Blue and No Drop reports show widespread deterioration of water and sanitation infrastructure. Nearly half of wastewater systems are critical, drinking water…
SA violent crime down, but still unacceptably high, Cachalia says
The acting police minister also stressed the need to tackle organised crime, which President Cyril Ramaphosa last week singled out as ‘the most immediate threat to our democracy,…
Questions over transparency in renewable energy land deals
Long-term leases turn public land into corporate profit, but it’s not clear how these deals are structured and whether communities are seeing their s
Steenhuisen confirms 274 foot-and-mouth disease cases in five provinces
Officials said South Africa’s phytosanitary and biosecurity requirements are world class and the department is awaiting bilateral trade agreements to be resolved to begin exports…
Critical futures: What SA wants from its transition minerals
With vast deposits of minerals that make South Africa a key player in the green energy transition, Andiswa Matikinca investigates the future that stakeholders want to see
Renewable Energy is key to achieving net zero objectives
A Northern Cape wind project provides a model on how South Africa can implement a sustainable renewable energy programme
The Water Research Commission expands its footprint in the Northern Cape
It’s an opportunity to formalise strategic relationships with key partners in the province for continuous WRC support
Police arrest 867 illegal miners in crackdown
SAPS says it has heightened visible policing over the Heritage Day weekend
Northern Cape municipality slapped with R10m fine for sewage pollution
Umsobomvu municipality pleads guilty, admits to receiving complaints from as far back as 2017
Mining Indaba: Africa sits in prime seat to benefit from minerals for renewable energies
The continent is rich in metals for the energy transition such as cobalt, copper, nickel, graphite, graphite vanadium and platinum group metals
Sewage pollution in the Northern Cape is killing the province’s lifeline – the Orange River
Criminal charges have been filed against the municipal managers of a number of towns for polluting the Vaal and Orange rivers
Mineral resources department and Mantashe yet to answer for alleged mine heist
The mineral resources and energy minister appears reluctant to defend himself in court
There are reasons South Africa is one of the most desired countries to relocate
The bad news headlines may be true but the good news is often overlooked