How do you take an eyesore and an environmental liability and turn it into an asset that will have immediate economic benefits for the local community? Anglo Coal’s…

Activists in the Ekurhuleni municipality are claiming that informal settlements on the mining belt are being unlawfully demolished as a "clean-up" operation for the 2010 World…

Norway hopes to follow in Sweden’s footsteps by criminalising the purchase of sexual services. This would keep prostitution legal but make pimping or buying sex illegal. By…

Backsberg Estate Cellars in the Western Cape is bragging about its green credentials after becoming the first wine producers in South Africa to do a full carbon audit of its…

"In this particular month that it comes through, a 70c increase in the petrol price will probably push inflation up by 0,6%. If the petrol price had not increased, inflation…

We have been warned about pirated CDs and DVDs, but now — shock! horror! — watch out for illegal toilet paper. It may sound ridiculous, but it’s true. You might be buying illegal…

In a pleasant red-brick building, at the corner of two streets, is where you will find Dorah’s Ark, a soup kitchen in Roodepoort. Here Dorah Mazibuko (69) and her husband David…

A Soweto community has chosen to clean up and green their area and a Lonehill community has decided to start a recycling programme. Although these projects encounter some…