Environment
Hout Bay women turn plastic waste into colourful bags
“Each handcrafted product helps to keep plastic out of the environment and landfill sites”
Brief | 24 July 2025
Eastern Cape game reserves challenge wind farm approval in court
Game park owners and environmentalists say turbines will spoil scenic landscapes, damage tourism and threaten endangered birds
By John Yeld
News | 17 July 2025
Faith leaders call on Minister Dion George to back plan to reduce plastic production
African environment ministers meet in Kenya next week
By Rachel Mash
Opinion | 10 July 2025
SA’s national bird threatened as numbers crash
Blue Crane conservation status moved to “vulnerable” after steep population decline since 2010, with Western Cape’s Overberg region worst affected
By John Yeld
News | 1 July 2025
Open Secrets report: How big consulting firms are cashing in on the climate crisis
Multinational firms are benefitting from “just transition” funding while serving the world’s largest fossil fuel companies
News | 26 June 2025
Illegal enlargement of West Coast farm dam condoned
The Western Cape government has issued retroactive environmental authorisation for a dam project undertaken eight years ago
By John Yeld
News | 23 June 2025
In 10 years, there may be no more of these penguins
But protecting African Penguins’ food supply could reverse their decline, scientists say
Text by Liezl Human. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
Feature | 6 June 2025
Lesotho fishing company’s strange “error” on donations
Sanlei Premium Trout reported community donations of fish heads worth R2.9-million, but actually gave less than R450,000
News | 4 June 2025