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Project Up, an initiative being trialled at recycling buy-back centres in South Africa is helping streamline the buying and selling of recyclable materials...

Apart from the devastation caused by the COVID 19 pandemic, more tragedy has struck with extreme flooding in four provinces and the destruction of buildings in the Parliamentary Precinct with the fire in January 2022.

On 2 and 3 July the Defend our Democracy campaign will hold a national conference to debate plans for rebuilding a South Africa that is in accord with constitutional values and free of corruption. It is inviting public comments on a discussion paper prepared for debate at the conference.

Allow me to begin by thanking the business representatives for their insightful presentations. 

President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Friday by focusing on service delivery and other challenges at a local government level, government could create a more conducive environment for business, investment and job creation.  Ramaphosa was speaking at the Presidential Imbizo, in Mpumalanga, adding that, when implemented effectively, the District Development Model (DDM) will narrow the distance between the people and government.

N the past two years, our people and institutions have been on the frontlines of a series of novel challenges and disasters such as CoVID-19, the July 2021 unrests and, lately, the floods in the KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape provinces.

Rainfall that caused flooding in KwaZulu-Natal in April was between 4% and 8% times more intense owing to climate change, analysis by climate scientists show.

South Africa is in the eye of the climate change storm, according to SALGA this is due to corruption, poor planning and infrastructure.

Poor planning, historic infrastructure issues and corruption has left SA communities and municipalities unprepared for the devastation the climate crisis can wreak on the country, according to an official at the South African Local Government Association (SALGA). During a webinar about the impact of climate change and changing weather patterns on society, Salga's advisor on climate change, Slindile Maphumulo unpacked whether municipal infrastructure is responsive to climate change. The webi...

Glad to see we're getting the important stuff sorted, then: Minister Dlamini-Zuma has finally passed her one-question geography test...