Despite recent heavy rains filling up four dams in the Algoa Bay water supply system, the large Impofu Dam is still less than 30% full, and the eight-year drought in Nelson Mandela Bay is not yet broken.
The men who murdered a respected Nelson Mandela Bay pastor brazenly walked right up to his vehicle parked in a busy street outside a primary school and opened fire.
It was a jumbo-size operation but all went smoothly and the Addo Elephant National Park has, for now, successfully reduced the pressure from its burgeoning pachyderm population.
Environment minister Barbara Creecy has implemented fishing closures in the waters around six African penguin colonies including two in Algoa Bay in a bid to save the species from extinction.