Concern over Kariba weed in dam In e-mail communications during the past two months, municipal officials said the delay in spraying was due to the supply chain committee that had to appoint a contractor. Journalist Monday, 18 January 2021, 10:02 Dean Chandler took this photo of the water at the Eden sewer pump station end covered in a thick carpet of Kariba weed.
GEORGE NEWS - Members of the Outeniqua Canoe Club, who regularly row on the Garden Route Dam, have been pressing George Municipality over the past two months to urgently spray the rapidly spreading Kariba weed on the dam and Kat River inlet.
As we face the realities of the climate crisis, the effects of which increase daily, the future looks bleak. Youth from all over the world are uncertain, we are scared of what our futures hold. Even scarier is the not-so-ridiculous possibility that we won’t have a future at all. However, the greatest horror is how world leaders have reacted to the climate crisis.
The science is clear and the facts are available in abundance. Their ignorance and apathy is deliberate.
In January 2020, my matric year, I began to boycott school every Friday, demanding that the South African government and the Department of Environmental Affairs declare a climate emergency. I sat outside the school gates, alone on the first day, in a desperate attempt to force them to listen.
Wednesday 12 February 2014 - 3:21pm
A map showing Eskom s non-compliant coal-fired power stations
JOHANNESBURG - South Africans living in Gauteng, Limpopo and Mpumalanga could suffer long-term respiratory health illnesses if Eskom wins a bid to be exempted from air quality laws, activists say.
Eskom is planning to submit applications to the department of environmental affairs to postpone the deadline for which they need to comply with minimum emission standards in the Naitonal Environmental Management Air Quality Act of 2004.
The Centre for Environmental Rights has drafted a legal objection to Eskom’s request on behalf of a number of environmental groups.
The legal objections are on the grounds that Eskom does not meet the requirements for a postponement as set out in air quality act, the 2012 National Framework for Air Quality Management in the Republic of South Africa (Framework), and the Atmospheric Impact Report Regulations.
· Completed, 21 June 2019, an independent initial inferred resource estimate ( IRE ) for the Star Zinc project in accordance with JORC 2012 · The IRE reports Inferred zinc resources with reasonable prospects of future economic extraction of approximately 500 000 tonnes at 16% Zn or 77 000 tonnes of contained metal above a cut-off grade of 2% Zn, including approximately 340 000 tonnes at 21% Zn for 72 000 tonnes of metal above a cut-off grade of 8% Zn · Raised £1,000,000 in placing, before expenses, to advance the Star Zinc Project and for general working capital purposes · Acquired unconditionally from BMR, the remaining 15% of the shares that the Company did not hold in Enviro Zambia Ltd, thereby increasing the Company s ownership in the Star Zinc Project to 95% with the Zambian government holding the other 5% Kashitu Zinc Prospect ( Kashitu )
First published by the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper
Garbage lines a muddy dirt road on the outskirts of Frankfort, Free State, leading to an old quarry, the town’s dumping site. A bakkie stops at the foot of the trash-covered hill to the quarry and offloads bags of refuse by the road. Another bakkie follows, then another.
The quarry floods when it rains and water trickles through the trash towards the Wilge River, a tributary of the Vaal River.
Rubbish lays alongside the banks of a stream that runs into the Wilge River. The rubbish comes from the Namahadi Township outside Frankfort because of the lack of refuse collections. Daily Maverick / Shiraaz Mohamed