December 18 2020 / Modified on December 18 2020 South African telecom operator Telkom has launched Buy Back Centers. These centres are designed to encourage residents of Khayelitsha, a township in the Cape Town metropolis to recycle their waste.
The Department of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning of the Western Cape, the City of Cape Town and Distell have launched an initiative to encourage the people of Khayelitsha to recycle their waste. For the record, Distell is a global company with roots in South Africa. It produces and markets brands of alcohol. In its 2017 Sustainability Report, the company already expressed concerns about plastic waste management. Distell continues to explore ways to increase the deposit rate of its bottles. The company is also exploring the possibility of establishing small black-led companies to help collect and recycle waste.
The Southern Cape will once again have additional air support from its Denneoord Emergency Airbase.
GEORGE NEWS - The George municipal fire and rescue services are ready for the fire season, which officially runs in the Western Cape from December 2020 to March 2021. The municipality s own fleet is well equipped and the Southern Cape would once again have additional air support from its Denneoord Emergency Airbase, said George fire chief Neels Barnard.
A chopper, two spotter planes and three water bombers will serve the Garden Route district from the airbase during the 2020/21 fire season. Over the past few years George has invested in state-of-the art equipment and vehicles to address a wide range of fire scenarios, including a first-of-its-kind large capacity water tanker and portable dam for remote areas, a specialised tractor to clear vegetation and a hazardous materials unit to deal with toxic materials at vehicle and factory accidents. This, comb
Energy company Longyuan providing more than just power to Northern Cape communities
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The interventions outlined in the Economic Recovery Plan are meant to achieve sufficient, secure, and reliable energy supply within two years. President Ramaphosa addressed the parliament about this plan in October.
Longyuan South Africa Renewables, a subsidiary of China Longyuan and China Energy, which is world’s largest wind power developer, has recently issued and published its first corporate social responsibility report in South Africa, with contents: China Energy in South Africa, management of sustainable development goals, our pace of green electricity in the decade, China constructed the dream of South Africa, responsibility-sharing, win-win cooperation, etc.
White Shark’s Absence From South African Hotspot Spells Ecological and Economic Uncertainty Key ocean predator’s disappearance from Dyer Island Nature Reserve is impacting everything from conservation efforts to the local tourism industry. Petro Kotzé
December 10, 2020
The Dyer Island Nature Reserve, which lies roughly 8 kilometers off the South African coast near Gansbaai, has historically been
The largest predatory fish in the ocean, the species is already in steep decline: Its global population has dropped an estimated 30 to 49 percent since the late 1800s, earning the white shark a “vulnerable” designation on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List.