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Parks do more than cool cities. They also help people work together to cope with climate change, but only if local communities help design, manage and care for them.
Government must take food security into account when upgrading informal settlements like Slovo Park, says SERI
Young people in Bo City, Sierra Leone became youth climate leaders after turning a low-cost Climate Science Hub into a space for science-informed action.
The Mosselbank River Conservation Team aims to rehabilitate the river’s wetlands
A heritage assessment was rejected but the Western Cape Government will appeal
The Soulbent Project has dozens of residents converting dumping sites into vegetable gardens
With nearly one in five households being food insecure, activists call for urgent action
Memorials honouring the victims of the 1960 massacre are falling into ruin, but local activists are stepping up to improve the township
Companies like FoodForward SA and Ladles of Love are rescuing produce and redistributing it in vulnerable communities
Studies show 66% of UWC students and 65% of University of the Free State students are food insecure, but the issue is underreported due to stigma
Women farmers in KwaZulu-Natal have had to abandon their fields because the government has failed to maintain irrigation systems built in the apartheid era.
Summer water restrictions in Robertson and surrounding towns are not due to a lack of water
Performance in museums can be one way that an interest in history, and in turn wider societal issues, is cultivated from a young age.
The latest checklist of Table Mountain flora shows that Cape Town is still a global hotspot for threatened flowering plants.
More is needed than asking residents to use less. The municipality has to fix its sewage treatment plants.
Hydroponic farming is a good way to grow fresh fruit and vegetables in South African cities where high levels of unemployment and poverty make these unaffordable.
The water flows all year round in the historic canals under the city’s streets
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) condemns the proposed level 2 water restrictions that the Langeberg Local Municipality (Ashton, Bonnievale, McGregor, Montagu, Robertson) intends to implement from 1 February 2026 and regards them as completely unnecessary, counterproductive, and clear proof of poor planning and years of infrastructure neglect. The Municipality cites poor rainfall and empty […]
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People living on Transnet land were meant to be relocated in 2013. But the plan stalled when more people moved onto the railway tracks.
Hyacinth and sewage are destroying the Blowy wetlands
Helen Bowden Nurses Home, near the V&A Waterfront, was occupied in 2017
Short-term letting through various platforms, including Airbnb, locks up 70% of residential units in the central city
Renting a home close to the city has become unaffordable even for many middle-class households