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The City of Cape Town is making it progressively less affordable for ordinary residents to live here, by choice, while its own books show it doesn't need to.
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Researcher warns of threat to the Okavango Delta
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) is not satisfied with the explanation offered by the Rand West Local Municipality (Randfontein and Westonaria) for the prolonged power outages affecting the rural communities of Randfontein. According to the ANC-controlled Municipality’s public notice, some residents have been without electricity since the last week of March after at least […]
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Africa’s clean energy funding would work much better if projects could borrow on fairer terms, and have longer to pay back loans.
When up to 3.5 million small businesses go green, this will benefit South Africa’s environment and help the businesses survive in a changing climate.
Solar energy can cut costs and pollution for South African households, but fear of theft holds people back. Shared mini-grids offer a safer, affordable alternative.
Eskom’s plans to cut power to 14 indebted municipalities expose a deepening crisis in South Africa’s state-owned electricity provider.
About 600,000 beneficiaries are still without the new card
South Africa’s largest gold producer went to court to win the right to use its own solar power.
Exactly one year after the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) warned that Eskom could cut electricity supply to the Ekurhuleni Metro due to power debt, official documents now confirm that the situation has deteriorated even further. According to the latest correspondence from the City Manager, Kagiso Lerutla, Ekurhuleni currently owes Eskom more than R3,58 billion […]
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The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) rejects the Mbombela Local Municipality’s (Mbombela/Nelspruit, Barberton, Hazyview, Kaapsehoop, Skukuza, White River) proposed 11,6% electricity tariff increase for the 2026/2027 financial year. This increase is unjustifiable and needlessly puts further financial strain on residents and businesses already struggling to make ends meet due to the high cost of living. […]
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The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) strongly condemns the Johannesburg Metro’s intention to force residents with prepaid meters who have invested in solar power to switch back to conventional meter readings and billing systems. Should the ANC-led Metro administration proceed with this plan, it may be time to approach the courts. This amounts to consumer […]
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Two interventions show what can and what can’t be done
Swiss investigative outlet claims Nestlé is misrepresenting sugar content
Dangerous climate tipping points will threaten food, water and coastlines. They’re irreversible and only radically accelerated climate action can stop them now.
It is well known that Johannesburg receives most of its potable water from the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, via the Vaal dam, but there is another equally voluminous inter-basin water transfer scheme that feeds into the Vaal, called the Thukela-Vaal Transfer Scheme. It is one of the country’s great feats of engineering, incorporating an underground …
The case settles a longstanding question: how does a civil marriage affect a couple’s earlier customary marriage?
By studying antelope fossils, researchers can revisit long-standing questions about how the Cradle of Humankind’s environment evolved through time.
The agreement, which governs how millions of grants are paid, was supposed to lapse on 30 September
Rather than spend hours at a clinic, patients measured their own blood pressure
While sanctions aim to punish regimes, they often punish citizens instead.
Global Plastic Treaty reached a deadlock in August, but South Africa is pushing ahead with regulations
The organisation marched under close police supervision in Mitchells Plain on Sunday
More than 75% of Postbank’s clients have moved to private banks