South Africa: Dams Full, Taps Dry - How Nelson Mandela Bay Lost Control of Its Water

Large parts of Nelson Mandela Bay have been without water for up to 20 days, while teams scramble to restore electricity outages that have lasted for more than two weeks. Read more »

South Africa: Five Hearty Winter Warmers, With Plenty More to Come

TGIFood is going to be looking after you this winter. To kick off, here's a quintet of ideas for fireside suppers. Read more »

South Africa: Extreme Rainfall Is Here to Stay - - the Right to Education Must Not Be Swept Away

What is required, if the unqualified and immediately realisable right to basic education is to be safeguarded, is not simply better ad hoc responses to extreme weather events but a… Read more »

South Africa: Gift of the Givers Steps in As Cape Town Deluges Flood 26 Informal Settlements

The intense storms that struck the City of Cape Town and surrounds over the past 48 hours have caused flooding in at least 26 informal settlements, leaving homes damaged,… Read more »

South Africa: Madikwe Reserve and the Normalisation of Killing Elephants

A willingness to kill elephants as a management tool in North West's Madikwe Nature Reserve suggests a shift in South Africa's conservation approach. What was once a last resort… Read more »

South Africa: Overflowing Kouga Dam Leads to Evacuations Along Flooded River Valley

Heavy rains have pushed Kouga Dam to overflowing, forcing evacuations in the Gamtoos River valley and leaving a trail of devastation in agricultural areas. Read more »

South Africa: NMB Council Meeting Collapses As Leadership Vacuum Derails Flood Response Briefing

A Nelson Mandela Bay council meeting convened to brief councillors on flood damage and emergency response collapsed after disputes over the absence of an acting city manager,… Read more »

South Africa: Severe Weather Warnings Prompt School Closures Across Western and Eastern Cape

As an intense cut-off low-pressure system triggers Orange Level 8 warnings, education authorities have suspended classes in high-risk districts across these provinces. With severe… Read more »

South Africa: More Storms Expected in Waterlogged Nelson Mandela Bay

Inclement weather has strained municipal services, infrastructure, private businesses and most residents across Nelson Mandela Bay - and the clouds have not yet parted while… Read more »

South Africa: Energy and Water Seta Blew R58m in Public Funds On Building That Was Never Used

More than R58-million in public funds has been lost on an unused building bought by the Energy and Water Sector Education and Training Authority in 2014. Despite years of spending,… Read more »

South Africa: Dry Tap Reality - the Growing Water Infrastructure Crisis in SA

In all provinces in the country, unreliable supply, unsafe water and prolonged interruptions expose systemic failures and weak oversight. Read more »

South Africa: No Water At Ramaphosa's Soweto Family Home and Surrounds for Nearly a Week

For nearly seven days, taps in Chiawelo, Protea, and parts of Dlamini ran dry - an inconvenience reaching even President Cyril Ramaphosa's Soweto family home. Joburg Water said it… Read more »

South Africa: Burst of Floral Life Is a Beautiful Bonus of Devastating Overberg Wildfires

Rarely seen, endangered fire-dependent species of flowers are blooming in the Western Cape's Overberg region in the wake of wildfires, and botanists and citizen scientists are… Read more »

Africa: How War Weaponises Environmental Destruction and the Case for Legal Accountability

This is the second article examining the environmental cost of modern warfare. The first article in the series explored war as a powerful, compressed engine of pollution. Here we… Read more »

South Africa: Majodina's Ultimatum to Municipalities - Deliver, or We Will Intervene

Minister of Water and Sanitation Pemmy Majodina says the time for talk is over, vowing that municipalities that fail to properly manage water and sanitation will bear the… Read more »

South Africa: Nelson Mandela Bay's Water Management Under Fire As Kouga Calls for Dam Control Transfer

The Kouga Municipality has asked that the Department of Water and Sanitation transfer control of the Kromme bulk water system from Nelson Mandela Bay to Gamtoos Water to improve… Read more »

South Africa: Reflecting On Decades of Joy As I Say Farewell to the Two Oceans Marathon

South Africa's incomparable ultra-marathon runner Bruce Fordyce will miss the Two Oceans Marathon for the first time in four decades. Read more »

South Africa: Leaking Pipes, Filthy Rivers and Health Risks Exposed in South Africa's Latest Water Report Cards

South Africa's water purification and wastewater treatment plants continue to crumble, wasting dam-loads of clean water, polluting rivers and raising health risks. Read more »

South Africa: How South Africans Are Using High-Tech to Rewrite the Rules of Wildlife Conservation

South Africans are playing a pioneering role in harnessing drones, artificial intelligence and other digital tech tools to reshape wildlife conservation management -- and to reduce… Read more »

South Africa: Western Cape Adds 20 New Nature Reserves in Major Conservation Boost

Most of the newly protected land comes from private owners, signalling a shift towards stewardship-led conservation across the province. Read more »

South Africa: Gold Fields' Relocation Project Adds to Scientific Insights Into Chinchillas

The need to move a colony of the wild rodents at a mine in Chile is resulting in scientific studies and a deeper understanding of the species. Read more »

Africa: Living With Danger - How Moral Dilemmas Shape Conservation in Africa

Living with wildlife in Africa comes with real danger - and tough moral choices. A growing body of research shows that the voices of the people living alongside lions, elephants -… Read more »

South Africa: How Community-Municipality Partnerships Can Alleviate SA's Water Crisis

Water service delivery is in crisis. In rural and other marginalised areas, community-municipality partnership is a vital -- and overlooked -- part of the solution. Read more »

Africa: Why the President Needs to Stop Efforts to Scupper South Africa's Carbon Tax

A robust carbon tax keeps more revenue in South Africa and encourages local companies to reduce product emissions to improve competitiveness in international markets, and it aligns… Read more »

Egypt: Nile Dam Dispute Drifting Toward a Conflict Its Protagonists Cannot Afford

For centuries Egypt has treated the Nile as a birthright, not a shared lifeline. Now, as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam rises without a binding agreement, the river has become… Read more »