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 | Thousands of South African women will register their concerns and demands to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP21) taking place in Paris, France from 30 November to 11 December... read |
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 | The fifth annual 24 Hours of Reality webcast event, hosted by The Climate Reality Project and Live Earth, will be broadcast live on 13 and 14 November from Champ de Mars in Paris with video footage from around the world, including special live footage from South Africa... read |
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 | The City of Cape Town has approved its new energy and carbon emissions targets. These targets will pave the way for the implementation of a long-term Energy 2040 Goal... read |
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 | The UK's Department for International Development (DFID) and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) have made $30m for research to better understand Africa's changing climate and the use of climate change information in decision-making across the continent... read |
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 | Chapel Street Primary School in Woodstock, Cape Town recently celebrated the first harvest from its new edible garden with a harvest table of dishes created by chef and ex-MasterChef contestant, Sue-Ann Allen... read |
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 | Statistics SA's recently released youth labour market report reveals that in 2015 as many as 3.6 million young people are unemployed and actively seeking work... read |
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 | Gaathier Mahed NGOs often punt the digging of wells as the solution to the long distances women in rural areas travel to collect water. These wells do improve the quality of life, but care needs to be taken in digging them as they could lead to the over-exploitation of aquifers... read |
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 | The Danish Royal Visit to South Africa from 2-4 November will coincide with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Denmark and South Africa's Ministry of Water and Sanitation... read |
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 | Malcolm Gray has been appointed as a non-executive director at Standards & Legal as from 1 October 2015... read |
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 | The global effort to end polio is receiving an additional $40.4m boost from Rotary to support immunisation activities and surveillance spearheaded by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative... read |
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 | Children have always been valued as Spur customers in their own right - and catered for accordingly - whether via play areas and Secret Tribe membership or themed parties and their own kid's menu. It is this particular menu that is currently being reworked to give South African children 'better for you' meal choices... read |
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 | Despite the many successes that have been made since the amalgamation of municipalities, more still needs to happen to transform the local sphere of government... read |
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 | The team and clients of Upton Properties, a real estate agency situated in Cape Town's southern suburbs, donned bibs and hard hats for a week-long Habitat for Humanity building project set to brighten the future of one fortunate family... read |
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 | The Theewaterskloof Municipality in the Western Cape has partnered with the Free Market Foundation (FMF) to bring the economic power of home ownership to black tenants deprived of dignity and rights under apartheid... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews It's not just ad agencies and their clients that win big at the Loeries... read |
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 | The renewable energy sector is forging ahead and generating growth with total investments in the alternative energy sector now standing at more than R200bn... read |
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 | TomTom is partnering with the Dutch Embassy on the up and coming House of the Future #CoCreate project where leaders and stakeholders will come together to generate solutions for shared challenges... read |
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 | The Our African City dialogue officially launched at the Institute of Municipal Engineering of Southern Africa conference in Cape Town on 28 October... read |
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 | Frans Pienaar, chairman of Inyatsi Construction, says although ecological innovation has contributed to sustainable development, it remains a challenge due to the prices of eco-friendly products... read |
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 | Two South African science graduates have been recognised as international Green Talent winners amongst a group of 27 global environmental visionaries... read |
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 | Extreme swimmers Andrew Chin and Henko Roukema had to abandon their quest to swim the length of the Berg River due to high water pollution and the low level of the river... read |
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 | The finalists for the Eco-Logic Awards 2015/16, hosted by The Enviropaedia, has been announced... read |
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 | The Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA) Eastern Cape Branch's waste management conference was held on 14 and 15 October in the East London Industrial Zone... read |
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 | Michael Wood There are a few fundamental practices that need a fresh approach if we are going to embrace a united African economy, something that will benefit the whole of Africa and not just us... read |
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