# The United Nations Environment Programme’s latest report highlights four critical areas where environmental degradation intersects with human vulnerability. The Frontiers Report 2025 says legacy pollution, melting glacier microbes, undamming rivers, and climate risks could reshape life for millions unless urgent action is taken. UNEP executive director, Inger Andersen, says the report paints a vivid […]
# Experts are warning that alga from south-east Asia are becoming a major threat to biodiversity. Since May, local authorities in Cádiz, Spain, have removed one-thousand-200 tonnes of the alga Rugulopteryx okamurae from La Caleta, the city’s most popular beach. The alga attaches itself to rocks and other surfaces and is also free-floating, wiping out native […]
# The Gauteng Health Department says its One Clinic, One Garden initiative aims to turn clinics into spaces of nutrition, dignity, and empowerment. Last week, MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko handed over a vegetable garden at Kammeldrift Clinic in Roodeplaat, Tshwane. The department’s spokesperson, Motalatale Modiba, says the garden will provide fresh, healthy food to patients, staff, and […]
# The 12th South African International Ballet Competition, supported by the National Lotteries Commission, gets underway at the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town this week. The competition has three age groups: 9 to 12, 13 to 16, and 17 to 22, in both classical ballet and contemporary categories. This year’s jury members are from South […]
# Tshwane District Police Commissioner, Samuel Thine, says they will continue to strengthen their visibility in Olievenhoutbosch as part of Operation Shanela. This comes as 340 suspects were arrested over the weekend. Police spokesperson, Johan van Dyk, says the suspects were arrested for crimes ranging from murder, attempted murder, rape, assault and armed robbery:
# The Forum for South Africa says it has written to Gauteng Police Commissioner Tommy Mthombeni, requesting an investigation into the Pretoria West Police Station. Forum leader Tebogo Mashilompane says the probe is for possible corruption between police and foreign nationals, who hijack buildings, and also drug dealings in Pretoria West. He claims that police […]
# The DA in Johannesburg has criticised the Johannesburg Property Company board’s decision to retain two CEO simultaneously, saying this move raises serious red flags. The party says it has obtained documents confirming that the board extended former CEO Helen Botes’s contract by one month, despite her term officially ending in September 2024. The DA’s […]
# The Freedom Front Plus in Cape Town has accused the metro of gross negligence for dragging its feet in lodging a damages claim for the roof of the Cape Town Stadium. The party says the metro knew about the damage, which came to light during the installation of Cell C equipment, since 18 November […]
# The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union in Gauteng has expressed concern at the shooting of another police officer in Soweto over the weekend. It’s alleged that a police captain shot and killed his girlfriend, a fellow police officer, together with her brother, before turning the gun on himself during a birthday party in […]
