# Today marks the eighth Global Recycling Day, raising awareness of the importance of recycling, and encouraging individuals and organisations to take concrete actions to reduce waste. This year’s theme is, Celebrating the power of the Seventh Resource, a term used to describe recycled materials. According to the Global Recycling Foundation, 2.1-billion metric tons of […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has proclaimed the Climate Change Act, which became effective on Monday. However, not all provisions of the Act have come into operation. This is due to the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment developing a set of regulations that will enable the implementation of these provisions. Minister Dion George says the […]
# Die dodetal in die tornado’s en hewige storms wat die sentrale en suidelike Verenigde State die naweek getref het, het tot minstens 40 gestyg, met tientalle beseerdes. Plaaslike nuuskanale het beeldmateriaal uitgesaai van dakke wat afgeruk, bome wat uitgeruk word en vragmotors wat in sterk wind omgeslaan het. Agt mense is dood in ‘n […]
# The death toll from tornadoes and violent storms that ravaged the central and southern United States over the weekend has risen to at least 40 people, with dozens more injured. Local news channels across the affected region showed video of roofs torn off homes, trees felled, and trucks overturned by high winds. Eight people […]
# Suid-Afrika se aanvraag vir elektrisiteit het in 2024 aanhou daal as gevolg van die vinnige groei in privaat sonkraginstallasies. ‘n Nuwe verslag deur die Wetenskaplike en Nywerheidnavorsingsraad dui aan dat die spitsaanvraag met een-persent gedaal het na 33,5-gigawatt, terwyl algehele energie-aanvraag met drie-persent gedaal het. Teen September verlede jaar was meer as ses-gigawatt privaat sonkrag […]
# South Africa’s electricity demand continued to decline in 2024 due to rapid growth in private solar installations. A new report by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research indicates peak demand fell one-percent to 33.5-gigawatts, while overall energy demand dropped three-percent. By September, over six-gigawatts of private solar was installed, easing reliance on Eskom. […]
# Die Departement van Water en Sanitasie het kalander-snuitkewers in die Hartbeespoortdam vrygelaat om watervarings aan te pak. Die kalanders word in samewerking met die Nasionale Navorsingstigting en die Rhodes-universiteit van Amerika ingevoer om suurstofvlakke in die water te help herstel. Die adjunkminister van Water en Sanitasie, Sello Seitlholo, sê die indringerplant het in Januarie […]
# The Water and Sanitation Department has released weevil insects to tackle the invasive Salvinia minima plant at Hartbeespoort Dam. Imported from America in collaboration with the National Research Foundation and Rhodes University, the weevils will help restore oxygen levels in the water. Water and Sanitation deputy minister Sello Seitlholo says the plant caused fish […]
# The DA in Gauteng het die besluit van die Departement van Water en Sanitasie om die Morninghill vleiland en die opvangsgebied naby die Jukskeirivier skoon te maak verwelkom. Leanne de Jager van die DA sê ‘n vergadering met die adjunk-minister van die departement, Sello Seitlholo, het gelei tot planne om die vleiland amptelik te […]
