# C40 Cities says claims that South Africa’s coal-heavy electricity grid makes the adoption of electric vehicles premature are misguided. C40 is a global network of mayors of the world’s leading cities working to confront the climate crisis. C40 Cities senior programme manager for Africa, Prian Reddy, says mechanisms such as energy wheeling and the […]
# National Council of SPCAs has criticised the North West authorities’ refusal to incorporate essential animal welfare considerations into the management of the escalating elephant crises. The North West Department of Economic Development, Environment, Conservation and Tourism, and the North West Parks and Tourism Board ignored a parliamentary directive to include the NSPCA in the […]
# The Freedom Front Plus says the constant, large-scale illegal dumping of construction rubble and refuse in the Blue Sky settlement in Boksburg cannot be tolerated. Approximately 30 loads of construction rubble and refuse are illegally dumped in the area daily, with no consequences for perpetrators. The FF Plus’ Denise Janse van Rensburg says this […]
# The Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute is strongly opposed to Eskom’s bid for the extension of the lifeline for Koeberg nuclear power station’s Unit 2 in Cape Town. The power utility has applied to the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation to have the operating licence of Unit 2 at Koeberg extended for a […]
# Die GOOD-party sê hy ondersteun pogings waar munisipale verantwoordelikheid en betrokkenheid van die gemeenskap bevorder word, soos maniere om onwettige storting te pak en Kaapstad se openbare ruimtes skoon te hou. Anton Louw van die party sê die stad se jaarlikse lenteskoonmaak-veldtog is egter onsinnig gesien teen die agtergrond van sy strawwe skoonmaakheffing. Hy […]
# The GOOD Party says it supports initiatives that promote civic responsibility and community involvement, including efforts to tackle illegal dumping and keep Cape Town’s public spaces clean. The party’s Anton Louw says, however, the City of Cape Town’s annual #SpringCleanCT campaign is deeply disingenuous when viewed against the backdrop of its punitive cleansing tariff. […]
# Die DA in die Oos-Kaap het die voortdurende rioolbesoedeling van die onaktiewe Nursery-pompstasie in Aliwal-Noord ontbloot. Die party het onlangs ‘n oorsigbesoek aan die pompstasie gebring waar onsuiwer rioolafval gevind is wat direk in die Oranjerivier vloei en stroomaf die Gariepdam ook besoedel. Marina van Zyl van die DA sê onbehandelde rioolafval is ‘n […]
# Die burgemeester van Tshwane, Nasiphi Moya, sê aangesien die metro klimaatsensitief is, moet inwoners goed ingelig en opgevoed wees oor klimaatverandering. Die Stad Tshwane Klimaataksieplan is ‘n omvattende met die ambisieuse doel om teen 2050 ‘n stad sonder koolstof en klimaatbestand te wees. Moya sê die klimaat verander en die gevolge hiervan kan net […]
# The DA in the Eastern Cape says it has managed to expose ongoing sewage pollution caused by the non-functional Nursery Pump Station in Aliwal North. The party recently conducted an oversight visit to the pump station, where it found untreated sewage flowing directly into the Orange River, and pollution continuing downstream into the Gariep […]
